PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs SolarWinds NPM comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (11th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (8th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)
SolarWinds NPM
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
148
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (4th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 34.5%, up from 30.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds NPM is 3.6%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management
Unique Categories:
Process Automation
0.1%
AIOps
0.3%
Network Monitoring Software
6.4%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
4.0%
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Blonsky - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 21, 2022
Customizable, useful policies, and reliable
We use PagerDuty for alerting and escalations. We have it integrated with our monitoring tools PagerDuty integrates well with many other monitoring applications, it provides us with a centralized view of what can be configured in terms of escalations, and who's on call.  We can control who is…
SK
Jul 5, 2022
Good customization, helpful features, and great reliability
If we go for the NT license, then we have to purchase the NPM, Network Performance Monitor. That is a dependency. In all of the SolarWinds products now, there are only these products. For example, Net Traffic Analyzer is a product. If we go for the licensing, then we have to purchase a Network Performance Monitor. There's dependency there. If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful. The NT is the enhanced version of the NPM. They have not put a license on the different monitors of the NT. However, they have to include in the same manner in the NPM itself. For NetPath services, right now, we have to manually install the events in the nodes. If there was something from the console side, we could post the event to the nodes. If there was automation, that would be helpful. Already there's automation for other types of things or in other features, like for communication of the nodes. However, for the NetPath feature, if we could automatically move the event from the console side to the application side, that would be a great feature.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It reduces the amount of white noise. If something comes through, then it will alert somebody. However, if it's a bit of white noise that comes through at night, then it gets dealt with the next day. Everything is visible to everybody. It's not just a single person getting an SMS, then going, "Oh, I'm not going to worry about that." The visibility to everybody on the team is one of the great things about it because it reduces the white noise."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"The most valuable features of PagerDuty are customization, access, policies, and different rules regarding the path of escalation. Additionally, it's easy to use and create overrides. For example, if you all are on a call for one week each, but somebody wants to go on PTO, the team needs to swap shifts in PagerDuty. This is easy to do by creating overrides to switch up the set schedules. It's very user-friendly in that aspect. It works well for monitoring and alerting."
"The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls."
"PagerDuty's best features are the dedicated application that allows me to reach my engineers immediately and the ability to directly assign specific tasks to individuals and have them report back."
"PagerDuty's notification process is the most valuable feature."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
 

Cons

"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."
"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that."
"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."
"The solution does not code all alerts correctly so sometimes you get false positives or multiple alerts for the same issue."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"It cannot be integrated with our upgraded Jira system."
"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"Consolidation of platforms would provide a smoother experience."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"It would be good to have high security."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
"The price is very high."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"The NPM component of the system costs approximately $1,000 USD per year."
"Some solutions are open source and free."
"The standard licensing fees are what we're paying. It's about $20,000 a year for all our licensing."
"Though I don't remember the price for SolarWinds NPM, its price is somewhat okay when you compare it with other tools in the market. The price isn't too high and isn't too low, so it's okay."
"When I compare the cost of CA Spectrum to that of SolarWinds NPM, the cost of CA Spectrum is way too high, and the cost of SolarWinds NPM is pretty low."
"You have to license it per year, for the support. You don't really need to have support once you've already set it up. Once you install SolarWinds, you can skip on the licensing. It will still work."
"We have a multi-year license for the use of this solution. There are additional costs for recourses in the environment."
"SolarWinds NPM has different pricing models available. The cost of the solution is less than some competitors."
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2015
Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
51%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The price is very high. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The license for stakeholders is very limited.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
It’s quite hard to reach the support team.
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
It actually depends on the exact purpose or kind of devices (network devices, servers, something else). Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better for a cloud monitoring...
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
We are partners with SolarWinds and we sell a lot of Network management to large enterprises also because of scalability, products like Network Performance Monitor & Netflow Traffic Analyzer ar...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor, SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast
Microsoft, Federal Express, Hewlett-Packard, and MasterCard
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