Still Best Network Monitoring Solution Overall
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds is used internally for our own infrastructure as well as for customers. SolarWinds is been used as the core network monitoring solution suite which does end to end network monitoring and provides visibility around each site and location's network infrastructure for any fault and performance. It also does IP Address Management, Voice Call Quality Monitoring and Netpath Services monitoring for SaaS applications like Office365.
Pros
- NetPath Services Hop by Hop ANalysis
- Netflow Monitoring
- Network Devices Configuration Backup and Configuration Push
- Voice Call Quality Services
Cons
- Support for more call infra provider vendors
- Cloud Network Monitoring
- Event Management
- Predictive Intelligence using AIOps and ML
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited Areas -
1. Network Fault and Performance Monitoring
2. Network Devices Configuration Backup and Configuration Push
3. Netflow Analysis
4. Call Quality Monitoring for Cisco and Avaya
5. Users Ports Management
6. DSN/DHCP Monitoring
7. Alerting and Integration
Not Well Suited -
1. Predictive Intelligence based Alerting or data analysis
2. REST API Based Monitoring.
3. SD-WAN Monitoring
