Network Performance Monitor Reviews

It has features for real-time network monitoring, automated network discovery, advanced network alerting, and wireless network monitoring.

The UI has a basic design. The visuals aren't the best.

The features of Network Performance Monitor are easy to understand.
I also love the accuracy of Network Performance Monitor.

Network Performance Monitor is easy to use and flawless.
Network Performance Monitor meets our needs.

The tool does what you need it to do from a network performance standpoint. The features allow your typical network monitoring, including devices applications and services. As such it helps to troubleshoot and avoid unnecessary downtime.

Product feels dated and the performance is pretty bad when compared to other tools out there that are cheaper

I am impressed by the accuracy of Network Performance Monitor.
Network Performance Monitor is easy to use.

I do not dislike Network Performance Monitor at all..
Network Performance Monitor is exceptional.

Ease of implementation and usage we see a lot!

The interface could use a refresh and I hope its coming on a future release soon

NPM is one of the best Network performance Monitoring software out there, it allows me to add any type of objects within my Network Environment, Network nodes, Server nodes either Windows or Linux, and i can select the elements that i need to add & add the needed reports & alerts based on my needs.

What is least that i like about it is that when it crashes, or stops all of a sudden, then the Alerts & the Reports stop working & i have to login to the Application server to troubleshoot the problem, yet the support is always good & helping.

Fast, clear status of performance and possible outages.
Easy integration with other tools and custom alert mechanisms.
A focused company who is very involved in making great tutorials.

The GUI is starting to look dated, it could use a complete overhaul.
License needs can be tricky to determine.

This has to be by far the best networking and services monitoring tool I have ever used. It is rich in features and it just works.

It is an amazing system and I would recommend to anyone. It is however a little time consuming to set it up, for some people even a little challenging.

Stable, easy to us. Customizable reports.

Sencers cost then software costs are too muchNo active support.

Complete network monitoring tool. Allows you a near single pane of glass approach to you network. You have details and i mean details about every server, switch, I even have my consumable good inventory vending machines monitored with NPM. Detailed level for switch ports and routers, Cisco UCS, HP, DELL, and the list goes on and on. When there is no identified MIB, you can create your own. You can label your undefined items so they mean something to you. The Agent for servers installs on Windows and Linux and is SO EASY. It offers WMI, SNMP and ICMP monitoring as well as the agent which gives you several flavors to monitor equipment. Ease of use is good, interface is above average, and saving my score is 1000 out of 10

For me there is only one real things that gets me with NPM. Licensing. SolarWinds has a great set of products, but the licensing costs are really high. Even a small company needs this software but its hard to justify. The way they count nodes against your license total is in my opinion unfair. I think of a server as a node, and everything on that server should be covered as 1 node, but they see everything down to seems like the vlans on a switch port, but to be clear it is not counting vlans. However if you have 2 48 port switches, that is 96 nodes, you want to monitor, guess how fast your 100 node license gets used up. But the price to jump up is super crazy expensive. They need to rework that.

This is one of the good tool , we can easily configure and monitor servers and network devices in SolarWinds.

I think licensing capabilities or complexity can be reduced , sometime I feel its more complex.

Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is by far the industry leader. The system is robust and offers real-time and indepth analysis of network interfaces, nodes, devices, etc.

The platform did some take some time to setup. Unfortunately, some of the alerting can be very vague. There are templated alerts, however, they do not fit the needs of our business. We spent countless man-hours in developing new alerting templates.

Being able to view the traffic levels passing through the circuit or port and being able to view how long it has been down if there is any interruption here are the best aspects for me.

As the number of nodes increases, there may be some slowness.

Easily monitor network devices and their performance .Track for network issues and have to ability to narrow down issues to specific ports. Easily customize view to show only what I need to see.

Not able to limit events across solarwinds platform to only devices I need to monitor. Have to manually Setup maps. (option to purchase mapping software separate) .

SolarWinds NPM (Network Performance Manager) is one of the most gratifying products to use. After installing on a server, you can literally in minutes begin collecting actionable network performance if you have previously configured SNMP on your network equipment. Most of the products integrate, building on each other and adding more value. I have always been impressed with how their new versions add significant features and value for just paying maintenance on the product. Their online training is also very valuable.

More advance features will take more effort to configure and generate actionable results. You can easily be overwhelmed by alerts and syslog if you do not make an effort to manage what you really need to see.

Was easy to setup and maintain and their support seems to be great to work with.

Over time it gets really slow and the server needs rebooted. Nothing I've tried including putting it on a new server seems to rectify this.

This is a full featured product with many optional add on modules to keep a "single pane of glass" for IT departments.

Finding personnel with fine tuning experience, education and knowledge is somewhat difficult at times, making many implementations half completed.

You can see the lines bandwiths and poor cable connection with it.

Sometimes it is freezing and late to open the monitoring page.