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."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"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."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"The integration with video apps could be 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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