We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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."Monitoring capabilities are at a high level and it is easy to see utilization, access ports, and CPU memory in real time or through a lens for long-term visualization."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"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."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring gives us complete visibility without the need for storage."
"The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"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"
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 13th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 23 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, Amazon CloudWatch and ITRS Geneos. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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