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CP
IT Infrastructure Analyst at Textron Systems Corporation

We actually didn't use anything before this product.

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

I did not use a solution previously.

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

Our company decided to change to SolarWinds due to a security breach they experienced. Other solutions that were considered were more expensive than Solarwinds. 

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

We didn't use a different solution. That's what was here when I started 17 years ago and that's what we've stayed with.

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Henry-Steinhauer - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at LifePoint Health

At the time I had been with the company for just over six years. They had only been using SolarWinds.

I have also been using VMware for a long time, and we are implementing vROps for alerting and monitoring.

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

We have used Centreon previously. We have evaluated it for some time. It was very easy to use but the requirements we had, were not fulfilled. We have engaged with some Centreon providers, and the support was not great. We bought a license for one year for Centreon, and the support from France was not great. That's why we decided that we cannot go with it for a longer time and on a larger scale. Additionally, we have used Alaloop for quite some time, and it was good.

We switched to SolarWinds NPM mainly because we were expanding, and in Alaloop we were mainly using it for WAN only, not for the LAN. Additionally, Alaloop was much more expensive compared to SolarWinds NPM.

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AD
Senior Systems Administrator at Privia Health

No, SolarWinds NPM was the first network/server monitoring product that was brought into the organization. Other network monitoring products were researched, but didn't have the feature set, didn't seem as easy to use or as robust as Solarwinds NPM.

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

We were previously using HPE OpenView. The biggest reason was its lack of mapping flexibility at the time. The ops part is still very visual with the green/yellow/red color-coding of icons. Our systems side is based on alerts and emails.

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SH
Chief Executive Officer at Suraksha

One of the competing products for this solution is Cisco SecureX. We have used it in the past.

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PF
Manager at Barbados Water Authority

SolarWinds NPM was the first network monitoring solution we used

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RP
Consultant at HCL Technologies

I've previously worked with HPE and IBM, but that was for another organization. My current organization uses SolarWinds NPM.

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

I used PRTG, but it's not used in any banks. About 80 percent of banks I know use SolarWinds. PRTG is mostly popular in manufacturing companies. It's cheaper, so manufacturers can easily afford it. 

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DS
Systems and Data Warehouse Supervisor at MMSD

We used to use a product called ipMonitor, which is a much simpler solution. It's one-tenth of the cost and we used it strictly for alerting. It would tell us when a server was down, but not that the server was running at 70% utilization for the previous week. ipMonitor was strictly a something is working or a something is not working solution.

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

At the different jobs I’ve had, it was a mishmash of different freeware tools and things like CiscoWorks/Prime or WhatsUp Gold.

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

I've used HPE OpenView and PRTG in the past. My reason for switching was a combination of ease of use, customizability, and integration between network/application/DB monitoring and measurement.

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

We used to be on NetIQ, but were scaling very fast. This product was very scalable and flexible, which is why we went for it.

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

We previously used HPE OpenView, OpenNMS and Zenoss.

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

I am familiar with several tools.

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SK
SME Solarwinds at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I worked with HPE for about six to seven months in 2016. It had similar features to SolarWinds NPM. However, the deployment process was complex.

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

In every case where I have used SolarWinds, I have displaced an enterprise platform from a larger software company including, but not limited to, IBM, HPE, NimSoft, and so on. I've also displaced segment competitors because of the aggressive pricing model from SolarWinds and their favorable cost-to-value ratio.

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

I’ve used SCOM and CA before. We switched off of both because they were awful. CA cost a boatload and had a very limited feature set.

SCOM requires too many people to be dedicated to SCOM to be of actual use.

Plus, the aforementioned scope limitations and the requirement of having to go through *every* monitoring pack with every affected group in detail, takes up way too much time.

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

I have used other products prior to SolarWinds NPM. I switched because the solution provides a consolidated view of everything. 

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

I have been working with another HP product called OpenView a long while ago, but that software is now disappearing and it is being replaced by HP with SolarWinds. The big bank I worked with has already replaced all the HP OpenView software with the SolarWinds product.  

The main difference between SolarWinds network monitoring software and other software is the price and the ease-of-use of the tool. The software has also been made by network engineers for network engineers. The designers are in the industry as well. So they speak the same language and the software is being endorsed by other IT engineers.  

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

I have used numerous other products to do some of the same functions. I have used WhatsUp Gold, LogicMonitor, HPE OpenView, CiscoWorks, LMS, Spiceworks, PRTG, ManageEngine OpManager, Splunk, CA Spectrum, Zenoss Service Dynamics, etc. Nothing really compares to the cost-effectiveness that SolarWinds gives you. Their cost structure and customization ability is what sways me to SolarWinds. There are some areas that are done better in other products but overall, SolarWinds is better.

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

Yes, multiple products were used previously including Microsoft MOM 2005 (current versions are System Center Operations Manager) and What's Up Gold. Switch was made to attempt to consolidate various monitoring tools into a single space.

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DN
Digital Innovation at Bobcat Company

We didn't previously have any other hybrid platform to monitor. We were just using CloudWatch for our AWS services. With SolarWinds, we have the potential to take a look at everything across the board. 

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

Initially, we used a home-grown solution. Since it was not scaling/developing with the rate of technology, we moved onto this product.

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KhalidOmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Engineer at Arabianoud.com

We didn't previously use a different solution. 

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MA
Network Administrator at Libyana Mobile Phone

I previously used PRTG, but PRTG is now forbidden in Libya. So, we switched to using SolarWinds and ManageEngine OpManager.

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

For networks, we prefer to use Cisco Prime.

For service devices, we use HPE OneVIew. This is helpful for HPE services.

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

SolarWinds was the first product of this type that we used.

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

In-house implementation.

