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    Amanda H.

Solar winds review

  • April 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Ability to see current issues in real time.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are limited ways to search SQL which is not complete.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its a great tool used for analyzing data and performance.


    Kevin S.

New Software

  • March 22, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Customer Service and the responsiveness of their workers
What do you dislike about the product?
The work going forward but that is with all projects
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balancing


    Consumer Services

Multiple Scenarios

  • March 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
There is almost no end to the way Solarwinds is able to be configured.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many configurations take a lot to get setup correctly and one little mistake can mess up the entire configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring critical servers and applications so that we have little to no down time.


    Information Technology and Services

Decent experience with Solarwinds

  • March 19, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to handle all kinds of alerts in a matter of two clicks or less.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the support team's quality. Often the help comes copy-pasted from their KB articles, so there isn't much personalized help. The service desk ticketing site that it connects to is also a bit slow in syncing up with the dashboard so tickets don't close efficiently even when the alert has gone away.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Patch Management. Remote Access. Managed Antivirus. Disk space checks. Performance Monitoring. All are beneficial. Even when a server is down, we get the alert.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Beware of support. Beware of lag between sync of dashboard and service desk. Glitch between background manager and backup check on dashboard.


    Deirra J.

Solarwinds NPM

  • March 07, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
NPM offers high visibility into your network with a user friendly interface. The product offers a high level of customizability allowing you to honing your monitoring and alerting needs. Getting the product up and running is pretty straightforward. The learning curve comes in when honing your monitoring. Support is responsive and reliable. The Thwack community also offers helps for deployment and management questions. The interface offers loads of charts and graphs allowing you to show how your network and key interfaces are performing.
What do you dislike about the product?
No particular dislikes with the product, however it does take time to deploy as you pull in your network devices. Since licensing is base on the number of elements being monitored (devices and interfaces), you need to be knowledge about what you're monitoring. Charts and graphs can take a little time to tweak to get the data that's relevant to you. Creating custom reports also isn't intuitive however the Solarwinds support is great at assisting you when needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solarwinds offered a centralized location for all team members to analyze performance of the network and related devices, Alerts allowed us to respond to outages quickly and reduce downtime for users. The product delves deep into the network allowing you to spot minor issues before they become user impacting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do through research on what you need to monitor as the licensing structure is based on how many devices and interfaces your are monitoring. Signup and get active on the Thwack community as this is a gave resource for getting the product setup.


    Construction

Good prod (

  • March 07, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like how it is a seamless product that monitors all or our networking devices.
What do you dislike about the product?
The website tends to slow to a crawl and becomes unusable until we repair the site
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Constant monitoring of our equipment
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just work out the performance issues and I’d be happy


    Benjamin M.

Very Intuitive Configuration Management

  • February 22, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
the software is intuitive and easy to use. The alerting system both for policy alerts and real time configuration management is great! It is so easy to push out bulk configuration updates to multiple network devices by group for when large numbers of change need to be made. There is also a system for built in Chang approval for configuration jobs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Configuration policy application is difficult to apply correctly, but works well once it is done right.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configuration backups, configuration policy compliance, bulk network device changes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cisco Prime is more in one with Cisco specific devices, but if you want one tool for all your monitoring needs, NCM is a great option.


    Alexander C.

Hard to use product made easy.

  • February 02, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The solar winds community (THWACK) is by far one of the best NPM community’s offering every support solution paid support ever could. from custom monitors, reports and even support for issues outside of SW. Both the free and paid SW support is also great. There is nothing you can’t monitor with SW, although built in support may not naively exist, the platform is very open ended to develop your own monitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very complex monitors sometimes take hours to set up with countless time spent on testing, checking metrics, setting alerts and then reviewing the community when all else fails. it really can be a full time job just managing the back end DB and all of the monitors for a small to medium NOC. quite resource intensive on the network, can add to latency in ping time when you have 1000s of nodes monitored remotely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex network monitoring both on site, through multiple data centers, all the way through the network to customer sites, including monitoring video bandwidth, network latency, even when employees dock their computers in the morning. it is also great for monitoring SW versions and patch history, Service tags or SN's for inventory purposes and Costing for network usage across multiple sites.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check the Fourms and community first, when calling free or paid support often the first questions out of their mounts is if you checked the knowledge base first, and often times their only support is to send the the applicable community or KB article.


    Brandon T.

Theres gotta be something better

  • January 31, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Product is very user friendly and visually appealing
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow, ineffective for real time troubleshooting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cpu utilization, connectivity
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There has to be something better


    Hospital & Health Care

The standard for network monitoring solutions

  • January 30, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Many ways to customize dashboards, alerts, and reports. Easy to limit information based on roles.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues can be hard to diagnose and fix.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly identifying the source of performance issues. Reporting of policy violations across hundreds of network devices. Repository for config backups.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider final scale of deployment when setting up the different required servers. Do not skimp on database performance.