An honest review of SolarWinds NPM from a Network Operations Manager at a major US Airline
April 26, 2022

An honest review of SolarWinds NPM from a Network Operations Manager at a major US Airline

Brett Stone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Our corporation uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to monitor all of our networks/endpoints for outages that may affect connectivity. With the use of NPM, we can easily view uptime graphs, receive alerts, and even SNMP traps or Syslogs. In addition to SolarWinds NPM, we also complement it with SolarWinds NTA and NCM where we can view all network traffic and download nightly backups to our configurations.

Pros

  • Monitor uptime and create alerts for nodes which are down.
  • Collecting Syslogs and Traps

Cons

  • NPM is very slow at drawing charts and historical data from the SQL database.
  • NPM has been invaluable to our organization to monitor ISP outages and alert us with SMS or email alerts.
SolarWinds NPM stacks up very well to the competition and is superior in many ways as it has the ability to monitor more information than the competition.

Do you think SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) again?

Yes

SolarWinds NPM is well suited for any Information Technology professional who needs to monitor their networks, nodes, or endpoints for outages. NPM can easily create rules for alerting and is invaluable to our organization to maintain high uptime.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Network Performance Monitoring
7.9
Automated network device discovery
10
Network monitoring
10
Baseline threshold calculation
5
Alerts
10
Network capacity planning
7
Packet capture analysis
9
Network mapping
4
Customizable reports
9
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
5
Hardware health monitoring
10

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