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

We used What's Up Gold at one company, which wasn't as feature rich, and Nagios at my present company which was quite expensive in terms of custom programming to get what we want out of the solution.

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

WhatsUP Gold because of the scalability.

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

Now we are using Tripwire also for some of our customers. It is also good.

I am not using any other products. However, there are some solutions that are free tools.

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FA
Implementation & Support Specialist at 360Factors

We previously used ManageEngineOpManager, but we switched because it did not have enough features.

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

I tried different alternatives, but I was never really able to set up other tools the way I wanted. I consider myself a very creative person; an artist so to speak. I come up with something in my brain, I like it, I make a note and then I try to implement it. Very often, with other tools, I was just stuck. I wouldn't be able to do this and that and then I would be coming up with my own bespoke solutions, using my own bespoke scripts. I'm doing them manually and sending manually.

With SolarWinds, everything just works. It's not that SolarWinds has everything I need. It's that SolarWinds gives me enough power to implement everything I need. It's a proper platform. I don't think about it as a tool. When I have an idea and SolarWinds doesn't provide it, I implement it. I write a script or a SQL script or VB, or PowerShell, or whatever. Then I simply attach it to SolarWinds and voila, suddenly SolarWinds is actually is giving me the output that I need; drawing charts and graphs and generating reports and it all works. Then, in a click, I can apply the same monitoring to hundreds and hundreds of nodes, which is awesome.

When working with clients, I tend to compare my experience working with different monitoring platforms to SolarWinds. Without really going too deep in understanding how things are done there and here, they just say, "Oh, you know what? We want SolarWinds." I'd say, "That's fine, so let's do SolarWinds."

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it_user577521 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech services company

I personally did not previously use a different solution. A lot of my customers do use other stuff, such as Paessler’s PRTG and so on, but I wasn't.

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it_user153747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin Team Lead at a government with 501-1,000 employees

We previously used WhatsUpGold, which has a fraction of the features for a tenth of the price. Moving to SolarWinds was a huge jump for our management since they were moving from a $3,000 - $4,000 solution to something which costs us $30,000 - 40,000 (5 SolarWinds products). I showed management the feature request page for NPM. What they noticed right away was that 50% of the feature requests had a "what we're working on" tag. With SolarWinds, management gets visibility into our infrastructure without them having to ask us questions. They can look themselves, it's all there. The fact that SolarWinds listens to customer feedback and requests makes all the difference.

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

We did not use a different solution previous to SolarWinds. 

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

I have used several competing solutions over the years and always come back to SolarWinds’ superiority in function, flexibility, support, and price.

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it_user347748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Analyst at CS Softwares.

We did, and we switched because the interface is more user friendly and easier to configure.

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

We used network instruments. For what we were trying to accomplish it was not just doing it to the level we needed and it was not very straight forward to use either.

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

It is fully depends on the costing, customer, and architect.

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

We were using Big Brother, HostMonitor, OpManager and HPE OpenView. We migrated as a part of the initiative to consolidate the monitoring system into one platform.

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it_user579453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech services company

Before this solution, we used Spiceworks. SolarWinds had the nicest single-pane-of-glass monitoring solution, so we decided to go that route.

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it_user167964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer with 51-200 employees

No other solution used before, but looked at many.

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

I do not know of any other solution my school district has used.

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

No other product in the market offers as much as SolarWinds does for the price. Great value.

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

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

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

Prior to this solution, we were using HP NNM, the Network Node Manager. With HP the monitoring was in silos, whereas SolarWinds gives us a unified dashboard. This is the reason that we switched.

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

We were actually previously using SolarWinds. Then, we stopped and used another vendor for a similar purpose. Then, we stopped using them and went back to SolarWinds.

We switched back to SolarWinds because of ease of use. It was just so completely simple and easy to use. Everyone voted for it, and we got it.

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

In general, it is mainly switching from open-source systems to a supported system.

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

Previously WhatsUp Gold.

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

Setup is straightforward and smooth, just need to follow the installation wizard. Having worked with various open source and vendor specific NMS solutions, among vendor independent solutions such as WhatsUP, OpManager and Solarwinds NPM I always preferred NPM.

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

We had Openview for the network side but the cost forced us to switch and it has actually ended up better for us in the long term.

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

No, as NPM it is cost effective and reliable to use.

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

We have used PRTG, MRTG. However Solarwinds is a more integrated suite to tools for the enterprise or provider.

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it_user616932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a educational organization

We were using Intermapper previously.

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

I was using an open-source solution that was not scalable.

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it_user83385 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I used Concord before and it is limited to monitoring network devices. Well, I think that's the only license that my previous company had with it. I did not switch because I liked the product, I simply switched companies that already is using the product. View full review »
it_user577329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Management at a media company with 10,001+ employees

I have been forced to use a variety of other products with other clients, but most have migrated to NPM after an evaluation. Simplicity in use, in administration & the ability to present anything that management or the business wants is a killer to other products.

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

Older systems that were part of a legacy network and platform that were not well kept and didn’t have many features we were looking for. During RFP’s we narrowed it down to a couple of vendors with Solarwinds at the time taking the lead.

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

Yes. We still use those as backup: SCOM and Omnivista.

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

We previously used WhatsUp Gold.

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it_user218772 - PeerSpot reviewer
PC Support Technician at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

No previous solution was used.

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

I am still using PRTG.

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

Yes. SolarWinds offers more detail.

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

We didn't have any network monitoring when I started with the company, and SolarWinds was already there.

My most important criteria when selecting a vendor is support, onsite.

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

I haven't used another solution like NPM before.

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it_user168066 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Netcool was just an outdated system.

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

We previously used a different solution. We switched for better, more detailed service reporting.

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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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.