SolarWinds NPM is a great value and a solid addition to any IT organization
Updated July 29, 2019

SolarWinds NPM is a great value and a solid addition to any IT organization

John Prather | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

There are multiple groups at Microsoft that use SolarWinds NPM, in this case it's being used by the cloud and enterprise organization to keep track of the network and servers for the developer division. It addresses a gap between our server monitoring and the more global IT monitoring done by our MSIT group.
  • Easy to use but contains a lot of depth for power users
  • Reasonable price point to get started
  • Good support model and great community
  • Alert set up can be confusing
  • SolarWinds has had a very positive impact when it comes to our comfort that everything is functioning smoothly; we don't have to wonder if things are working and online.
We haven't used another product like SolarWinds, our global IT group has used many and most of them seem worse and more expensive than SolarWinds.
Well suited for small to medium groups who want a deeper insight into their own network environment. I haven't used it on a very large scale, but I feel it might get a bit overloaded.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
6
Network monitoring
9
Baseline threshold calculation
8
Alerts
7
Network capacity planning
9
Packet capture analysis
Not Rated
Network mapping
Not Rated
Customizable reports
Not Rated
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
Not Rated
Hardware health monitoring
9