We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"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."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"The benefit of this solution is the reporting. We're able to report on and see our network in a graphical form. We are able to detect when a device is added to a network."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"It is considerably cheaper compared to other tools."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"It is stable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and HPE OneView, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios XI, PRTG Network Monitor and ManageEngine OpManager. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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