SolarWinds simply works!
Updated July 17, 2020
SolarWinds simply works!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
It is being used across the whole organization. The product helps the IT department monitor systems and applications, which would allow IT to respond and address issues more timely and in a proactive manner.
- System monitoring
- Application monitoring
- Update node properties
- Certain query functions in reporting
- Centrally hosted IT monitoring solution, reducing cost for departments and schools
- A community based support and learning environment
We used PRTG for several years before switching to SolarWinds.
SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings
Using SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
They are mainly IT staff including systems admins, network engineer, developers and IT managers.
- Custom poller to monitor Docker container
- Synthetic transactions to monitor and benchmark application performance
- Take corrective actions for certain alerts
- System profiling and capacity planning
- Forecast
Evaluating SolarWinds NPM and Competitors
Our evaluation process was pretty thorough and very formalized. I don't see that we really need to change anything.