We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring 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."The product's initial setup is easy."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"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."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The solution's customer service is not very good because the support takes too long."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"The scalability can be better."
Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 43rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk and Opsview, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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