SolarWinds NPM Reviews & Ratings 2023

Name: SolarWinds NPM: Your Complete Network Monitoring Solution
Uploaded: 2018-05-31T14:27:19.000Z
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Description: Network Performance Monitor overview

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Starting at $1,638 per year

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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.

Network monitoring made easy using SolarWinds NPM

8 out of 10

December 01, 2022

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is being used effectively throughout our organization. It's being used across different regions of …

SolarWinds NPM brings all your Network Tools into a single Toolbox

8 out of 10

September 08, 2022

We use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to monitor the availability and performance of our networks across 15 geographically …

Single Window Network Performance Monitoring

10 out of 10

May 31, 2022

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is used in various ways for us as well as other organizations that we support. Various use …

An honest review of SolarWinds NPM from a Network Operations Manager at a major US Airline

10 out of 10

April 26, 2022

Our corporation uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to monitor all of our networks/endpoints for outages that may affect …

Complete network monitoring for large organisations

10 out of 10

April 18, 2022

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is used to monitor all network devices (switches, routers, firewalls,...), manage SLAs and …

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

8 out of 10

April 15, 2022

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 …

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

6 out of 10

April 14, 2022

We essentially use it to monitor our network devices - switches, routers, firewalls, ETC. We have our uplink interfaces monitored as well …

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - Know Your Network

9 out of 10

April 06, 2022

We utilize SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to monitor device health at all layers of our network (switches, routers, wireless …

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides clear insight and usable information

9 out of 10

March 31, 2022

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides advanced features to monitor network devices, firewalls, access points. It becomes easy to …

NPM is a great tool for your networking team!

10 out of 10

February 06, 2022

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 …

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Review

9 out of 10

February 01, 2022

For several years, our organization has continued to utilize SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) for around the clock performance …

Not impressed but not disappointed either.

7 out of 10

January 31, 2022

It is used to monitor the availability of critical systems of the infrastructure such as Active Directory, DHCP, and servers in remote …

Reveal Positive Solutions to Hidden IT Issues with SolarWinds NPM!

8 out of 10

January 28, 2022

Someone knew. But no one knew who. NPM let us regain control of the who knew and turn it into a measured responsibility. Our Company now …

Best Network Monitoring Tool out there

10 out of 10

January 27, 2022

We are a University with 13 locations with 2 employees monitoring all locations inclusive of over 300 Switches and 200 Servers that host …

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM): A Great Tool Including NetPath

8 out of 10

January 26, 2022

SolarWinds Network Performance (NPM) is used to monitor the health of our switches and other network devices, from several brands …

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How SolarWinds NPM Differs From Its Competitors

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We haven't used this feature as of now, but going further we should, because these kinds of features from NPM will help us to monitor the network proactively.

Health Check

Yes, this feature has helped us a lot. But it is only once a year where we can utilize this option. We would like to have it 3-4 times a year or at least 3 times a year.

Upgrade Assistance

We haven't used this since we don't have Enterprise Support.

Netpath creates a visual diagram of the path a packet travel to get to a destination of where it may become lost. It helps to quick analyze network performance issues and can be very useful in troubleshooting Quality of Service issues which often affects Voice traffic on a network. It can be used …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

NPM Network Insights provides a view into your Network Devices such as Firewalls and Load Balancers from within the NPM platform without having to log into the device separately. This is very useful for central monitoring and alerting and can help in creating a single pane dashboard that displays …

Other Tools

We also utilize PRTG Network Monitor for more in-depth network analysis and Root cause analysis. PRTG also provides more in-depth monitoring for Servers and applications and can provide a very well organized dashboard of Benchmarks and Performance indicators. Solarwinds works well for our general …

Approach

Having a single approach to monitoring various networks is very beneficial to centralized monitoring. Having all the information you need presented in a single dashboard or portal helps to pinpoint issues quickly without having to move from one platform to another and try to correlate information. …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

NetPath has been a very useful tool for our teams as well as other organization team members to help troubleshoot "network-related" issues. With the hop-by-hop path analysis, we are now able to check for "service availability" rather than just "server reachability". Additional information provided …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We use Network Insights for quite a few solutions: Cisco Stackable switches Cisco ASA Firewalls Palo Alto security solutions F5 Load Balancers Cisco Nexus Switches Cisco API The Network Insights feature greatly benefits us as these "intelligent widgets" get all "the vendor-specific information" …

