Solarwidns NPM
February 08, 2019
Solarwidns NPM
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
We use SolarWinds NPM internally to monitor uptime and latency between our network segments. We are able to easily isolate and find errors in individual switch ports as well as be alerted in real time of any latency issues above thresholds.
We also use NetPath at our customer sites to provide real time tracking of network hops to various endpoints, which allows for better troubleshooting and isolation of routing or other network issues.
- Response time threshold and alerting
- Network tracing over public connections
- Individual switch port error and discard reporting
- NetPath alerts can be improved for changing conditions. The "Unknown" state alerts aren't very useful
- Better categories of internal resources to isolate and track specific segments
- NetPath has allowed us to be proactive with regional network issues to avoid large numbers of client issues at once.
- Default alerts have allowed us to know when a network link has dropped or gone below a service threshold.
- Insights has allowed us to track switch resources to ensure that we are growing our equipment properly.