We performed a comparison between BigPanda and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best of a bad lot was the error message deduping."
"The most valuable features of BigPanda are the API integration was good. It enables us to do faster onboarding."
"The solution is user-friendly and has good performance and certification."
"We have also made extensive use of the outbound integrations to ticketing systems (JIRA) and collaboration tools (Slack). The main driver for us has been getting all alerting into a single UI and enabling us to streamline our incident management process."
"The main thing that we like about BigPanda is the user interface."
"The program is very stable."
"BigPanda integrates well with other solutions, such as WatchGuard,"
"A user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"The stability is fantastic."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"Our infrastructure is quite large - tens of thousands of servers, often with 30-plus checks running on each host with one minute intervals. This generates a lot of data often in bursts (when we have a large scale failure). This has caused some delay in the ingestion pipeline."
"BigPanda could improve by syncing its threshold settings with Dynatrace to align with users' familiarity."
"Analytics is an area for improvement, being able to break down the actions that are being taken by users of BigPanda, as well as the auto-magical work that is being done by BigPanda."
"We had to use a partner for the deployment."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"Lacks sufficient dashboard features."
"The cost of this product is too high compared to New Relic."
"BigPanda attempts a little of everything and fails at most."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"The solution could be more secure."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
BigPanda is ranked 43rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 12 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. BigPanda is rated 7.2, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BigPanda writes "Offers comprehensive alert monitoring and a user-friendly interface but requires manual validation to provide accurate alerts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". BigPanda is most compared with ServiceNow, Moogsoft, PagerDuty Operations Cloud, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our BigPanda vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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