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SolarWinds NPM

Overview

What is SolarWinds NPM?

SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.

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A highly recommended network management tool.

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 15, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use SolarWinds NPM to monitor our whole borough (200+ sites). We use it on a daily basis to manage, monitor, and audit our entire network infrastructure. It keeps us one st...
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Engineer
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)6 years of experience

Easy, Big and Mostly Reliable Network Performance Monitoring for Large Organizations

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 4, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our company uses SolarWinds NPM to monitor the health of our network and servers. We have thousands of devices and it's very helpful to know which are functioning properly in ...
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Verified user
Technician
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)5 years of experience

NPM is a great tool for your networking team!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 21, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We choose to use SolarWinds because the legacy Monitor tool was not cover some areas/alerts/vendors. Also, we were looking for a tool able to identify and act in some alerts. ...
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Fabio Silva
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Network Engineer
Fexco
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)6 years of experience

SolarWinds NPM brings all your Network Tools into a single Toolbox

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 8, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to monitor the availability and performance of our networks across 15 geographically dispersed sites. This includes network...
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Jesse Bridgelal
Manager - Information Technology
Network Architect
Ministry of Health
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)4 years of experience

If you're looking for advanced monitoring, NPM has it - but it falls short

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 14, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We essentially use it to monitor our network devices - switches, routers, firewalls, ETC. We have our uplink interfaces monitored as well so that we can see usage and report o...
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Curt Sminkey
Engineer - Information Technology
Network Engineer
Widener University
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)7 years of experience
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Pricing

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NPM

$1,638

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.solarwinds.com/products/pric…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Why I Recommend SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

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Features

Network Performance Monitoring

A network performance monitoring system monitors the entire network for performance problems and collects performance data such as network traffic analysis performance bottlenecks, etc.

8.2
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is SolarWinds NPM?

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) delivers comprehensive network fault monitoring and performance management that scales and expands with a company's network monitoring needs. Users can collect and view availability, real-time and historical statistics from routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and any other SNMP-, ICMP-, or WMI-enabled devices directly from a web browser.

The vendor states that SolarWinds users can get a full NPM installation up and running the same day they download, and that implementation does not require a team of consultants. NPM provides visibility into the health of network devices and servers on the network, ensuring that users have needed real-time information to keep their network running at peak performance.

Network Performance Monitor helps IT Pros:

  • Detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues and avoid downtime
  • Respond to multiple condition checks, correlated events, and device dependencies
  • Automatically calculate capacity exhaustion dates using customizable thresholds based on peak and average usage
  • Streamline network troubleshooting with a Web interface
  • View paths to critical business services hop-by-hop, even into the cloud, with the NetPath™ feature
  • Get deeper visibility into complex network devices with Network Insight™ features for Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco Nexus switches, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers

SolarWinds NPM Features

Network Performance Monitoring Features

  • Supported: Automated network device discovery
  • Supported: Network monitoring
  • Supported: Baseline threshold calculation
  • Supported: Alerts
  • Supported: Network capacity planning
  • Supported: Packet capture analysis
  • Supported: Network mapping
  • Supported: Customizable reports
  • Supported: Wireless infrastructure monitoring
  • Supported: Hardware health monitoring

Additional Features

  • Supported: Seamless conversion upgrade to AIOps-powered Hybrid Cloud Observability
  • Supported: Multi-vendor device support for any router, switch, firewall, VPN concentrator, wireless access point and other devices that support standard protocols
  • Supported: Intelligent alerts for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations of device states
  • Supported: Insight on hardware health by monitoring, alerting, and reporting on the state of key device sensors
  • Supported: NetPath for hop-by-hop monitoring of critical business services, on-premises or into the cloud
  • Supported: Network Insight for Cisco Nexus switches, F5 BIG-IP load balancers, Cisco ASA firewalls

SolarWinds NPM Screenshots

Screenshot of Network monitoring software used to reduce network outages and detect, diagnose, and resolve multi-vendor network performance issues.Screenshot of See relationships for routers, switches, interfaces, volumes, and groups, updated automatically without user intervention to maintain the network, not network maps.Screenshot of Reduce visibility gaps into critical network switches, firewalls, and load balancers with Network Insight for Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASA, and F5 BIG-IP.Screenshot of Reduce the flood of unnecessary network alerts. Create alerts based on simple or complex nested trigger conditions, defined parent/child dependencies, and network topology.Screenshot of Identify dead zones and improve wireless coverage. With its network monitoring tool, users can access out-of-the-box wireless reports, including wireless availability and rogue access points.Screenshot of Configure alerts by calculating dynamic baseline threshold data with network performance monitoring software.

SolarWinds NPM Video

Network Performance Monitor overview

SolarWinds NPM Integrations

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SolarWinds NPM Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Windows® Server 2016; SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 SP1 SQL Server 2017 (including installations on Linux)
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.

LogicMonitor, OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi), and Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management are common alternatives for SolarWinds NPM.

