SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer pros and cons

Vendor: SolarWinds

3.8 out of 5

34 reviews
82% willing to recommend

1,757 followers

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Pros review quotes

MS

IT Analyst at Hawkbridge Consultants

Sep 23, 2019

In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth.

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Senior Network Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 12, 2020

SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert.

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Consaltant at a consultancy with self employed

Nov 16, 2022

The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth.

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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

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IT Director at NEDCO

Sep 23, 2019

With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption.

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Rajasekhar Maturi

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

May 25, 2022

What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use.

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Diego Del Pozo Saiz

Communications Technician at Grupo Antolin

Oct 25, 2022

What my organization likes best about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its easy deployment. It's also well-integrated in terms of monitoring because my organization also uses a SolarWinds solution for monitoring. You can connect SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer directly to that monitoring tool to get information. My organization also finds the default graphs that appear before the configuration in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer very useful.

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RD

reviewer1427196

Network Services Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 28, 2020

The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical.

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SO

Information and Communication Manager at Heineken

May 8, 2023

It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents.

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MH

Network Engineer at Brookfield Property

Jul 2, 2019

I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic.

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IR

Manager at QMUL

Dec 29, 2022

The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network.

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MS

IT Analyst at Hawkbridge Consultants

Sep 23, 2019

The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features.

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Senior Network Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 12, 2020

It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts.

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Consaltant at a consultancy with self employed

Nov 16, 2022

One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it.

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AA

IT Director at NEDCO

Sep 23, 2019

The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments.

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Rajasekhar Maturi

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

May 25, 2022

There are some areas for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. There are some challenges with the solution when compared to other monitoring tools such as difficulty in operations and difficulty with backup installation. My team is currently trying out different solutions but would need to see how it goes.

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Diego Del Pozo Saiz

Communications Technician at Grupo Antolin

Oct 25, 2022

What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution.

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RD

reviewer1427196

Network Services Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 28, 2020

It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved.

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SO

Information and Communication Manager at Heineken

May 8, 2023

There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic.

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MH

Network Engineer at Brookfield Property

Jul 2, 2019

This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself.

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IR

Manager at QMUL

Dec 29, 2022

An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky.

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