While SolarWinds excels at SNMP monitoring, its NetFlow Traffic Analyzer fails to deliver beyond basic functionality. Only Flowmon, with its dedicated NetFlow-first architecture, will provide you with the necessary network traffic visibility you need for effective troubleshooting, application performance monitoring, and anomaly detection.
Up to 16x faster mean-time-to resolution of performance issues. Leverage the analytical view for decisive L2-L7insights.
On-premise, edge, and cloud under one visibility umbrella. Advanced performance monitoring and diagnostics across all your environments and applications.
From zero to actionable data on the dashboard in 30 minutes. Use presets and predefined dashboards for automatic configuration or create your own to shape the tool to your specific needs.
Network monitoring is not infrastructure monitoring. Technologies built around SNMP do an excellent job telling you that some network element is in trouble, but to actually discover why the issue exists, you need actionable data and deep network traffic visibility.
But that doesn't mean it has to be one or the other. It's a good idea to build the overall picture of your infrastructure's health and availability with SNMP monitoring and switch to dedicated network traffic monitoring whenever you need solid insights on the root cause of issues. Plus, with the visibility Kemp Flowmon provides, you will be able to discover problems that SNMP solutions ignore completely.
Compare Flowmon to Solarwinds | Flowmon | Solarwinds |
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Bandwidth utilization monitoringTraffic structure, usage patterns, top talker statistics | ||
Malicious traffic detectionPort scanning, dictionary attacks, beaconing, C&C communication, data exfiltration | ||
Agentless user experience monitoringKey metrics (RTT, SRT, Jitter, RTR), drilldown user transactions | ||
Network troubleshooting and forensicsMonitoring DNS, Samba, HTTP, DHCP, etc., including deep drilldown and advanced filtering | ||
Automated packet analysisOn-demand and on-event packet recording with automated error analysis and remedial suggestions | ||
Infrastructure health monitoringDisk, memory, IOPS, temperature, availability | ||
Network configuration managementDevice discovery, configuration change tracking |
Flowmon houses the most powerful NetFlow/IPFIX data exporter available.
Clear insights for user experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and anomaly detection.
Process data in all standard formats, e.g. NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, NetStream, and more.
Process and normalize data for equal visibility across the public cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments.
Network data analysis for the big picture, proxy for data forwarding, or network data storage.
Small businesses or global distributed architectures. The scalability is limitless and always cost-effective.
The highest performance in flows/s on the market. Built for fast data processing, it has weeks of historical data storage.
“The combination of great value for money, our experience with the vendors’ support and their feature-set sealed our decision. Flowmon provides the flexibility we need to grow with our clients’ future business needs.”
Joost Westerbeek
IT Network Engineer
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