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ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer vs. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANetFlow Analyzer is a complete bandwidth monitoring tool that utilizes flow technology to monitor and analyze network bandwidth usage. It helps users identify and avoid bandwidth delays and bottlenecks with customized reports, and set threshold-based email and SMS alerts to help understand the severity of an issue. This analytics tool detects, diagnoses, and troubleshoots network anomalies and zero-day intrusions, and plans future bandwidth needs based on application growth to…N/A

    SolarWinds NPM

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.

    $1,638

    per year

    Pricing
    ManageEngine NetFlow AnalyzerSolarWinds NPM
    Editions & Modules
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    NPM
    $1,638
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine NetFlow AnalyzerSolarWinds NPM
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$595 per installationOptional
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    Community Pulse
    ManageEngine NetFlow AnalyzerSolarWinds NPM
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    32 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    ManageEngine NetFlow AnalyzerSolarWinds NPM
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer and SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
    Feature
    ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
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    Ratings
    SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
    8.2
    231 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.8210 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings8.8231 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings8.6201 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings9.4228 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings7.9188 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.2130 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings7.1190 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings7.9212 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings7.6153 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.4215 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ManageEngine NetFlow AnalyzerSolarWinds NPM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (237 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (28 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    9.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine NetFlow AnalyzerSolarWinds NPM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Identifying network traffic anomalies. Identifying applications, devices, or users that are utilizing high bandwidth. Capacity planning for network links and internet circuits. Detecting potential security threats or breaches. Network performance and troubleshooting. Reporting network utilization.
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds NPM is well suited for medium to large networks, it may be a bit heavy for the SOHO environment as most of the tools and reports are designed for monitoring KPIs which may not be critical for a small shop. NPM can handle large networks with several sites and mixed technologies ranging from networks, server systems, storage devices and SLA reporting.
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    Pros
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Analyze network traffic by breaking it down into conversations with the ability to look at ingress and egress traffic.
    • Gives a quick view of overall performance.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Out of the Monitoring of almost all Network Devices.
    • Build custom pollers to monitor which is not supported out of the box.
    • Further you can alert on these custom metrics and Out of the box metrics.
    • It provides you great dashboards, Reports features.
    • You can integrate it with any MoM layer tools either using its API or sending out traps.
    • Out of the box Integration with Service Now ITSM Tool.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Check Network
    • Check Flows
    • Traffic
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    SolarWinds
    • The software upgrade process is a little hairy and has caused me trouble on occasion.
    • The server that it needs to run is a bit of a resource hog along with the SQL server.
    • Some additional features like the network map are a bit clunky compared to some other products that we use.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The entire IT staff relies on NPM in its daily operations. It would be impossible for us to maintain our level of service without it. If SolarWinds gets to proud of their product and begins to over charge for it, we would be forced to reconsider and use a different product. But as it stands it is worth the price to renew it.
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    Usability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Because the dashboard is visually appealing and offers a wide range of functionality and users can create tailored reports.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is quite an extensive product, covering all our bases and requirements. There are a lot of customizable options and features which you can work with for their alerting which is really useful. I haven't found anything yet which I thought SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) could do, but it actually couldn't so overall it works nicely and does the job.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Always available. Always is important to plan the software available during the machine/application setup.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
    Pages load slow, especially the bettors map. Could be that my server is old.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The support is always on point, fast, reliable, and their employees go above and beyond to help when we need it. I have yet to call them on any product we use and not get the issue resolved in a fast and timely manner. Also, they are also very pleasant while on the phone and/or in teh email chain. Overall I just couldn't ask for better.
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    SolarWinds
    In all of the times that we called support, someone at SolarWinds had the answer for us in a timely manner. Through thwack and other internet searching, we have been able to resolve all of our issues that arose to our satisfaction. The support staff have always been knowledgeable of their products or had a fellow support staff member to rely on to get the needed answers.
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    Online Training
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The training is good but during the implementation, you can get situations not learned during the training. The trainer was very open to hearing the questions about use cases and always sharing his experience. I really recommend having official training to take advantage of all features that the NPM can bring.
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    Implementation Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Make sure your inventory is accurate. Stand up some virtual machines for testing prior to installation. Make sure your database and its credentials are setup. Think about things you want to monitor that may not be obvious - UPS units, Door hardware, PBX systems, Fabric Channel switches, firewalls, routers, switches. Try to setup SNMP on these devices and have an IP that you will assign to the new server. If you do that it will go well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Each of these solutions does what they aim to do. Based off of cost and need, ManageEngine fit better with our organization. We already use multiple ManageEngine products so bundling was a no brainer.
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    SolarWinds
    We selected SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor because of the capabilities of the product versus the price. The tools also work well with their other products and support is fairly good. We have never had a problem when we needed to make a call.
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    Scalability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    From the direction and information I have been given it is very flexible and scalelable
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    Return on Investment
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Lot of positive impacts
    • Low Budget
    • Great results
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    SolarWinds
    • SolarWinds allows us to proactively address hardware issues before they impact the business. We recently had a server that was experiencing issues sporadically and we were able to use the data from SolarWinds to track down and correct the issue before it tanked the server.
    • SolarWinds gives our IT department some piece of mind knowing that they'll be alerted of any issues real time.
    • We can use SolarWinds data to justify needed to replace or upgrade certain equipment that is key to our core business.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer Screenshots

    Screenshot of NetFlow Analyzer Dashboard overviewScreenshot of Drill-down to device and interface detailsScreenshot of Create logical groups for department-wise monitoringScreenshot of Track top conversations in your networkScreenshot of Identify security threatsScreenshot of Bandwidth trends forecasting and capacity planning

    SolarWinds NPM Screenshots

    Screenshot of Network monitoring software used to reduce network outages and detect, diagnose, and resolve multi-vendor network performance issues.Screenshot of See relationships for routers, switches, interfaces, volumes, and groups, updated automatically without user intervention to maintain the network, not network maps.Screenshot of Reduce visibility gaps into critical network switches, firewalls, and load balancers with Network Insight for Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASA, and F5 BIG-IP.Screenshot of Reduce the flood of unnecessary network alerts. Create alerts based on simple or complex nested trigger conditions, defined parent/child dependencies, and network topology.Screenshot of Identify dead zones and improve wireless coverage. With its network monitoring tool, users can access out-of-the-box wireless reports, including wireless availability and rogue access points.Screenshot of Configure alerts by calculating dynamic baseline threshold data with network performance monitoring software.