We performed a comparison between SolarWinds ipMonitor and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"SolarWinds NPM provides an overview of network monitoring, extending its capabilities to cover other aspects, such as virtual machines and servers. The platform has features like NetPath, which is particularly beneficial for end-users, offering insights into issues like latency, packet loss, and connectivity problems with routers, switches, or servers."
"All the features are very good. The monitoring of the equipment, the configuration manager, and the IP address monitoring are great."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"The product is scalable, but at a cost. Extra modules have to be purchased for each extra server. The initial set up isn't complex, but will require someone who is experienced with the network monitoring system"
SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 58th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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