SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Room for Improvement
For the most part, our customers are satisfied with the features already present within NTA, as they mainly use it for checking to see if their bandwidth usage is okay and within reason.
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.
The biggest reason for this is because SolarWinds charges their users per ports, such that if you have a 24-port switch, they will charge you for 24 nodes, rather than count it as one single switch. In contrast, solutions such as ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer charge users per switch, which they count as a single node.
Besides the pricing, I also think that the technical support could be better. When we call SolarWinds' tech support, it usually takes at least 10 to 15 minutes for a response. And when you send an email, you will again have to wait some time for a response, and sometimes this can be upwards of four to five hours.
View full review »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.
What I'd like to see in the next release of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is a change in the way data is being collected and displayed on the graph. Currently, data is being measured every fifteen seconds, but it would be better if it's measured in minutes, in particular, five, ten, or fifteen minutes. As an administrator, I feel it would be easier and more helpful if SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer collects data every five, ten, or fifteen minutes, rather than in seconds. Doing this would also give more accurate data.
View full review »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.
I'd like to see better performance in the next release of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. I'd like it to be faster to drill down and move into different views. My organization typically works with the interface view. It would be good for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to have additional widgets that would allow you to drill up or down from the widget.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
February 2024
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Solomon Okafor
Information and Communication Manager at Heineken
There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic. They need to work on it more because when it generates traffic, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer doesn't show the source and destination IPs, which is essential to understand. It only shows the ports being used and what they are communicating with. SolarWinds does not have a monitoring solution for this, so they need to include a feature that can show where the IPs and systems are communicating, as third-party solutions can do.
There is a definition system that defines bad websites to your standards, and when your system communicates with that system, it flags it. However, SolarWinds cannot do that. It only shows you the telemetry, and there's no more visibility into what is happening outside the network. If you are connected to an IP outside your network, you won't know what it is.
It doesn't have any intelligence to add to the flow. It's just slow. It needs to be more of a robust tool that adds intelligence to the flow. When it shows you the flow, it should be able to tell you if the traffic is harmful to other sites.
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IanReilly
Manager at QMUL
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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Dr. SureshHungenahally
Chief Executive Officer at Suraksha
I'm expecting to see a little bit more artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They need a bit more sophistication in that.
We'd like more user input into the analysis, not just what they provide. It'll be good to put some user inputs like business timing, high volume of traffic, et cetera. With that, we could be more responsive.
All analytics could basically be more in-depth.
View full review »An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications.
Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution.
As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive.
Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better.
View full review »In terms of improvement, it can be complex to set up and configure, and the user guides provided can also be complex, especially when dealing with certain configuration aspects. Improved SQL capabilities would be useful in the future.
View full review »The solution's configuration had some issues in the beginning. They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature.
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Mehmood Khan
Mining Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution can be improved by including a blog portion with SolarWinds NTA and also advanced money for logs.
View full review »NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
February 2024
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