We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Auvik and others in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)."The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The company provides excellent service."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"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."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"It's an expensive solution."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Darktrace, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, SolarWinds NPM, Dynatrace and AppDynamics.
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