We performed a comparison between IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) and Snare based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."
"We find that the reporting is particularly valuable in terms of not only communicating with our peer teams but also with the executives."
"The monitoring of the network is very customizable. That is its unique feature."
"SevOne’s data collection functionality is very good. From a collection point of view, we pull SNMP data, which is simple. It is easy to manipulate the pull in the estate. It is really simple compared to some of the other products that we have used. However, for deferred data, i.e., things that we import or don't pull directly, we tend to have a preplanned integration. So, its Universal Collector is really useful."
"The modules and the performance management reports that come with data insights are two of the most valuable features. I also find the reports for Wi-Fi, Netflow, LAN, and WAN for monitoring to be very good."
"It's given us the ability to create various real-time network performance reports and distribute them to any colleague who can access these reports immediately."
"We have benefited mainly from the use of the dashboard interface. It makes the network visually interesting for other people who are not in the network. A lot of people are not network techies who understand streams in the network. Based on location, we have streams coming in and out. They can see visually when there is some problem. They don't need to understand all the network technology behind it to be able to understand if everything is working well or if there is a problem."
"With this tool it is interesting to show the info to the client and explain where the traffic is."
"The most valuable feature of Snare is flexibility or the ability to filter all things you don't want and don't have security value."
"Snare has good agents, especially for Windows."
"The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency."
"In terms of having a complete view of our network performance, I would rate it a nine out of 10. The reason for not giving it a 10 is that there is no packet capture associated with SevOne, but we do have other tools in place to do that."
"User-friendly, multi-tenancy."
"The one area with room for improvement is probably administration. They added data insights to make a better user experience, but I'd like to see some improvements in the way the system's administered."
"The reporting of NMS is good, but it could be better."
"The customizations are very hard. The person doing it has to be very good at analytics and has to be very good in all languages"
"SevOne should work with the graphs legend functionality."
"I'm not really sure if this was the software's fault or a server issue, but a couple of years back the disks were failing on our SevOne physical server every month and the server would go down. The secondary server took over from the primary until the disk issue was resolved. That was annoying."
"There are a lot of pain points. My main problem is that we don't have a high availability system. There are 20 peers. We're going to lose the end-of-life appliances that are old. If we lose a peer and it doesn't come back, we lose all that data. The reason we don't have high availability is because it's double the charge."
"The solution is now developing a SIEM-like feature on Snare Central Server, but it's not complete yet."
"Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare."
"Snare should modernize its GUI a little bit."
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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 31st in Log Management with 52 reviews while Snare is ranked 41st in Log Management with 3 reviews. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.6, while Snare is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) writes "We can get a new vendor certified and monitored in our system significantly faster than before". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snare writes "A highly scalable solution that is easy to manage and super easy to set up". IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is most compared with Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Snare is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, syslog-ng, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, LogRhythm SIEM and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM). See our IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs. Snare report.
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