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What is SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)?
SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is a network monitoring tool within the broader SolarWinds ecosystem. It includes core traffic monitoring features, as well as customizable traffic reports and alerts.
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What is SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)?
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) allows the multi-vendor monitoring of network traffic flow records, the discovery of traffic patterns, and avoidance of bandwidth hogs. As an add-on to SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), NTA helps optimize spend on bandwidth by better understanding the who and what of bandwidth consumption boosting your network traffic analysis capabilities. Trace and monitor bandwidth usage of application or protocol patterns over months, days, or minutes by drilling down into any network element supporting a variety of network traffic flow standards (NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, IPFIX, and NetStream). Gain real-time deep Network Insights for Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto to identify critical issues quickly all in one easy to use interface.
NTA’s core features include bandwidth monitoring, application traffic monitoring, network traffic analysis, malicious traffic identification, performance analysis, and error root cause identification. The product also offers customizable traffic reports and alerts, including measuring the effectiveness of traffic prioritization policies. It is designed to integrate with other SolarWinds monitoring and management products.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Features
- Supported: Tightly integrates with SolarWinds NPM providing valuable insights into network bandwidth consumption.
- Supported: Monitor bandwidth use by application, protocol, and IP address group. Collects and analyzes flow data from multiple vendors, including NetFlow v5 and v9, Juniper® J-Flow™, sFlow®, Huawei® NetStream™, and IPFIX.
- Supported: Application traffic alerting, alerts you if an application traffic suddenly increases, decreases, or disappears completely.
- Supported: Analyze network traffic patterns over months, days, or minutes by drilling down into any network element.
- Supported: PerfStack™ cross-stack network data correlation. Accelerate identification of root cause by dragging-and-dropping network performance metrics on a common timeline for immediate visual correlation across all your network data and NetFlow analytics.
- Supported: Advanced application recognition allows you to identify which applications and categories consume the most bandwidth for better network traffic visibility with NBAR2 support.
- Supported: Customizable network traffic reports at your finger tips. Create, schedule, and deliver in-depth network traffic analysis and bandwidth reports with just a few clicks.
- Supported: Monitor Wireless LAN Controller traffic to keep tabs on applications and clients utilizing bandwidth on your wireless network.
- Supported: Cisco Meraki wireless traffic monitoring.
- Supported: CBQoS policy optimization measures the effectiveness of pre- and post-policy traffic levels per class map to determine if QoS policies are working as planned.
- Supported: Malicious or malformed traffic flow identification with port 0 monitoring.
- Supported: Network Insight™ for Palo Alto Networks® includes collection of flow from Palo Alto firewalls to show flow through nodes and interfaces
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Intuitive User Interface: Users have consistently praised the intuitive and easy-to-operate user interface of the services. Many reviewers have stated that they found it simple to navigate through the system, making tasks easy to perform.
High Level of Customization: The Network Bandwidth Analyzer's level of customization has been highly valued by users. Numerous reviewers have expressed their appreciation for being able to create customized views, reports, and alerts tailored to their specific needs. This feature allows users to personalize the tool according to their requirements.
Detailed Bandwidth Information: The NetFlow Traffic Analyzer component has received praise for providing detailed information on bandwidth usage and capacity planning. Several users have described this feature as invaluable for forensic tasks. They appreciate having access to in-depth insights into network traffic, which helps them effectively manage and troubleshoot issues.
Confusing and Not Intuitive User Interface: Many users have found the user interface of the software to be confusing and not intuitive, making it difficult to navigate and perform tasks quickly. The lack of clear organization and unintuitive design elements has been a common frustration among reviewers.
Lack of Specific Packet Details: Customers have expressed a need for more specific packet details and additional information on web traffic. They desire more granular insights into individual packets, such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, protocols, and payload data. This level of detail would enable them to better analyze network traffic patterns and troubleshoot issues effectively.
Unintuitive Alerting Setup: Setting up alerting on bandwidth levels has proven to be unintuitive for users. It requires navigating through multiple menus and options, which can be time-consuming and confusing. Reviewers suggest streamlining the process by providing clearer instructions or a more intuitive interface specifically tailored for configuring alerts based on bandwidth thresholds.
