SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, shines light into the darkest corners of your network.
February 07, 2019

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, shines light into the darkest corners of your network.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

We use it to monitor and report on our network appliances. It is one module in a suite of SolarWinds modules we use. The software is integrated into our ServiceNow ticketing system to generate a ticket when an issue is detected. The system also provides a quick visual on the health of the network with its network overview.
  • Large existing MIB database - SolarWinds has an extremely large existing library of MIBs. For devices that are not listed in the library it offers utilities to build your own.
  • Customization - With SolarWinds it's easy to customize screens and reports. Creating custom dashboards makes it easy to quickly see what is going on in your network.
  • Easy Integration - Integrating with other SolarWinds products is easy and allows everything to be shown on a single screen. When troubleshooting issues I first look at SolarWinds to get an overview of what is going on before I proceed.
  • Creating the alerts can be a bit of a hassle, there isn't an easy way to do this.
This was an upgrade from a previously installed version of SolarWinds. We did not do any evaluations prior to the upgrade.
I can't off the top of my head think of anywhere you wouldn't want to use it. Its ability to work in the cloud allows for end to end visibility into hybrid networks. That helps take a lot the mystery out of what is happening in those scenarios.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
8
Network monitoring
10
Baseline threshold calculation
9
Alerts
8
Network capacity planning
9
Network mapping
9
Customizable reports
9
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
8
Hardware health monitoring
10