Noction Flow Analyzer vs. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Noction Flow Analyzer
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Noction Flow Analyzer (NFA) is a flow-based monitoring and reporting software that collects, stores, and presents both real-time and historic traffic data across an entire network. It helps to analyze and understand a network’s traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, hosts and applications traffic anomalies, better capacity planning, and a lot more. NFA allows for detailed BGP peering analysis, provides insights into potential security issues, and allows engineers to minimize network…
$299
per month
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more.
$5
per month per node
Pricing
Noction Flow AnalyzerSolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Editions & Modules
Noction Flow Analyzer
$299.00
per month
Essentials
$5
per month per node
Advanced
$9
per month per node
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Noction Flow AnalyzerSolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNFA licensing is simple, transparent, and upfront. There is no limit on the number of devices, interfaces, or sites that can be added to the system. Free updates to new releases and premium 24/7 support are available to all NFA users. BGP Data is delivered as an optional add-on to Noction Flow Analyzer at $199/month.Pricing is set per node, per month, and billing is annual. The prices listed are base prices that could increase depending on your environment. Please speak to a representative to get a quote.
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User Ratings
Noction Flow AnalyzerSolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
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9.0
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Usability
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Noction Flow AnalyzerSolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
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For mid-market and larger, HCO provides a highly available single pane of glass. The user and group management provides a granular ability to deploy to the various areas of the support and engineering teams. Integration to ITSM platforms ensures that information from the platform flows in real time to the right people.
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Pros
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  • unlimited APEs included
  • all modules under one platform
  • overall cost savings when compared to buying multiple APEs and modules, NetFlow NCM, Ipam, etc.
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Cons
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  • Please fix the time zones issue. Events are in UTC, Charts in the user's Local Time, Alerts come in through with Main Server timestamp - it's all over the place & it's been like that for so long. We are a large corp, the teams span time zones and trying to work with teams across the globe is made so difficult by this.
  • The inability to ingest the tags from AWS Cloud watch and the countless posts / feature requests on thwack complaining about this that just get ignored. It's such a basic feature of Cloud & I don't want to have to own a different product to use such an fundamental part of cloud.
  • Maintenance Windows - why can we not set a reoccurring window from the web ui in 2022?
  • SAM - Manage applications, why is there no search bar to filter through applications. When you scale out to enterprise size this is so annoying trying to guess which page to land on to find the application / device I'm looking for.
  • http://hostname/Orion/APM/Admin/Applications/Default.aspx
  • Half baked features being released - Log Analyzer shipped with no resources for the node details page. The Free version from 2016 had more available in it.
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Usability
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- decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge
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Alternatives Considered
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Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades.
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Return on Investment
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  • Helps us maintain application availability
  • Helps us shorten unplanned downtime
  • Provides these benefits at a fair price
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ScreenShots

Noction Flow Analyzer Screenshots

Screenshot of Complete, up to the minute network traffic visibility on bandwidth usage, conversations, subnets, traffic usage by application, traffic distribution by locations, top prefixes, top ASNs, and more.Screenshot of Comprehensive Alerting system with a multitude of utilization, duration, and frequency threshold-based alerts delivered via individual notification channels such as email or a specific Slack channel.Screenshot of Detailed BGP analysis capability, to find peering candidates and make informed interconnection decisions, diagnose policy misconfigurations, route flapping, or other peering related issues.

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Screenshots

Screenshot of ITOM Executive DashboardScreenshot of Observability MapsScreenshot of Performance Analysis DashboardScreenshot of Application Alerting DashboardScreenshot of Network Path Analysis