SolarWinds NPM Stability

MohitKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The solution is stable. 

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Angela Bustamante - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring and Process Analyst at Seguros SURA

SolarWinds NPM is a stable tool.

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CP
IT Infrastructure Analyst at Textron Systems Corporation

The stability is fantastic. We haven't personally had any issues other than a few gripes about the lack of information. However, as far as it being stable, for me, it's been pretty solid.

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SolarWinds NPM
March 2024
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Alan Arnold - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Operations Manager at University of Alabama at Birmingham

SolarWinds is a pretty good, stable product, but we have had some issues with support. That is especially true of the last release we upgraded to. There were some SQL issues that we were looking for them to help us out with and, finally, it took so long that someone on our internal SQL team had figured out what the problem was. So, I would say that the upgrades to the product itself from what we went through can be somewhat of a pain point and maybe there needs to be more rigorous testing.  

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DarrinBryant - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Technology Network Engineer at LPL Financial

SolarWinds NPM is a stable solution, aside from the fact that they had a major hack a couple of years ago and effectively allowed the Russian government to completely hack their code, making everyone vulnerable.

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BP
Senior Network Engineer at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees

SolarWinds NPM is very unstable. We often have website loading issues. We have to call support, and they fix it. Then a month later, we're going to have the same problem.

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Naglaa ELDeeb - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Director, IT Service Excellence Quality Assurance at American University in Cairo (AUC)

It is a stable solution. 

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BB
Senior Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is stable. there are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

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Henry-Steinhauer - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at LifePoint Health

We experienced the typical ones that happen when a parameter is not well understood and that it is implemented, you end up causing issues.

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Devdatt Diwedi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Officer at Guardian Bank

It's been very stable and reliable. I'd rate the stability ten out of ten. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs. 

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BO
Corporate IT Infrastructure Manager at United Test and Assembly Center Ltd.

The solution is generally stable although there are occasional bugs when updating to the latest version. 

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MQ
Service Delivery Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

SolarWinds NPM is stable. We haven't faced any major outages.

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Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technologies

The solution is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

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AD
Senior Systems Administrator at Privia Health

I have never had an issue with stability or performance. I recommend following the SolarWinds documentation (which is very detailed) and you can be assured not to encounter a single issue in regards to stability.

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it_user577527 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Enterprise Monitoring at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Back in the early days and new major releases, of course, there were some hiccups and gotchas. Bleeding edge, baby! It’s all a matter of risk assessment with new feature needs, etc.

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SH
Chief Executive Officer at Suraksha

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

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NS
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It is a stable and good solution.

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PF
Manager at Barbados Water Authority

We have not had issues with stability. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

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AbdulKader Mohandes - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

SolarWinds NPM is stable.

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RP
Consultant at HCL Technologies

SolarWinds NPM is a stable solution.

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Omer_Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Design Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is very good and informative.

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Vijay Samant - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at Just Dial Limited

SolarWinds NPM is a stable solution.

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Muhammad Asif - PeerSpot reviewer
Consaltant at a consultancy with self employed

SolarWinds is stable. We sometimes have crashes here and there because we are monitoring so many features and routers.

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DS
Systems and Data Warehouse Supervisor at MMSD

I think this is a very stable solution.

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it_user227532 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability depends on the module/version. In general, it is very stable if you wait a bit before upgrading to the latest version and let some patches come out. There has been a problem in NCM when you deploy compliance remediation jobs to a large number of nodes that use config blocks that has persisted through a couple updates. But this is a pretty advanced feature.

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RH
Sr. Systems Administrator at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had any stability issues. It's been a predictably solid platform across software revisions, even with the jump from 11.x to 12.x. That upgrade also included a complete graphical update for the console.

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FQ
IT Manager at XYZies

SolarWinds is a stable product.

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Ankur_Yadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Accenture

It is a stable solution, and rate the stability a nine out of ten.

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JZ
Assistant Director of Information Technology at TOWN OF CULPEPER

SolarWinds NPM seems to be stable.

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CharlesGura - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

SolarWinds was pretty stable.

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RajeshB - PeerSpot reviewer
Server and Network Monitoring Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. While it is very flexible, and you can do lots of things with the SolarWinds, the down side is that the product can be unusable. Also, sometimes, the performance is slow. In comparison, I have tested some Unix-based applications, which are very quick. However, SolarWinds is Windows-based, so we are seeing a lot of performance issues.

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BA
Information Security Engineer at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees

There have been some versions that have had stability issues, but the current version seems pretty stable.

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MB
Director of Operations at 802BR

SolarWinds NPM is stable.

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BenjaminRafrafi - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

SolarWinds NPM is a stable solution.

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DP
Senior Executive IT Program Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM. 

We had one problem, but it wasn't a stability issue, it was a hack that occurred earlier this year that affected everyone using SolarWinds. After that, it took a bit to get it stabilized to where it is now. 

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it_user216372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

On the whole, NPM is a very stable product. Occasionally, we might have a poller that stops communicating with the mother ship but usually a little bit of basic troubleshooting is able to resolve the issue with minimal downtime.

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MR
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have found it is definitely stable.