Users have recommended using Netflow Analyzer for visibility of network data transfer, traffic monitoring, and bandwidth usage. They suggest trying the free trial of Netflow Traffic Analyzer for 30 days to experience its features. Users also recommend Netflow Traffic Analyzer for managing switch and router configurations, as well as pushing config changes to multiple devices. According to them, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the best tool available for monitoring network traffic and they appreciate its solid performance. Users find NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to be a cost-effective solution for collecting netflows and a great addition to existing toolsets. They emphasize its compatibility with other SolarWinds products and regular updates. Additionally, users recommend checking if Netflow Analyzer meets specific needs before purchasing, as there may be more advanced and affordable options available. They suggest trying the evaluation version to see its benefits and conducting a proof of concept to test it in a network environment. In summary, users find SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to be a useful and easy-to-use tool that delivers on its promises, making it suitable for companies with large networks and organizations of all sizes.
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September 02, 2020
SolarWinds NTA Review
- Monitor interface's network bandwith
- Traffic patterns
- Enhance bandwidth before outages occur
- Bring down the price
- Tighten up CBQoS
- Enable Linux equipment
August 24, 2020
Best visibility into your network flows!
- Integrates well with Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and other SolarWinds tools
- Combines multiple data streams into a single user-friendly graph format.
- Provides complete visibility into the network traffic flows.
- Requires a good amount of DB resources in order to function smoothly.
- Web interface needs to be refreshed to include more interactive charts and graphs.
- Lack of troubleshooting methods
August 04, 2020
SolarWinds - Very strong windy Netflow Tool
- It gives bandwidth information on interfaces basis.
- Helps in identifying any system if infected and team can isolate that endpoint.
- Denial-of-service can be identified and stopped. One of the key aspects again.
- Reporting and integrating with other tools like NAC solution.
- Can adapt ML/AI going forward.
- Auditing can be improved and self analysis within tool itself.
July 14, 2020
SolarWinds NTA
- Traffic passing.
- Isolate user data.
- Integration.
July 09, 2020
NTA : Great Netflow analyzer in Solarwinds suite
- Good integration with other SolarWinds modules (NPM, NCM, IPAM, etc.).
- Easy to install and use.
- Auto discover of interfaces.
- Troubleshooting is not easy in cases of NTA problems.
- Static interface.
- Not easy to cross data between nodes.
April 24, 2020
SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer
- Monitoring & Alerting
- Documentation
- Visualization of traffic and executive level reporting
- Would like to see additional enhancement to the web interface
April 24, 2020
Found the Perfect Flow
- Monitoring Network Bandwidth is the best feature we see in this tool as its detailed insights help us in allocating bandwidth to users correctly.
- It can be deployed very easily, efficiently and quickly. We deployed it in a few hours at our organization.
- It is good at finding Hosts or IP addresses that communicate more or frequently in the network.
- The dashboard is a little complex for a layman to understand. I remember when I was new to this product I had a difficult time in understanding the traffic patterns.
- Technical Support Assistance is quite complex and difficult to obtain and it has a lot of room for improvement.
- Training material is not easy to find. More training videos would be appreciated.
March 20, 2020
SolarWinds NTA at a glance
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer gives network packet drops.
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides very good stats on routers, firewalls, etc.
- It helps us analyze the network flow very well.
- Every thing regarding SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is manual.
- We need to put a lot of things together on our own while debugging issues.
March 06, 2020
NTA will help give you an ideal view of bottlenecks and help you find a solution quickly!
- Very friendly dashboard to show basic users and upper management network results.
- Can help the troubling problem of "everything is slow" and help give some answers to the root cause.
- Can eat up a lot of resources and get slow at times.
- Somewhat pricey but you get a lot for your buck.
February 14, 2020
Desktop Technician's View of SolarWinds
- Provides up to date, real time network statistics.
- Shows node outages for pinpointing issues.
- I don't have any suggestions.
February 10, 2020
NetFlow in education flow
- User-friendly dashboard.
- Metered at a glance statistics.
- Phone app integration.
- AD integration for 801.x port utilization.
- One day we were having complaints about one of our sites. The internet was very slow. SolarWinds NetFlow helped us to see why it was slow. It was due to a computer that was getting re-imaged.
- Helps us to find the culprit who is hogging the network bandwidth.
