The great WAN grapher
April 16, 2019

The great WAN grapher

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Only the IT department uses this. We use it to identify bottlenecks.
  • It's good at displaying graphs
  • The graphs and displays are very customizable
  • It's an integrated solution to the monitoring tool you know and love
  • The problems are less with NPM, and more with the difficulty of configuring devices to accurately use it.
  • Solarwinds as a product itself needs to improve performance.
  • NPM should be able to self deploy.
  • When we suspect a problem, we can go to the graphs and see what is happening.
  • It lets us plan for capacity, if we need a bigger wan link we can plan for it.
We use Solarwinds for our day to day monitoring, so we naturally went with NPM. We did not evaluate other products.
If you want to monitor your WAN links, this product can do wonders for you. It's also able to give you an idea of the applications that are used internally if you enable monitoring between switches.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
7
Network monitoring
7
Alerts
7
Network capacity planning
8
Network mapping
10
Customizable reports
10
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
7