We performed a comparison between NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG 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."
"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."
"When we have mobile operators who are signal partners, where one is the roaming host and another is the roamer, we are able to see their traffic. Their packets are able to detect if any faults to develop, and at what point they fail."
"The technical support is really good. They will go above and beyond, if you are running into a problem. You can go to a sales engineer, who will engage technical support to help you out."
"The product is stable. I have never had any issue where we have lost an InfiniStream, or visibility from that particular InfiniStream, throughout the bank."
"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."
"It allows us to get quicker resolutions. We can see exactly what is using up the bandwidth, so we can assist end users."
"It has cut our troubleshooting down by days. Once we have a product in place, we show people examples of how it can streamline their troubleshooting process."
"It is very rock solid. We hardly have any hardware issues."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."
"The single pane of glass feed still needs work."
"There is a timeout feature that we have been asking for awhile."
"I'd like them to make the product more user-friendly."
"We don't use the single pane of glass view, even though we own it."
"It's not able to communicate with our probes."
"The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."
"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"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."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is ranked 63rd in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG writes "Once you know how to use the product, it's easy and simple ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is most compared with NETSCOUT vSTREAM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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