- It has been hard to set it up to collect autonomous system conversations.
January 21, 2020
SolarWinds Netflow
- Detailed
- Accurate
- Database slow to load feed
- Overly complicated to set up SolarWinds in general
January 18, 2020
SolarWinds Network Traffic Analyzer - You need it!
- Monitor Traffic over time
- Alert when there are issues
- None
December 20, 2019
Helps to provide a total view of your enterprise
- Overall database system health monitoring is a quick check for incident management.
- Database dashboard view is very helpful for starting detailed issue analysis.
- The package could do better with actual transaction level monitoring
- If you are using a mainframe, your options for monitoring are very limited
- It allows you to have visibility of the volume of traffic that is going through your infrastructure.
- The possibility of remedying events that may be affecting the infrastructure.
- Control of the different media analyzing the type of traffic that passes through the critical points.
- We have difficulties in areas such as other platforms that find it difficult to interpret the results.
- There are areas such as Data Center where it is not considered as a primary tool in their work.
- The results that this tool can provide are not considered in the budgets of critical areas.
- Intuitive GUI
- Easy to add equipment to the product
- Ability to assign where equipment is actually located on a map
- Sometimes the GUI gets very slow and the server needs restarted
- Notifications are sometimes a little lagged for unknown reasons
- Ability to customize the GUI more would be nice
- It provides visual alerts that indicate a possible problem, or high latency.
- It allows us to drill down to see one-on-one conversations.
- NTA provides granular details on bandwidth consumption and latency.
- I have no negatives to address at this point.
November 17, 2019
Network Analysis with SolarWinds- You get what you pay for.
- Monitors traffic for internal and external circuits
- It just works
- Very large install footprint depending on how much data is being captured
November 14, 2019
Occasional User of Netflow
- It can provide details on a particular link in terms of network utilization and traffic flow.
- SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer can be difficult to set up and requires correct settings on router interfaces at egress points.
- It works with most Cisco devices, but I have had difficulty setting it up on other vendor's equipment, e.g., Fortinet
November 10, 2019
Network Traffic Analyzer: Network Engineer's best friend!
- This software helps us analyze bandwidth spikes in detail which helps us capacity plan for site moves or expansions.
- This software helps us monitor user activity.
- This software helps us monitor application traffic to a granular level by setting up pie charts and bar charts.
- We use this software to alert the incident management team of circuit cuts or node unavailability thereby engaging the NOC team asap.
- NTA could use a good PDF download feature. Right now, we cannot download pie charts in PDF format.
November 04, 2019
Catch the hog before it sucks up all your resources! SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is the answer.
- It is very easy to set up the endpoints for Netflow; SolarWinds can take flow data from any configurable network device. I use a sFlow configuration on Brocade and NetFlow configuration on Cisco; both sources dump and report just fine into SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer.
- I absolutely love the traffic analytics that are produced; the graphs are very important when talking to management, as pictures seem to tell a thousand words.
- SolarWinds Netflow does a great job collecting and reporting about my what network bandwidth is being used for and by whom. I had no idea that I moved as much data around until I started gathering Netflow data.
- Once you have a baseline picture of data and data movers, you can start picking up on antimonies in your live environment. Applications causing congestion are generally the culprits.
- I am having a difficult time coming up with any specific recommendations to make SolarWinds Netflow better. I love the fact that the community of users from SolarWinds drives product development. I am a member of the Solarwinds THWACK community and have found so many useful resources and templates. The users drive the success of the product… what a concept!
September 18, 2019
Netflow Traffic Notes
- End-user application
- The protocols that are using too much bandwidth
- Traffic reports
- Good layer 3 network views
- Well, one thing that needs to be offered should be layer 2 capabilities such as VLANs, etc.
- Pricing can be a little better for licensing
- Should make it a stand-alone, no modules installation
August 31, 2019
Flow of your life.
- Flow information. It knows where your devices' traffic is.
- Create reports.
- Manage devices with an easy way to see the flow.
- They need to improve how to handle Layer 2 flow.
- There are user interface issues.
August 29, 2019
Analyzer gets the job done
- Real time
- Alerts
- All-in-one solution
- More Features
- Price
- Initial setup can be overwhelming