We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and SolarWinds NPM 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."It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"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."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"The solution could be more secure."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Darktrace and Centreon, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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