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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"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."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"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 alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
"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."
"It would be good to have high security."
"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."
"The solution could be more secure."
"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."
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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