We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Versa Director 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"The benefit of this solution is the reporting. We're able to report on and see our network in a graphical form. We are able to detect when a device is added to a network."
"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."
"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."
"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."
"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."
"Versa could be more AI-oriented."
"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."
"It requires some simplification."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Versa Director is ranked 56th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Versa Director is rated 8.0. 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 Versa Director writes "User-friendly and simpler than its competitors". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Versa Director is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix and PRTG Network Monitor. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Versa Director report.
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