Other Tools

In conjunction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), we also use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Network Configuration Manager, IP Address Manager, and User Device Tracker. In a few of our installations, we also have Voice & Network Quality Monitoring. All the above solution sets …

Approach

Today's infrastructures are no longer confined to on-premise setups. The infrastructures are gradually moving into Private and Public clouds. This makes the Hybrid IT infrastructure very flexible for users - be they working from home, working from a VPN, or working from the office. This …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

Our organization uses Netpath when we need a deeper look at a network's connectivity such as traceroutes. With the use of this tool, we can visually see where a network may be impaired so that we can more quickly resolve the issue with ISPs.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Being able to monitor your network equipment's health is very critical to resolving problems in a timely manner. With the use of NPM insights, you can easily see system resources such as RAM or CPU usage which can easily help you resolve certain types of network impairment issues.

Other Tools

We use SolarWinds NTA and NCM in addition to the NPM product. We also use 3rd party tools such as Ping Plotter Pro or Wireshark, and even Bacon.

Approach

It is very important to have a single approach to monitoring your hybrid environment and SolarWinds NPM can definitely help. NPM has a single console that can view many different types of hardware and is invaluable to our organization.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We're using Netpath to monitor end to end network paths and it's really useful.
This feature can be used by non technical users as it's very simple (green = OK, yellow = warning, red = problem) and graphical view it's very user friendly.
It's missing option to edit node names and sometimes it's …

Other Tools

We looked to some opensource like Zabbix or Cacti but it's not enough entreprise class. Also one of our subsidary was using PRTG but it's missing a lot of features to be really as efficient as SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor for network devices.

Support Staff

When Solarwinds was compromised, we received full details about issues and support was available to help implement a workaround.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We have quite a few cloud-hosted applications and have set up NetPath to monitor these connections so we can confirm and react to issues with these services before major outages occur. We have used this many times to pinpoint where the fault lies in a connection to a cloud service and it's been …

Other Tools

No, we are not using any other tools to monitor cloud apps.

Approach

It's very important to have a single pane of glass, as the time and money associated with having multiple ways to monitor resources are cumbersome.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We have not looked into this because we have a similar product with our network equipment manufacturer that does the same thing. We didn't really have the time to go through all of our network devices to change the port mirroring to send the packet information to 2 separate solutions. We've …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We are not using this feature. In fact, this is the first time I am hearing about it.

Other Tools

We are also using Extreme Management Console to monitor lots of our switches because we can also perform backups and upgrades within this product.

Approach

I think it would make things a LOT easier if we had one product to monitor our entire infrastructure however at the moment, we have about 6 or 7 (maybe more) different products monitoring our infrastructure. There is a lot of time to keep all of these up to date and operational as opposed to …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

Although we have not utilized NetPath Services to necessarily identify potential problems, it has been useful to visualize the flow of traffic across our network and out (like a beefed-up traceroute). This is a relatively new feature in our environment that we will be exploring more as we continue …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We have not utilized any Network Insights capabilities at this time. We will, however, be considering this functionality for our core network components to gain further visibility inside our network.

Approach

Monitoring our environment from a single pane of glass is ideal. It promotes spending more time focusing on the critical components that make up our network and less time learning and maintaining a melting pot of software. Having customizable dashboards, and being able to quickly find the …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

This feature has allowed us to hop by hop analysis along critical network paths. This has afforded us an opportunity to identify issues before our users realize what is happening. It allows us to identify the impact of every hop in a comm path. This is a helpful tool when we are migrating services …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

The insights feature has resulted in less manual troubleshooting because we can automate firewall monitoring. The tool also allows staff to easily manage ACLs, through clean back-ups and review history. You can also manage/view components in a single page view, which assists in troubleshooting …

Approach

Having one tool certainly brings benefits to the monitoring discussion. It usually leads to better integration, less overhead, and slimmer budgets. It usually provides for a single pane of glass and less real estate used when displaying the data.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

Netpath is a great tool to discover problems in the LAN/WAN layers. We are using this tool when needed to test new circuits, a diversity routing/patch, and/or measure the stats during a maintenance window.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We are using Network Insights for Palo Alto Firewalls. with that we are able to get stats from Global Protect users and VPN connections.

