SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Review
Updated July 15, 2020

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

We utilize SolarWinds NPM to monitor our internal and client networks. It is currently only used by a single department (or business unit) but we supply regular reports to many other teams and clients. It directly addresses the needs of being able to monitor and troubleshoot a diverse range of hardware.
  • Detailed Statistics
  • Reporting
  • Configurability
  • Doing anything in bulk needs major improvement
  • Network mapping displays
  • Be more reactive to customer requests
  • Cover ALL technology vendors, not just a select few
We have been using a mish-mash of toolsets to be able to do reports, backups, monitoring, alerting, etc. Each individual tool has its strengths, but each has a major downside in that they don't play nice (AKA do not integrate) with other tools.
This review is purely aimed at making others realize that SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is not a simple replacement tool for what you might already be using. It is extremely powerful, extremely configurable but the average likely user--a network or server admin--is ulikely to have the necessary coding and SQL skills needed to utilize that. This is something that SolarWinds haven't really talked about, and in my opinion, is a major flaw and is what makes me only give it a 6/10 rating.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
3
Network monitoring
8
Baseline threshold calculation
Not Rated
Alerts
8
Network capacity planning
Not Rated
Packet capture analysis
6
Network mapping
1
Customizable reports
8
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
6
Hardware health monitoring
8

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