We performed a comparison between Flowmon and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution is stable."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"The licensing price could be better."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"The product is scalable, but at a cost. Extra modules have to be purchased for each extra server. The initial set up isn't complex, but will require someone who is experienced with the network monitoring system"
Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Flowmon is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, WhatsUp Gold and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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