Other Tools

We are using NPM together with other Solarwinds products such as NTA, NCM and SAM

Approach

We are trying to establish some standard tools and then create standard procedures to help the team, so having a single monitoring tool is helping us to achieve this goal.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

Our organization has benefited greatly by SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) NetPath feature which enables visual analysis, and analysis along critical network paths for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. NetPath aides problem solving by automatically creating a map of the …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Our organization is relies heavily upon SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) features and tools such as Network Insights which reduces visibility gaps into critical components like network switches, firewalls, and load balancers health and performance. The great benefit of configuring it …

Other Tools

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is the primary product in use to monitor on-premise and cloud infrastructures/ applications.

Approach

It is extremely important and critical to have a single approach to monitoring hybrid environments (On-premises, cloud or multi-cloud). SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is the reliable, durable, and dependable network monitoring tool designed to deliver comprehensive network fault …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We used NetPath to visualize the path of packets taken for the PSTN Skype service hosted on the other side of the country. We also used NetPath to see the path taken by different ISPs to the same destination. We're able to access performance based on the number of hops due to the path taken.

Approach

Very important. A single approach reduces costs associated with licensing and hardware, and skills.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We use the NetPath capabilities of Network Performance Monitor to visualize and capture when changes to routes affect services that are open to our Subscribers. By proactively monitoring these pathways, we are able to identify when we need to switch network paths to alternative service pathways to …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Our infrastructure has been overhauled to eliminate single points of failure under different conditions and scenarios. We have leveraged the use of Network Performance Monitor to simulate "what-if" conditions to enhance operational pathways of communications with redundant interconnectivity. With …

Other Tools

We are not a hybrid house. What might be used to leverage cloud infrastructure is being used to monitor our on-premise virtual appliances and data infrastructure. In writing this review we realize that there is a promise for monitoring both on-prem IT assets and infrastructure as well as …

Approach

Whether by a single approach or a single pane of glass, unified monitoring allows the NOC and engineering staff members to take in the whole picture without omitting the details. This is of greatest benefit when a hybrid staff is responding to events that interrupt even a single Subscriber. With a …

Support Staff

During installation and setup, there were many changes that I did not recognize. I was able to call and get straight to a support technician, who immediately was able to get a support engineer on the phone with me to walk through the installation and customization for our unique network …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

It is a feature we have not used in production, but we have tested and plan to implement it.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

SolarWinds Network Performance is used to monitor the health of our network devices and servers. We use it to monitor when devices are offline as well as when interfaces are down. We also use it to monitor interface bandwidth on devices to identify potential issues and respond to them before it …

Approach

It is very important to us to have a single approach to monitoring the hybrid environment as we have only 2 staff members to monitor 13 locations with several hundred network devices and servers. We have a physical server, in-house virtual servers, and cloud servers. Without SolarWinds Network …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

SolarWinds NetPath is a very good feature to monitor network environments across several sites and locations. SolarWinds NetPath automatically generates the network path and gathers information about devices in the network path. This is very useful information for monitoring our inter-site …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to view bandwidth utilization of our network switch interfaces to verify if we need to upgrade performance for branches that have higher utilization. Our organization has benefited a lot from this tool and because of this, we are able to identify …

Approach

It is very important to us to have a single approach to monitoring our on-premises environment as we have limited staff. Having all of our monitoring for servers and applications in one place allows us to save time and spend more time designing and engineering new technology and improvements for …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We have not taken full advantage of NetPath at this time.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Out network administrator has used this in a limited way.

Approach

Helps us become more familiar with the tools at hand and more efficient at using them.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We have configured net path multiple times but it not very user friendly.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Our organization has benefited a lot from this tool and because of this we are able to identify whether the issue is due to an issue in the network, or the server or the application.

Other Tools

We are using SolarWinds Pingdom to monitor our Saas based applications and their uptime and downtime and availability with when the application goes down and when it gets restored.

Approach

Very important. It helps us avoid using multiple tools for multiple environment monitoring under one single platform.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

It is a feature we have not used in production but we have tested and plan to implement in the near future.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

SolarWinds Network Performance is used to monitor the health of our Cisco switches, Cisco routers, Aruba switches and Fortigate firewalls. We use it to monitor when devices are offline as well as when interfaces are down. We also use it to monitor interface bandwidth on devices to identify …

Other Tools

We do not use any other tools as all the research we did in the past pointed to SolarWinds being the best.

