SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Valuable Features
What my organization likes best about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its easy deployment. It's also well-integrated in terms of monitoring because my organization also uses a SolarWinds solution for monitoring. You can connect SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer directly to that monitoring tool to get information.
My organization also finds the default graphs that appear before the configuration in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer very useful.
View full review »What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications.
View full review »The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it watches how your network is doing, checks the traffic, and warns you if there might be problems. It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
March 2024
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The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth.
Another solid feature of SolarWinds NTA is their reports. They offer real-time traffic reports that show updates every five to 10 seconds.
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IanReilly
Manager at QMUL
The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network.
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Dr. SureshHungenahally
Chief Executive Officer at Suraksha
The configuration and ease of deployment are great. Within half a day, you can start seeing the traffic data coming in. Over a period of time, you can gradually improve the quality of the data and the sampling rate. For example, let's say you have got a new network or a new extension to a network, and you want to see its behavior. You cannot wait two or three days as you'll get hacked. With this, within a few hours, you can just bring the MPM or APM, any other SolarWinds product, and immediately you can start seeing the traffic coming in.
The deployment is fast and easy.
It doesn't cost too much.
View full review »What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it.
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use.
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reviewer1183797
Senior Network Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
In the case of ThousandEyes, the feature I've found most valuable is that it is an active synthetic monitoring tool. It provides per-hub packet loss latency information across the private and public internet. This provides us with capability outside our network.
SolarWinds is traditional. It's old school and SNMP-based. It provides event-triggered alarms. We rely on the features to monitor our network device to see if it is online or not. It tells us if the interface is down or up or if the device is down or up.
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reviewer1427196
Network Services Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical. We have our threshold set at 80%, which means that when we hit that capacity, it's time to start looking at things like whether there is a problem in the network or whether an increase in bandwidth needs to take place. Essentially, it gives us a tool where we can manage our business proactively instead of reactively.
I have 19 direct reports that use this product.
View full review »The analytics are pretty good.
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MarkS
IT Analyst at Hawkbridge Consultants
In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth.
Quite a lot of our internal investigations are actually using the Network Traffic Analyzer to find out which computers are soaking up the network bandwidth.
View full review »What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature.
View full review »NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility.
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Bill Lamon
Information Technology Manager at B&I Contractors
The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization. When we are alerted then we know that we have to look further into the issue.
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Michael_Hall
Network Engineer at Brookfield Property
The NCM module is by far the most useful feature, as I am able to provision and employ changes to our entire infrastructure with a single tool.
I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic.
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Asem Arafat
IT Director at NEDCO
It's a fantastic product overall, so it is difficult to define one feature being the best.
It is fantastic to know the Traffic Analyzer can show us where the potential problems are. You become very familiar with the bandwidth being consumed by different lines and how all the traffic is moving between different departments and different applications.
At times, we faced a lot of issues with users on the internet because of the consumption of the bandwidth. It was very hard to try to find exactly what was going on and what applications affected traffic. With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption.
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Mohamed Talbi
Network and Security Engineer at Neurones
The most valuable functions are the ability to show the Network Flow and the system of escalation.
View full review »The solution's most valuable feature is the network monitoring system. As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business.
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reviewer1142772
Control Department Head of Information Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time.
We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution.
DU
reviewer1424007
IT Project Lead - Danone North America at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it. Even if you don't have an integrator or somebody teaching you how to use it, you could probably pick it up pretty easily.
View full review »The network performance monitor I have embedded has been able to give me a customized dashboard. The dashboard alerts me when a critical device would go off in the network. I get an SMS alarm.
View full review »I find the IT Operation Management Suite, the software management tools from SolarWinds, to be very useful for our customers.
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reviewer1074924
Networks Lead Engineer at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The GUI is simple and easy to use.
The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth.
It provides the ability to track users to see who is generating higher amounts of traffic and what the person is doing.
The notifications are helpful.
At the end of the day, you can get very comprehensive reports showing you everything that is happening in the domain.
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reviewer1054686
Managing Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Everything is done in the Orion Suite, so you can look there to find dashboards and reports.
The integration with other SolarWinds products is good. It works well in combination with the other tools.
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reviewer1065336
Senior System Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment.
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Crismar Baste
Senior Tech Support Engineer | Project Implementation Head at a tech company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features are:
- The bandwidth analyzer
- The monitoring
- The network Analyzer
- It has overall good performance
- Easy deployment.
MA
reviewer1229574
Head of Network Department at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis.
View full review »The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.