We performed a comparison between Darktrace and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like about Darktrace, is that you can quickly identify threats."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's a very stable product."
"Darktrace is very flexible."
"Darktrace's most valuable features are that it understands the network environment and is able to trace the traffic and alert on anomalies."
"We liked their approach to identifying intrusions or network anomalies using AI."
"We are able to detect a lot of things, actually, and see what is happening in our network."
"The solution is stable. We've never had any problems with it."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"Darktrace could improve its features, such as monitoring and detecting ransomware."
"One thing that I would like to look at going forward is to have a fully automated network infrastructure that is monitored automatically real-time, and that gives me this kind of capability where I would be able to look at my network at any given time and see the state of my network. With Darktrace, at the moment, I have to almost put in a date and tell them that want you to give me data from this date to this date. I don't want that. I want a fast solution in which it doesn't matter when I log into the application. Whenever I log in, I must be able to see my network and run a report. In other words, if I go in now and I say, "Give me a full report of what happened today, it must be able to give me that. It mustn't just be limited to a seven-day period, for argument's sake. It must be able to give me real-time and day-to-day tracking of what has happened within my network."
"It's a very complex platform."
"There aren't so many third-party vendor platforms natively integrated with the platform."
"They just need to work on their price. In terms of features, we are trying to understand all the features that we have. We're still exploring everything that we have so that we can fully utilize it. At this point in time, it is not about the features. It is more about utilization. We're just trying to utilize everything to full capacity."
"Darktrace needs to automate the reports of false positives, botnets and everything."
"The pricing is a bit high for the region."
"I would like to see some additional enhancements."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
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Darktrace is ranked 1st in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 65 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and ScienceLogic. See our Darktrace vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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