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GN
Instrumentation Superintendent Systems at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is great and any issues we face are addressed very quickly by technical support.

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it_user575310 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer, Infrastructure Applications at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Again, enterprise-scaled customers are probably the only ones to notice issues here and it usually happens post-upgrade. We process 4,000 transactions per second in our monitoring environment and that scale exacerbates any code inefficiencies or bugs. However, the platform is generally very stable and any issues are dealt with rapidly via tier 3 support and the development team.

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it_user651858 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are a few things to watch out for regarding stability. All of them are basic administration issues. For example:

  • Do run configuration wizard after EVERY single module update
  • Do not give every user of the tool view rights and report rights, etc., where people are going to be messing with everyone else’s views and reports (or creating reports that kill the DB).
  • Do create custom views so that people aren’t seeing everything and stressing the web client, etc.

In older module versions, there were issues where upgrading from module version A to module version B could sometimes carry over old things that had a performance impact on the app servers themselves. But these days, you can blow away the install and do a clean one to fix that.

On new installs, as of the latest few releases, they upgrade everything for you and/or have smart installers to make this significantly easier.

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Yoshiro Travezano - PeerSpot reviewer
IM Infrastructure Specialist at Anglo American

It is stable.

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AW
Vice President Of Global Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The stability is good. Aside from the very public hack, from a user's standpoint, it's good.

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RP
Senior Vice President and CIO at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The solution is very stable. We don't see many outages of the actual platform. The sole exception would concern us taking a process in which we would be restarting it on a monthly basis. 

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Donald Bakels - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Adfontessoftware

This product is very stable. It has been a proven software solution for a couple of years. 
We have sold this to global banks who use it to manage their global networks. For this purpose, it needs to be very scalable and very stable.  

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it_user575286 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Network Engineer/Business Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The only times I have had issues with stability have been when I did not apply adequate resources. There is no real all-inclusive recommendation to go by. You really need an experienced consultant to look at your specific environment to spec out what would work best for you. If you don't, you will probably have issues.

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it_user578952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have never experienced any stability issues with NPM.

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it_user397317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

Yes, multiple times. Some of the areas of stability had to do with 'monitoring capacity' per polling server several versions ago. Official documentation claimed each server can handle monitoring for up-to 10,000 elements (i.e. ports, volumes, nodes, etc.). In reality this number was more like 5,000. However, monitoring capacity improvements have been made with each software release and we are now back up to the 10,000 element.

Another area of stability issues we have experienced are with the dependency on MS SQL. There were a few times where we had stability issues with SQL server, which in turn impacted NPM performance. When there are issues with the SQL database NPM doesn't make this known and is up to the admin to figure it out.

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MB
CTO-OSS product development at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

The solution is stable.

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MD
Managing Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The solution is stable.

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DN
Digital Innovation at Bobcat Company

The stability is weak in comparison to other solutions. CloudWatch is far better in the stability aspect. The solution is a bit slow.

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it_user579462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Networks Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have encountered issues only with the Microsoft OS that it lays on.

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WK
Network/Systems Administrator at TRSP

This is a very stable solution and we use it extensively.

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KhalidOmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Engineer at Arabianoud.com

The stability of the solution is very good. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches.

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MA
Network Administrator at Libyana Mobile Phone

It is stable.

It does not take much staff to maintain.

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WK
CEO at WilCom Systems Ltd

This is a stable solution. 

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Juan Pr - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Professional at NTT Security

The product is very stable and we have been using the product for around ten years.

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KD
IT Expert & Data Center Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The stability is very good.

We use it every day. We use it as a monitoring tool.

One person maintains the solution.

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EL
Technical Specialist, consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I think it's a pretty stable solution although we have identified some security gaps around it. I think it's more about managing it correctly and having the security hot fixes and patches up to date. It's generally stable and we haven't had many issues. 

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TN
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's stable. We didn't face any issues in the last period.

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NK
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar

This is a mature product and the stability is quite good.

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AN
Senior Network Engineer at Element Critical

The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes.

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it_user214254 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

At times, we've had trouble with lost data within the database. These were largely resolved by moving to a more stable database server. I don't recall any recent issues now that we're on 11.x.

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it_user212001 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Security Services Manager with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, as noted above, the solution is not always stable and generally requires a weekly reboot. We do own a wide variety of SolarWinds products that are integrated with NPM.

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it_user171912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues with stability, if we follow the prerequisites properly.

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SK
Senior Technical Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It’s stable.

In 2020, as most people know, there was an attack on SolarWinds. At that time, there was a problem. However, in 2021, everything was good. If it wasn’t, we would have been looking for another solution. Everything has been stabilized.

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FA
Implementation & Support Specialist at 360Factors

The stability of SolarWinds NPM is very good.

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it_user577878 - PeerSpot reviewer
SolarWinds Expert (Consultant) at a tech services company

We have not had any problems with stability. I think the way it's implemented it's pretty robust. I started to use SolarWinds three years ago; not from the beginning 15 years ago. So, I don't know what it was like then. From my experience over the past three years, it has been a fairly stable system. Often, clients underspec the platform and SolarWinds requires quite a lot of resources, especially on the database and on the disk-use side, and it needs to be planned. Some customers simply get a box, install all the modules in one box and then complain that SolarWinds is slow. It's not SolarWinds. It's an underspec'd platform.

