We performed a comparison between Iris Session Analyzer and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Auvik and others in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)."The feature that I have found the most useful is the decode of packets. It gives us a variety of information that helps us in figuring out what to look at. The networks are getting really complex, and without the information that we get from Iris Session Analyzer, we couldn't do our job. Its graphical user interface is also very easy to use and intuitive."
"A great feature is the memory utilization graph."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."
"The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"They can increase flexibility in the search engine. Basically, I go with the information I have at the time. If I could just type in the parameter that I want to search for and its value, it might be easier than having to do the groundwork upfront before I can get my traces."
"Sometimes the network analyzer will show that a server is down when it's actually working."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
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Iris Session Analyzer is ranked 13th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 2 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Iris Session Analyzer is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Iris Session Analyzer writes "Provides a memory utilization graph and shows disk space and uplink utilization but could include smart navigation in next release". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Iris Session Analyzer is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Darktrace.
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