We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The stability is fantastic."
"It is considerably cheaper compared to other tools."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"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."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"The integration with video apps could be better."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"Consolidation of platforms would provide a smoother experience."
"The interface needs some work."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Nagios XI, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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