We performed a comparison between NetCrunch and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"The integration with video apps could be better."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
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NetCrunch is ranked 67th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. NetCrunch is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our NetCrunch vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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