Approach

It is very important to us to have a single approach to monitoring the hybrid environment as we have very limited staff. We have one network/security engineer and one system engineer to monitor 13 locations. Without SolarWinds it would be impossible to properly monitor these devices and we would …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to view bandwidth utilization on our network switches interfaces to verify if we need to upgrade performance for branches that have higher utilization.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

NetPath is used for monitoring the network path to a service or a remote site. This includes monitoring network traffic, latency, and packet loss. This data can be real time and historical, which assists the network team in troubleshooting issues. It detects route changes and integrates with NCM …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Network Insights provides deeper monitoring visibility for network devices from certain vendors--Cisco, Palo Alto, Brocade. This includes monitoring network traffic utilization for networks and firewalls (Cisco) from a single unified platform.

Other Tools

Azure Monitor for monitoring cloud applications hosted on the cloud.

Approach

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) provides a single unified platform to monitor the entire infrastructure. It is easily scalable, with different monitoring options from agent to agentless and can monitor hybrid infrastructure. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) can monitor …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

As cloud solutions became a world contemporary reality it is quite critical for us to get actual monitoring information about cloud services reachability. NetPath and related to it alerts (for example, based on path change) also is a very useful thing for WAN infrastructure monitoring that really …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

Unfortunately, SolarWinds Network Insights has quite limited visibility for modern top vendors. It is good to use it for Cisco and Meraki(switches, AP as well as firewalls) but it is useless for other vendors such as Juniper/CheckPoint/Fortinet.

Approach

The on-premises environment solution is the only one we use based on our current network infrastructure.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

Yes, we currently use Netpath for end-to-end Packet loss and latency trends. However, we are limited to using Windows devices for Netpath pollers which is a limitation.

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We have not used Network Insights. We have used custom F5 Load balancer dashboards that have helped us spot a few issues.

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We have benefitted greatly from using NetPath by resolving an issue that went on for months. Not only did NetPath show us the full flow of the packet through multiple firewalls, but it also showed us that it was taking an unexpected path. We now use NetPath to visually monitor all of our …

SolarWinds NPM Network Insights

We do not use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Network Insights but will be evaluating this soon.

Approach

This is very important to have a single pane of glass for all network elements be it on-premises and/or multi-cloud and utilize naming conventions to differentiate where the element is. This way we have a holistic view of the application regardless of whether it is hybrid, fully on-premise or …

Support Staff

We needed to verify that our systems were not compromised by the recent security breech and the support engineer walked us through our entire configuration very calmly and methodically to discover that our installation were not affected. She even gave us tips on how to improve or implementation …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

We use NetPath in two scenarios.

A few permanent checks between hub sites to keep an eye on WAN health
Temporary monitors as needed for troubleshooting

So far, though, it does not have the features needed to replace Thousand Eyes for WAN/cloud monitoring. Maybe in a few versions.

Other Tools

Thousand Eyes is used to monitor site-to-site and cloud health. Vendor-centric tools are used for Firewall and Wireless Management and Monitoring.

Approach

Although it would be nice to have a single app that monitors everything, we rely on several vendor-specific applications that do the things we need. With almost everyone providing APIs to get at their raw data, we are starting to use programs like ELK to bring bits and pieces of disparate data …

SolarWinds NPM NetPath

NetPath is a very useful tool. Also allows creation of another netapath agent at another site so you can see the behaviour from different office locations. This actually came in very handy during implementation of one of our projects, where it assisted in determining the root cause of packet loss …

SolarWinds NPM Resource Utilization

Resource utilization monitoring has been very useful for the team. It lets us set alerts based on consumption and notify the relevant teams on any triggered alerts. For capacity planning, this is definitely one of the more useful tools we will look at to gauge out what will be required in the …

Resolution Time

Overall, it has definitely reduced mean time to resolution. Knowing exactly what, where, and when the issue occurs has greatly increased troubleshooting capabilities and isolating the equipment for further investigation. Services such as Netpath has also provided the team confidence whether the …

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Network monitoring (231)
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Alerts (228)
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Hardware health monitoring (215)
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Customizable reports (212)
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Easy to implement
Nothing as of now.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees

Proactive alerting with alerts when approaching set thresholds
It would be great to have Root Cause Analysis built into the platform

Jesse Bridgelal

Network Architect

Ministry of Health (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)

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Pricing

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NPM

$1,638

On Premise

per year

Entry-level set up fee?

Setup fee optional

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Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting / Integration Services

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SolarWinds NPM: Your Complete Network Monitoring Solution

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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.

