We performed a comparison between SolarWinds ipMonitor and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"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."
"It is considerably cheaper compared to other tools."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
"The integration with video apps could be better."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the short retention period. Currently, it's just for seven days of data, which is very low, making it hard for my organization to keep that data. SolarWinds recommended a seven-day retention period, but my organization needs a fourteen-day data retention period. Hence, I'd like an increase in the retention period or the database limit in SolarWinds NPM because you can't go back to the data for any investigation if seven days have passed. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the database, which needs to be a bit more mature. I want a modified database in the next release of SolarWinds NPM. I'd also like more options added to groups because, currently, it's very limited."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"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 console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"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."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 59th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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