The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth.
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What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it.
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use.
Control Department Head of Information Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-12-27T09:08:12Z
Dec 27, 2020
For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time.
We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution.
The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment.
In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth.
SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer enables you to capture data from continuous streams of network traffic and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that quantify exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose.
It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance.
It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents.
I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten.
The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network.
The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth.
What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature.
NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility.
It doesn't cost too much.
What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it.
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use.
The software management tools are very useful for our customers.
For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time.
We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution.
The integration with other SolarWinds products is good.
They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it.
The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical.
What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment.
The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment.
The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth.
The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization.
SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert.
The program is scalable enough for our usage.
The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis.
The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment.
In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth.
With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption.
I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic.
The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network.