We performed a comparison between IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) and Instana Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."SevOne has rich API capabilities, giving us the flexibility to control what we collect and customize the collection, creation, and manipulation of now metrics as necessary."
"The SMP and the xStats, which is for flat file integration, are both useful for integrating the various metrics that the device provides to monitor the performance of those systems."
"The network data collection has been very flexible for us. It's been thorough in areas that were lacking. They have a team that I've worked with to add other pieces to it. So if it's missing something out of the box, they work with me to add it. I was able to collect that data. It's not perfect, but it's pretty thorough."
"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 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."
"In 90% of the cases, new devices are plug-and-play, so when a new version comes out then SevOne has support for it out of the box."
"Flexible architecture: You can extend the system and its capacity by attaching another cluster pair."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the scale-up and scale-down. The scale-up is an operation where the CPU boosts-up and then the memory will boost-up. That works awesomely."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"High-frequency polling is data-intensive because you're pulling more. If SevOne could figure out a way to manage the impact of high-frequency polling on the system, that would be very popular."
"The reports are easy to configure but they are a bit outdated in terms of appearance and visualization."
"The user management features need to be improved. It would be nice if we had more granular control, or layers of control, out of the box."
"Software upgrades can be tricky is not easy."
"The method of searching for SIP and the way to create the groups."
"The tool needs improvement in non-Cisco SD-WAN."
"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."
"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."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 23rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 52 reviews while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 42nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.6, while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.0. 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 Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is most compared with LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Splunk Enterprise Security, Zabbix and DX Spectrum, whereas Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk, Opsview and Splunk APM.
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