We performed a comparison between Observer Apex 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."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"I like SolarWinds support because it's 24/7. You describe your issues, your situation and maybe two or three hours later you can discuss a solution with a technical engineer."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"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 does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
Observer Apex is ranked 94th in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Observer Apex is rated 0.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Observer Apex is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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