Reviewers rate Alerts and Hardware health monitoring highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of SolarWinds NPM are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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SolarWinds NPM Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 07, 2019
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used by our infrastructure team only. It is used for our back office and production networking equipment for performance monitoring/tuning.
Pros
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Relatively easy to set up SNMP traps, summary, and graphs.
  • Good change management tool for network changes.
Cons
  • Better wireless heat maps.
  • Needs better Netmap services.
  • Relatively expensive.
Likelihood to Recommend
Solarwinds is excellent to monitor networking equipment in any environment. Easily discoverable and tunable for reporting and management of VLANs, load balancing, wireless, errors, etc.

NPM in PNW!!!

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
December 08, 2020
JE
Jayson E. Conry
Lead Monitoring Engineer
Cambia Health Solutions (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
7 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My company currently uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to monitor the entire organization's network hardware both physical and virtual. We have multiple regions across the Pacific Northwest. It has been very supportive of all of our processing that ties into third party vendors' SaaS processes and appropriately triages any and all issues within the internal network and external tunnels.
Pros
  • Network Mapping. The Network map is an absolute must for any multi regional organization that requires a holistic view of how the networking SLAs are being met.
Cons
  • Network Atlas should be a process added to the console instead of having to access it to build the maps on the servers.
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Nexus switches are better suited for NPM than most other tools.

Solarwinds NPM is Great!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 11, 2018
BH
Brett Hallahan
Systems Engineer
Western Stone & Metal (Retail, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Solarwinds NPM within the Information Technology department as a way to identify highly utilized ports and devices, along with tracking down end-user device usage, and the possibility of end-users abusing service such as music streaming, video streaming, social media in general, etc. It has allowed us to troubleshoot, enforce policies, and complete capacity planning for the company.
Pros
  • Showing the top-10 talkers is extremely helpful when hunting down bandwidth issues and hogs on the corporate network. This has assisted in resolving connection issues for many locations at once.
  • Interfaces with high percent utilization has been a very large help with a NOC view that I have built, along with identifying devices that may be misbehaving (e.g. completing a backup outside of the schedule), along with end-user network usage.
  • The switch stack view showing errors, discards, and usage also helps in troubleshooting network issues and improving performance via hunting down issues prior to end-users experiencing loss in performance and/or connectivity.
Cons
  • Getting to a map involving a device can be a bit cumbersome, as you have to go into the device's page itself to pull up a map. Being able to go into a map section and look up a device would be a great help; just an idea for an improvement.
Likelihood to Recommend
NPM is great in environments that have a lot of interconnected devices and/or sites. An MPLS network is a great example, as it allows us to view, monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the network and its connectivity between disparate sites. It wouldn't be a great value-add for non-local sites, or very small organizations that have one or two switches and/or routers. It also doesn't work extremely well with Cisco Meraki, as the access provided by Meraki to those devices doesn't allow for network heat maps, or similar.

Best Network Monitoring Tool out there

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 27, 2022
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are a University with 13 locations with 2 employees monitoring all locations inclusive of over 300 Switches and 200 Servers that host various apps. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor allows us to monitor all devices from one console including switches, routers, servers, and even printers. It allows us to monitor for hardware errors and bandwidth issues which is a major help in troubleshooting errors and planning for the future. I use it to view all of the switches and apps and ensure everything is up and functioning at just a glance.
Pros
  • Monitors all the switches
  • Alert when a network device is down
  • Monitor bandwidth usage across the network
  • Monitor Hardware health on devices
Cons
  • Bandwidth monitoring could be improved, when creating a map we need to either show bandwidth usage or interface speed. I would like to see both
  • Wireless heat maps could be improved. It only works with certain vendors
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is well suited for large organizations with many devices. I appreciate the fact that I can monitor all of our devices very easily. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is great at detecting hardware errors allowing us to react and replace devices at the first signs of hardware errors. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is great at monitoring bandwidth usage which helps determine which links are saturated and allows us to respond and rectify the problem.

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides clear insight and usable information

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 31, 2022
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides advanced features to monitor network devices, firewalls, access points. It becomes easy to track such issues and resolve them within business objective timelines through the use of email alerts. The tool allows you to create custom dashboards and organize our data in ways that benefit our organization. The SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor also allows our staff to identify network bottleneck issues quickly which in turn results in faster problem resolution times.
Pros
  • Provides real-time network performance data
  • Customized reporting
  • Easily create WiFi heat maps
Cons
  • Cost when scaling can get expensive
  • Would like to see tighter integration between SolarWinds products
  • GUI could be streamlined more
Likelihood to Recommend
The WiFi mapping tool is very helpful. This piece was very helpful as we separated employees throughout the enterprise and allowed us to maximize spending when determining the placement of wireless nodes. We also used SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to monitor endpoints and troubleshoot network traffic issues with server traffic. Also, it is well suited to relay beneficial capability when under pressure to alleviate these types of issues.
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