SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Reviews

The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it watches how your network is doing, checks the traffic, and warns you if there might be problems. It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance.

In terms of improvement, it can be complex to set up and configure, and the user guides provided can also be complex, especially when dealing with certain configuration aspects. Improved SQL capabilities would be useful in the future.

I have been using SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for four years. 

It is a stable product.

It is a fairly scalable product. There are one thousand users at our company. I would not recommend it for smaller businesses.

The technical support is good. They are very responsive. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

Positive

It is very complex to set up and SolarWinds has to send someone from their team to assist with that.

We have definitely seen a return on investment with NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.

The product is not too expensive. The license is renewed yearly. When it comes to support for NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it might cost extra. Usually, we pay for support each year, and it lasts for one year. After that, it needs to be renewed separately.

It is a valuable tool, particularly for modeling and optimizing network systems. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

We use this solution for traffic analysis.

The analytics are pretty good.

For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten.

Approximately 20 people in our IT department use this solution.

The initial setup was easy, and I'd rate it at eight out of ten.

I would recommend the solution and rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten with one being the worst and ten being the best.

This solution allows me to see what we are using in terms of bandwidth on the WAN. I can use that in conjunction with Observium to figure out what endpoint on the network is pulling a lot of data, and what type of data it is.

One of the problems is that I am using two different products with two different dashboards to chase down the same problem. The bandwidth analyzer alerts me to the issue of excessive bandwidth usage, but then I have to look at the second product to figure out where. I have to find out what switch, what port, and potentially what host, so it takes a little bit of investigating to really narrow down what's going on.

This solution gives us a simple way to monitor traffic that is coming in and out. It shows me how much bandwidth is both inbound and outbound, and it is shown clearly on the dashboard.

The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization. When we are alerted then we know that we have to look further into the issue.

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.

I have been using the SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer for between two and three years.

This is a stable solution. It works and I really don't have any issue with it.

There are three of us who use this solution from an administrative point of view. I am the manager of the department, there is a senior engineer, and there is a junior network engineer who uses it as well.

We did not have anything in place before implementing this solution.

The initial setup was straightforward.

One of my internal engineers deployed this solution within the company.

This was a good solution when we began using it a few years ago. However, now as the company is growing, I have more data lines coming in and I have more endpoints, I want to combine products. I'm looking for a single pane of glass dashboard to keep an eye on the entire infrastructure. As it is now, I have three dashboards that I have to keep track of.

Right now, this solution is doing what I need it to do. There is probably more room for improvement but I use the product in a simplistic way so there are things that I have not learned about it. Ideally, I would like a single product that does everything we need.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

We have a collection of SolarWinds solutions.

Our primary use for this tool is to monitor our network. We have a LAN and WAN to monitor. We use the product to get an overview of the performance to let us predict potential issues and act preemptively before we have real problems. The product helps us monitor the load on the network and on the different network lines. 

We are planning to expand our use because they offer some good advantages with broader product use. It is used on a daily basis and it is one of the key tools that we use to maintain our network and keep track of our infrastructure.

We are using an on-premises deployment.

We have faced some problems with our Oracle connection line in the past. For example, once we had a remote crash that affected the connection of more than two hundred users. So we've faced this kind of delay on our network. So, when this happens, we would go first to check the load on the connection line (we have a fibre connection) and we would check the traffic speed and the volume of data on the line. With Netflow Traffic Analyzer, it was very helpful to find out when the line was getting more congested.

Recently, there was some problem with one of the applications that we upgraded to. We could see the problem and we took all the necessary action to get things back into normal before the issue had a chance to get worse. SolarWinds helps us to monitor potential issues so we and our users do not experience downtime.

It's a fantastic product overall, so it is difficult to define one feature being the best.

It is fantastic to know the Traffic Analyzer can show us where the potential problems are. You become very familiar with the bandwidth being consumed by different lines and how all the traffic is moving between different departments and different applications.

At times, we faced a lot of issues with users on the internet because of the consumption of the bandwidth. It was very hard to try to find exactly what was going on and what applications affected traffic. With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption.

One of the things that can be improved is the licensing, as it is limited to a number of nodes. They limit it to five hundred nodes before jumping to the next level. When we exceeded that limit, we had to go directly to two thousand nodes. We did not really need that many but I still had to pay for that. The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments. For example, one thousand nodes would have been enough. Jumping to four times the volume was too much.

We recently upgraded to a more recent version of this solution and we had an issue with backing up the data. We were unable to make proper use of the databases from the previous version.

This is a stable solution and we are happy with the product.

This is a scalable solution, but it is related to the licensing.

