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."The most valuable feature is the NMS because that's the core of the system. Without the NMS, the other tools aren't that usable."
"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."
"Its ability to monitor practically any type of network device via SNMP is most valuable. This is the main functionality that we're using. If a network device exposes a metric, such as interface utilization, SevOne will monitor it for us."
"The automation feature is good because if your CMDB is OK and it is already in sync, then the automation part is good to go."
"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."
"It also gives us the closest thing to real-time insight into network performance that we have, with just a 10-second delay. It's very important for us to know the health of the infrastructure very quickly."
"Scalability. I have never had to worry about how to handle really big environments."
"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."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"With the administrative management of the appliance, if some object appears from SevOne because something changed in the network or whatever, then as an administrator you will not be aware. If you are using this object in a report, this object will disappear from the report and you will not be aware of it. So, if you have 1,000 reports, you cannot always check these reports everyday to see if objects are missing or information has disappeared. We don't have any information on alerts, saying that something is happening there and maybe we need to take action. If an object was replaced by another one, or if a link was replaced by another one, then the graph needs to be changed because it doesn't exist in the graph anymore. However, we don't have this information."
"We previously have had discussions on some reporting enhancements. So, we raised a feature request, which was delivered from SevOne."
"You need to plan integrations. That has been the biggest bug with SevOne so far. For the things that SevOne pulls directly, those are easy to understand, modify, and put into the database. For things that need to use the Universal Collector or xStats, you need to plan that stuff well in advance."
"The GUI: both the dashboard/user view and the admin tool."
"The reporting of NMS is good, but it could be better."
"The tool needs improvement in non-Cisco SD-WAN."
"The reports are easy to configure but they are a bit outdated in terms of appearance and visualization."
"User-friendly, multi-tenancy."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 34th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 53 reviews while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 44th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 2 reviews. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.4, while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.6. 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 Network Device Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security, SolarWinds NPM and Dynatrace, whereas Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk, Opsview and PRTG Network Monitor.
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