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SolarWinds NPM vs Sumo Logic Observability comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
SolarWinds NPM's support is knowledgeable but faces issues in response speed, sales tactics, and customization support options.
Sentiment score
8.2
Sumo Logic Observability's customer service is highly rated, with quick responses and helpful support, particularly for advanced and OpenTelemetry issues.
We had contact with SolarWinds regarding the implementation, and they were helpful.
They have good technical support.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.0
SolarWinds NPM faces challenges with accuracy, user interface, scalability, support, stability, resource use, and pricing concerns.
Sentiment score
4.6
The system requires efficiency improvements in data usage, cost management, enrichment, search interface, query speed, and pre-built dashboards.
SolarWinds needs to upscale on observability and add full-fledged observability features, including security features.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
SolarWinds NPM is scalable and adaptable, with flexible deployments but may need dedicated hardware for optimal performance.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sumo Logic Observability scales efficiently for diverse users, handling peak records with ease, supported by Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.
SolarWinds NPM is scalable and effective in handling large network infrastructures.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
6.3
SolarWinds NPM offers competitive pricing but can be costly; complex licensing and additional fees may impact smaller businesses.
No sentiment score available
<p>Sumo Logic Observability provides flexible, competitive pricing for enterprises, but additional costs may apply for advanced features and high data volumes.</p>
The solution is considered expensive.
Pricing-wise, SolarWinds NPM is more expensive than PRTG.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Properly managed SolarWinds NPM is stable, with fewer issues in updated versions, relying on infrastructure planning and resource allocation.
Sentiment score
8.9
Sumo Logic Observability is highly reliable, with users experiencing no issues and rating its reliability a perfect ten for enterprises.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.8
SolarWinds NPM offers easy deployment, intuitive monitoring, customizable dashboards, multi-vendor support, scalability, and community-driven enhancements for proactive management.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sumo Logic Observability offers real-time alerting, apps, team collaboration, easy integration, and a flexible query language, boosting incident resolution.
The most valuable feature for us is the database performance analyzer, which we use a lot.
SolarWinds NPM has specific modules for monitoring different network capabilities, which provides rich features for carrying out specific tasks.
 

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds NPM
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
157
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (4th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th)
Sumo Logic Observability
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
23rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (25th), AIOps (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of SolarWinds NPM is 6.0%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sumo Logic Observability is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MohitKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface
The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market. The solution supports many vendors by default and just included Meraki SDN with the new release, but continued expansion is important. We created a custom method to pair with unsupported vendors but that can produce a lag in performance so future releases should expand SDN support. The solution does a good job of automating features but could expand that even more.
David Onuh - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy creation of custom fields, no need to alter applications; supports ten active logging applications simultaneously and faster than aster than default search tools
Alerting and consistency are key. We have different tiers with log collectors, and continuous querying provides near-real-time updates. It's almost like instantly when something happens, like pending transactions or error fees. This helps reduce incident resolution time compared to waiting for thresholds on other platforms. We can continue logging in with them seamlessly and quickly get into action. Another valuable feature is easy custom field creation in Sumo Logic. For example, recently, we had Sumo collect all our container tier load data. Containers can be expensive with heavy logging, so we only wanted important information there. We easily created custom fields without changing our applications because Sumo supported, I think, ten active logging applications at the time. These are heavy applications. Rerouting everything for that field change would have been difficult. So, configuring Sumo Logic, adding a new field, and having applications update that specific field was convenient. Sumo Logic automatically identified different logic categories for us.
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2015
Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
56%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Government
4%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Transportation Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
It actually depends on the exact purpose or kind of devices (network devices, servers, something else). Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better for a cloud monitoring...
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
We are partners with SolarWinds and we sell a lot of Network management to large enterprises also because of scalability, products like Network Performance Monitor &amp; Netflow Traffic Analyzer ar...
What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Observability?
The speed of queries could be improved. When using more advanced functions, especially with large datasets like the 90-day log retention we had, queries could be slow, sometimes taking up to five m...
What is your primary use case for Sumo Logic Observability?
We used it for log observability – log aggregation specifically.
 

Also Known As

Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor, SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft, Federal Express, Hewlett-Packard, and MasterCard
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