We performed a comparison between Darktrace and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the Antigena feature in Darktrace, as it offers immediate response and is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ability to trim out the false positives and point your attention to the real important stuff."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The Dynamic Threat Dashboard is very nice, as it lists all of your threats and rates them, and then you can choose whether to investigate further."
"The solution is stable. We've never had any problems with it."
"The platform has many modules, and each module examines a different situation in the behavior."
"We have found the product to be stable and issue-free."
"Provides great network protection."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network."
"Darktrace could expand into EDR (endpoint detection and response) and combine it with its network detection."
"It should be easier to access the Darktrace portal and its documentation. Only the customer can access their portal and support. It could be cheaper."
"The initial setup is more complex and time-consuming than some solutions."
"The pricing model is a little too high and could be more flexible."
"It takes time to go through the interface and pick up things. If it were a more straightforward interface, then it would free up time."
"Although we haven't detected any network threats since implementing Darktrace, we are unsure of its efficacy. It would be beneficial if the solution could offer additional details to the user regarding any potential or prevented threats. Additionally, there could be better search tools and integration."
"Darktrace is a closed technology, meaning we know very little about how it works, including the architecture, which is significant. As a result, when we implement the system and find we're getting many false positives, we have minimal insight into why it's happening and what we can do to fix it. We don't know how the solution is configured, the criteria for threats to be determined, or the product's inner workings. We understand that they have to ensure privacy and their copyright, but we want to see some documentation or public research into the security Darktrace provides."
"There aren't so many third-party vendor platforms natively integrated with the platform."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"The solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"There are some areas for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. There are some challenges with the solution when compared to other monitoring tools such as difficulty in operations and difficulty with backup installation. My team is currently trying out different solutions but would need to see how it goes."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
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Darktrace is ranked 1st in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 65 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and ScienceLogic. See our Darktrace vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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