8.1Avg 8.2

8.1
Automated network device discovery
(209) Ratings
Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked
8.9
Network monitoring
(231) Ratings
Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.
7.8
Baseline threshold calculation
(201) Ratings
Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds
8.8
Alerts
(228) Ratings
Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel
7.8
Network capacity planning
(188) Ratings
Capacity planning analyzes interface utilization, disk usage, etc. and allows identification of capacity problems well in advance of threshold breach
7.3
Packet capture analysis
(130) Ratings
Interception of data packets provides performance-related information such as network and application response times, and traffic type analysis
7.5
Network mapping
(190) Ratings
Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization
8.4
Customizable reports
(212) Ratings
Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports
7.2
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
(152) Ratings
Ability to monitor wireless access points, controllers, and connected clients
8.7
Hardware health monitoring
(215) Ratings
Ability to monitor key hardware metrics including temperature, fan speed, and power supply

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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

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

SolarWinds NPM Competitors

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Micro Focus Network Node Manager i
Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management
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Nagios Core
Progress WhatsUp Gold
DX Infrastructure Manager (formerly CA Unified Infrastructure Management)
Paessler PRTG

SolarWinds NPM Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Windows, Windows® Server 2016; SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 SP1 SQL Server 2017 (including installations on Linux)
Mobile Application	No

SolarWinds NPM Downloadables

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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, Micro Focus Network Node Manager i, and Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management are common alternatives for SolarWinds NPM.

Reviewers rate Network monitoring highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of SolarWinds NPM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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April 01, 2021

Orion Review

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Analyst in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Learning where everything is located can be a bit of a learning curve

December 08, 2020

How we use SolarWinds NPM, and some of the features you will find helpful

Dwain Erhart

Systems and Security Administrator

Flathead County (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

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Verified User

Difficult Tasks

I am having difficulty getting the SMS functionality working with Exchange 2016 without using a paid product like NotePage.
Figuring out which additional things to monitor on the servers to get a more complete assessment.
SMS notifications are difficult to setup without using another vendor to accomplish it.

October 09, 2020

How NPM replaced several products at much lower licensing cost.

Reinier Kleipool

Network Analyst

Rabobank (Banking, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Unable to monitor hardware health of H3C Comware devices.
Lack of a single API endpoint to add a Node to the system. It now requires several pages of code plus many (some difficult) API calls.
Alert suppression of dependent alerts is difficult.

July 20, 2020

SolarWinds NPM Customer Review

Collin Lichtenberger

Lead Network Engineer

University of Alaska (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 6 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Everything, system is inconsistent and often slow.

July 17, 2020

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor: THE leader in network monitoring

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

I cannot overstate the ease of use of this platform. If I had to pick something I'd say setting up custom monitoring by MIB browsing is cumbersome. However, doing that with any monitoring platform would be cumbersome. I really can't list any faults that I've noticed. It's a well polished product.

January 16, 2020

NPM watches our servers and switches so we don't have to

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Creating custom alerts takes a LOT of dialog screens and being consistent is difficult
Figuring out WHICH alert went off is hard. We've had to code that in the alert message

January 14, 2020

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is a Great Tool

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Sometimes the system gets slow and the server needs restarted

August 28, 2019

SolarWinds is our recipe for success

Aaron Oberman

Network Systems Administrator

Foremost Farms USA (Dairy, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

I have spent a lot of time learning how the reporting engine works. An important distinction that is that out of the box monitoring and reporting works immediately. If you are looking for custom alerting and reporting, it will take some work to understand.

August 27, 2019

SolarWinds for K-12

Jason Buttacavoli

LAN/WAN Specialist

Washington Township Board of Education (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

None that I find
None
None

August 27, 2019

Great Product - Would buy it again and again.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Changing contact and alert settings
Upgrades

August 27, 2019

SolarWinds NPM - Good product, but watch out for the add ons

Derek Dolan

Senior System Administrator

CURT Group (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 5 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Difficult Tasks

Some of the connections between the optional modules are less than efficient. e.g. It doesn't assume that network devices should be integrated with Network Configuration Manager, you have to manually select that option.
The alerting module leaves a lot to be desired. While there are default alerting rules, they aren't necessarily all useful. If the options for email aren't set up properly before you start tweaking alerts, it can become a major mess when you want to change something like the email server address.
Among all the pretty charts and graphs, there really isn't any indication of *why* something is a problem, or what you should do about it. Great, it's red. Tell me why it's red and what might happen if I don't fix it!

December 18, 2015