I have not personally contacted technical support for this solution. The feedback that I have received from my team is that the support is good.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The feedback I got from the person who performed the initial setup is good. He's happy with the product and is continuing to do the upgrades as we need them.

My understanding is that the deployment took less than two hours.

Our own technical team handled the implementation, and we did not need any help from anybody outside of the company.

We have three people who are taking care of our network. There is the network manager and his two staff.

The licensing for this solution is based on the number of nodes.

There were members of our team who had experience with other solutions, but we adopted this one after installing and using the evaluation version.

We are planning on upgrading to the SL2000 model.

As of today, I am satisfied with this solution.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

As all networks have bottlenecks and some problems, people would like to understand the source of the issues, so they choose to buy SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.

What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature.

As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive.

Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better.

We've sold SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for around two years.

Stability-wise, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is eighty percent stable.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is a scalable solution.

Support for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer was done over email, but it's not good enough. On a scale of one to five, my rating for the support team is three.

We decided to become distributors for PRTG, after working with SolarWinds.

The initial setup for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer was easy. It could take two hours depending on the network size.

Customers did the deployment for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer through in-house teams.

Licensing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is paid yearly, and there are no additional costs that you need to pay apart from the standard licensing fees because you don't need to purchase another solution to make SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer work.

Pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is more expensive than other solutions.

I have experience with SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because my company was previously a SolarWinds distributor. My company is now a PRTG distributor, particularly an exclusive distributor, to protect resellers. SolarWinds has several distributors in the area, so my company decided to go with PTRG.

My company provided the latest version of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer was deployed on-premises because it was what people wanted.

My company was a reseller of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.

Two persons can handle the deployment and maintenance of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. One technician or engineer from the customer-side, and one from my company.

I wouldn't recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to others, unless pricing is lowered.

I'm rating SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer seven out of ten. I didn't give it a higher score because it's an expensive solution.

Our primary use case for this solution is traffic analysis.

The solution can be improved by including a blog portion with SolarWinds NTA and also advanced money for logs.

We have been using this solution for approximately six years.

The solution is stable.

We have had a good experience with customer service and support. They are knowledgable and cooperative. I rate our experience with them eight out of ten.

Positive

We did not previously use any other solution.

The initial setup was straightforward. I rate the initial setup process as eight out of ten. It took approximately two weeks because we had to implement VR with it.

Implementation was conducted in-house.

I cannot comment on the price as another team handles it.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. The solution is good, and the technical support team is cooperative, but the solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools.

We use this solution for everyday network monitoring. This includes the flow analytics, and seeing what's online and what's not online. It is a key part of everyday operations.

Visibility in the network is huge. Using the NetFlow analyzer, along with their NPM and NCM modules, are key for keeping our network up to date and for visibility.

This solution is a huge time saver. Without it, you're making and you're analyzing flow patterns and making changes on a switch by switch, or router by router basis. This gives you that single pane of glass where you can really manage all of that, and push out to all of your devices no matter what the size of your environment is.

The NCM module is by far the most useful feature, as I am able to provision and employ changes to our entire infrastructure with a single tool. 

I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic.

This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself. After dealing with a bunch of other vendors who are very security-focused, it would be nice to see that included in other products as well. It may be a case where they have not kept up with certain security aspects as technology has changed.

I would like to see visual maps for all of the devices that are interconnected. They do have a feature that exists now, but I think that it can be worked on. There are some competitors out there that are doing a better job at that.

The solution is stable.

This solution is limitless and scales very well. You can use these tools for a single branch network or your entire enterprise and there is no difference in the deployment. 

There was no solution in place before this one. The network really scaled up quickly, and it had not been necessary before adding more branch properties led to more problems. 

The original deployment was completed before I started to work with the system, so I am not sure who deployed it. As we scale, it is us, the engineers, who do it all ourselves. I feel that it speaks to the product because we don't actually need professional services, as it's pretty easy to do it yourself.

This solution makes us more effective, allowing us to save time.

For our environment, we pay approximately $25,000 USD yearly. It is a lot cheaper than a lot of the other vendors.

I know that we evaluated NetBrain. Although they do not necessarily claim to be a network monitoring tool, a lot of the features offered by SolarWinds are also available. My understanding is that the price point was an issue.

My advice to anybody who is researching this type of solution is to know your environment. Regardless of the vendor you choose, know the costs associated with all of your endpoints.

I love using the tools provided in this solution. There is always room for improvement, but ultimately, I have always been happy with this product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I mainly use NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to analyse traffic, for example, during meetings. I also use it to block high-authorization end-users to ensure the meeting goes smoothly.

I've been using NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for a year and a half.

I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is scalable.

SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable.

Neutral

The initial setup was easy, and deployment took one to two months. 

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably priced.

I would give NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of eight out of ten.