TrustRadius Insights for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Intuitive User Interface: Users have consistently praised the intuitive and easy-to-operate user interface of the services. Many reviewers have stated that they found it simple to navigate through the system, making tasks easy to perform.
High Level of Customization: The Network Bandwidth Analyzer's level of customization has been highly valued by users. Numerous reviewers have expressed their appreciation for being able to create customized views, reports, and alerts tailored to their specific needs. This feature allows users to personalize the tool according to their requirements.
Detailed Bandwidth Information: The NetFlow Traffic Analyzer component has received praise for providing detailed information on bandwidth usage and capacity planning. Several users have described this feature as invaluable for forensic tasks. They appreciate having access to in-depth insights into network traffic, which helps them effectively manage and troubleshoot issues.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Reviews
5 Reviews
Engineering
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SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is being used along with NPM and NCM. As NPM covers fault monitoring and NCM provides Network Devices Configuration details and compliance checks done, the only left item was to audit and analyse who is eating the bandwidth and how - that's where NTA fits in. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is being used to analyse Network traffic and who is consuming the bandwidth for better planning and [to] ensure security.
Cons
Automatic Packet Analysis
Historical Data for Bandwidth Usage
Segregating Bandwidth Consumtion in terms of Application, Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are using SolarWinds NPM, then I would definitely recommend to use NTA module along with, as without NTA Network team will miss one important piece of Bandwidth utilization. Without NTA you cannot plan Bandwidth usage in a better way. NTA is also important for security regulation, as it tells you what traffic is being generated by the endpoints, and whether its a security violation or not such as DdoS attacks.
We have been using SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for quite some time at our organization for monitoring bandwidth and traffic patterns. We use it organization-wide to monitor users or applications with high bandwidth utilization. These helps us to maximize the up-time of our network and applications leading to smooth and fast access to the internet and data center applications.
Our overall experience with this tool is very positive and has helped us a lot in keeping our infrastructure lag free.
Pros
Monitoring Network Bandwidth is the best feature we see in this tool as its detailed insights help us in allocating bandwidth to users correctly.
It can be deployed very easily, efficiently and quickly. We deployed it in a few hours at our organization.
It is good at finding Hosts or IP addresses that communicate more or frequently in the network.
Cons
The dashboard is a little complex for a layman to understand. I remember when I was new to this product I had a difficult time in understanding the traffic patterns.
Technical Support Assistance is quite complex and difficult to obtain and it has a lot of room for improvement.
Training material is not easy to find. More training videos would be appreciated.
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is well suited in use cases like:
Bandwidth Monitoring for Internet, MPLS & Point to Point Links.
Realtime performance analysis for networking equipment like switches, routers, firewalls, virtual machines, etc where we can monitor performance of components like CPU, RAM, Storage, etc.
Identifying varied traffic patterns and top talkers in an environment with ease and good accuracy.
SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is one of the most powerful tools in the organization. It is used by several departments that belong to IT specifically Communications, Systems and Services Monitoring, and Data Center. Our organization uses Netflow to identify traffic volumes that may be affecting production. Also through Netflow we realize in which links we need to increase bandwidths. Among the difficulties we have experienced is that not all devices in our infrastructure support this solution and this has limited us to expand our traffic analysis.
Pros
It allows you to have visibility of the volume of traffic that is going through your infrastructure.
The possibility of remedying events that may be affecting the infrastructure.
Control of the different media analyzing the type of traffic that passes through the critical points.
Cons
We have difficulties in areas such as other platforms that find it difficult to interpret the results.
There are areas such as Data Center where it is not considered as a primary tool in their work.
The results that this tool can provide are not considered in the budgets of critical areas.
Likelihood to Recommend
I consider areas such as telecommunications are the most benefited with this tool because of the quick results it can obtain. Development areas can benefit but on a smaller scale and in isolated cases. I do not recommend it for administrative areas, it would not provide any information that provides specific solutions for its purposes.
This is the best network analyzing software available on the market for the price! The level of analyzing and user-friendly GUI are the best parts of this software.
Pros
This software helps us analyze bandwidth spikes in detail which helps us capacity plan for site moves or expansions.
This software helps us monitor user activity.
This software helps us monitor application traffic to a granular level by setting up pie charts and bar charts.
We use this software to alert the incident management team of circuit cuts or node unavailability thereby engaging the NOC team asap.
Cons
NTA could use a good PDF download feature. Right now, we cannot download pie charts in PDF format.
Likelihood to Recommend
We use this software to alert the incident management team of circuit cuts or node unavailability thereby engaging the NOC team asap. This is the best software to alert teams of network abnormalities. It is less appropriate for documentation since we cannot download the incidents or chart in a PDF format and create incident logs.
With the size of our business growing rapidly, the need for in-depth traffic analysis (where required) has grown as well. We are still in the early stages of implementation but NTA looks to be a good asset when it comes to the investigation of any specific traffic in our network.
Pros
Autodiscovery of endpoints makes adding sources a breeze.
Integrates well with existing Solarwinds products.
Good looking graphs and reporting that are easy to read and access.
Cons
Cost is extremely high when trying to integrate with an unlimited license.
A few bugs with autodiscovery can be a nuisance.
Likelihood to Recommend
We are still in the early stages, but the goal is for NTA to be a tool in identifying suspicious traffic.
