Solarwinds is like a good employee
January 19, 2019

Solarwinds is like a good employee

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

We use it to monitor key websites, servers, services, and WAN traffic. It allows us to be proactive about issues often before they become a problem.
  • Allows us to see WAN utilization so we can size our WAN links correctly
  • Identifies Port errors
  • Allows us to centralize WAN link support contacts and line IDs
  • Netflow could use some improvement
  • UI takes some time to get used to.
  • Setting alerts and fine tuning them takes some work
  • Reduced downtime
  • More visibility into issues before they are problems
  • Better reporting and planning
Well suited for uptime monitoring, but added components like SAM are required to get a broader view.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
9
Network monitoring
8
Baseline threshold calculation
8
Alerts
7
Network capacity planning
8
Packet capture analysis
7
Network mapping
7
Customizable reports
7
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
8
Hardware health monitoring
8