Some clients think, "Oh, it's all SolarWinds' problem. SolarWinds doesn't perform well." When I come to consult them, we quite easily find that it's the server struggling and not SolarWinds.

The bottom line is this: I am a SolarWinds expert. I know what I'm doing. They are not experts in SolarWinds. From their perspective, what they see straightaway is SolarWinds is not performing well and it can mislead them to think that it is SolarWinds when it's not.

Again, to summarize, I don't think SolarWinds has any performance issues or problems if correctly planned. Go through the documentation and make sure your environment meets the recommended minimums.

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it_user577521 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech services company

I have not encountered any stability issues; it's solid.

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GM
SOC Expert at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability and reliability of the solution are very good. It's got more stability than other software options. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is good.

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MH
Vice President, SaaS Operations at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

SolarWinds NPM is a stable product.

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it_user578784 - PeerSpot reviewer
SolarWinds SME at a tech services company

Once I installed it as a high performance server, there were no stability issues.

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it_user577893 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick Launch Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have only very rarely experienced any stability issues; and hotfixes are generally made available in a timely fashion.

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it_user171936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

There were some version releases that had stability issues but the support team was very good at letting us know what we needed to do to fix the issues.

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PS
Sr. Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

SolarWinds tools are very stable.

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it_user669324 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Monitoring Consultant at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

For the most part, it is just like any product and is as stable as it could be. At the same time, it is just as vulnerable as the infrastructure it uses (server/VM, storage, network and database).

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it_user579453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech services company

We haven’t had any issues with stability.

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it_user167964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer with 51-200 employees

Yes, but that was due to using just a recommend server size. Moved to a better server and all was well.

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it_user139116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user171930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We didn't have any issues with stability.

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MV
Information Technology Director at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

Sometimes, the responsiveness is slow, but overall the stability of this solution is good. 

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DO
System Administration at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The stability is very nice. This is a good solution, compared to other monitoring solutions.

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it_user577536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst Network Operations at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues; nothing that we could point our finger to SolarWinds about. There were server issues, so whatever was on the server was going to happen anyway.

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Donald Bakels - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Adfontessoftware

The solution is stable.

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it_user167895 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager and consultant enterprise IT tooling at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

You certainly can have stability issues. The system runs on Windows Server and a dedicated MS SQL Server.

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it_user216399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We do see issues, but not so many major ones.

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it_user174651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Not anymore. Years ago I would frequently have issues after performing software upgrades, but over the last 3 years that has improved significantly.

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it_user7548 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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FA
IT Security Architecture & Implementation Manager at Banque Saudi Fransi

Up to now, everything has been reliable.

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it_user221865 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer III at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Data collection can be an issue so you have to maintain that accordingly.

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it_user174660 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user175134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Global Network Ops with 1,001-5,000 employees

None except for EOC.

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NJ
Optical Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

SolarWinds NPM to date has been stable for me. 

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AA
CISO with 201-500 employees

The solution is very stable. 

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it_user616932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a educational organization

We had some stability issues.

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it_user660639 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Infrastructure Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I did have some issues with the stability of the database, but that was due to issues whereby nightly maintenance of the database was not running.

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it_user83385 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are minimal issues of stability for the NPM of Solarwinds. This is the reason you need to update the version as often as they release to address the minute bugs of this product View full review »
AV
Systems Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have found the stability of SolarWinds NPM to be good.

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it_user577329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Management at a media company with 10,001+ employees

I have only rarely encountered stability issues.

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it_user164031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Yes, plenty of those that our systems team has spent hours on the phone with Solarwinds support with trying to rectify. Especially after moving to later NPM releases; this has made our systems team weary of moving to later NPM releases due to past occurrences following.

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EE
System Engineer - Infrastructure Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

SolarWinds is quite stable. In the last couple of weeks, I have heard that they have a bug or a security hold in the RMM platform. Luckily, we do not use it, but instead, just use NPM. Nevertheless, we contacted the supplier and asked them to help us update to patch the security hole.

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it_user384900 - PeerSpot reviewer
ENTERPRISE NETWORK : Team Leader: ICT Events Monitoring at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Always stable.

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it_user656289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head, ATM Management at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

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it_user608529 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user218772 - PeerSpot reviewer
PC Support Technician at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user341982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer Information Security & SIEM Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

There was slow performance after adding 100 devices with 400-500 elements with 10 second interval pooling.

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it_user174672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes at times there are database stability issues.

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it_user1012662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is stable.

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CC
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The stability is good. 

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it_user1290390 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It was used on a daily basis during the PoC and it was stable, once the configuration was completed.

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it_user952677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Network Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

You sometimes lose some statistics, but if you have HA, then you have a backup that will pick up the monitoring. I think it's going in the right direction.

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YP
Managed Services Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It is stable.

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it_user216402 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user168066 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
TZ
Business Consultant. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is an absolutely stable platform.

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it_user657369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network/NOC Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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Buyer's Guide
SolarWinds NPM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SolarWinds NPM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.