We performed a comparison between Observer Apex and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The other valuable system is the DSS (decision support system). If there's a fault in the network, SolarWinds is basically capable of rectifying and resolving that problem on its own without any intervention from an IP assistant or administrator."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds added some technical protocols like Modbus. The market needs a simple solution for monitoring a technical device."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
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Observer Apex is ranked 94th in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Observer Apex is rated 0.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Observer Apex is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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