We performed a comparison between SolarWinds ipMonitor and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"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 product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"It is scalable."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 71st in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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