We performed a comparison between Grafana Enterprise Stack and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance, from 10 AM to 2 PM, we may experience high memory utilization. It helps us to solve these issues."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana Enterprise Stack is the dashboards."
"The most valuable features of Grafana for data visualization are its ability to create intuitive dashboards and its wide range of visualization options like graphs, charts, and tables."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"SolarWinds NPM provides an overview of network monitoring, extending its capabilities to cover other aspects, such as virtual machines and servers. The platform has features like NetPath, which is particularly beneficial for end-users, offering insights into issues like latency, packet loss, and connectivity problems with routers, switches, or servers."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."
"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."
"The solution should include integration with Power BI."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
Grafana Enterprise Stack is ranked 55th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 3 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Grafana Enterprise Stack is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana Enterprise Stack writes "Offers simplicity and effectiveness in handling our monitoring needs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Grafana Enterprise Stack is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, OpsRamp, Dell CloudIQ and EV Observe, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Grafana Enterprise Stack vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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