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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs SolarWinds Network Device Monitor comparison

IBM and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. IBM is ranked #40 with an average rating of 7.5, while SolarWinds is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.9. IBM holds a 1.0% mindshare in NMS, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management are competing products in network monitoring and performance management. IBM SevOne NPM has an edge due to its comprehensive feature set.

Features: SolarWinds Network Device Monitor offers simple device monitoring capabilities, real-time alerts, and ease of use for basic network oversight. IBM SevOne NPM provides advanced performance analytics, predictive insights, and scalability for larger networks.

Room for Improvement: SolarWinds could benefit from enhancements in detailed performance analytics, predictive network insights, and scalability for larger infrastructures. IBM SevOne NPM might improve its user interface simplicity, deployment time, and offer more cost-effective options for smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolarWinds provides a straightforward deployment process and effective customer support, suitable for less complex environments. IBM SevOne NPM requires a more detailed setup but offers robust customer support that efficiently supports complex infrastructures with extensive onboarding resources.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is a cost-effective solution with a reasonable setup cost, appealing to budget-conscious organizations. IBM SevOne NPM, with a higher initial setup cost, offers a higher ROI due to its comprehensive capabilities and network management efficiency.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SevOne Network Performa...
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
40th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (19th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (40th), Log Management (44th), Cloud Monitoring Software (29th)
SolarWinds Network Device M...
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
27th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is 1.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor0.9%
IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM)1.0%
Other98.1%
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1543041 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1543041
Network monitoring engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Provides consistent infrastructure monitoring with excellent usability and support
The primary use case of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is network monitoring. It helps to maintain the infrastructure's availability and ensure that alerts are generated when needed The most valuable features of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) are its stability,…
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Sorin Gogean
IT Infrastructure Senior Network Technician at Autoliv
Offers some features but needs better customization and analysis tools
There are solutions that can perform better, but due to pricing for our corporate implementation, we had to stay with this solution. It accomplishes the necessary tasks, but there is room for improvement. The features are not as customizable as we would prefer, but they are workable. If configured properly, you can perform a drill-down analysis. However, I have not used this feature much for our infrastructure on the network side.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature as of late has been the API integration with ServiceNow."
"With this tool it is interesting to show the info to the client and explain where the traffic is."
"We have benefited mainly from the use of the dashboard interface. It makes the network visually interesting for other people who are not in the network. A lot of people are not network techies who understand streams in the network. Based on location, we have streams coming in and out. They can see visually when there is some problem. They don't need to understand all the network technology behind it to be able to understand if everything is working well or if there is a problem."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the scale-up and scale-down. The scale-up is an operation where the CPU boosts-up and then the memory will boost-up. That works awesomely."
"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."
"It also gives us the closest thing to real-time insight into network performance that we have, with just a 10-second delay. It's very important for us to know the health of the infrastructure very quickly."
"The SMP and the xStats, which is for flat file integration, are both useful for integrating the various metrics that the device provides to monitor the performance of those systems."
"It's given us the ability to create various real-time network performance reports and distribute them to any colleague who can access these reports immediately."
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"I rate the product's initial setup process a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult phase and ten is an easy process."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor are the reports. We are configuring the reports, and the first reports are only about the devices. We are configuring the thresholds in order to monitor all the devices."
"In terms of general network monitoring features, I find SolarWinds Network Device Monitor very flexible and comfortable to use. The software itself is extremely useful when it comes to monitoring how our data moves between different networks and environments."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is it can alert you when a device is not working."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is monitoring."
"Overall, I rate SolarWinds Network Device Monitor ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is it shows you the utilization of devices to allow you to take proactive action before something goes down or reaches the saturation point. You can take proactive action to fix the problem before it occurs."
"There are vital features of auto-plugin core ports"
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Cons

"We previously have had discussions on some reporting enhancements. So, we raised a feature request, which was delivered from SevOne."
"The GUI: both the dashboard/user view and the admin tool."
"There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities."
"NMS has several areas for improvement. It should be more user-friendly inside of NMS for some of the functionality in there. It's been getting better the last version or two, but the there have been bugs in there whenever I've gone to new versions."
"The user management features need to be improved. It would be nice if we had more granular control, or layers of control, out of the box."
"One area that requires a little bit of improvement is the topology of visualization and being able to map out connections, end-to-end. It's able to do that, but it's not as impressive as we would like it to be. We would like to understand the different interface types and the connection points better, through the visualization. Heatmaps also need further development."
"I'm not really sure if this was the software's fault or a server issue, but a couple of years back the disks were failing on our SevOne physical server every month and the server would go down. The secondary server took over from the primary until the disk issue was resolved. That was annoying."
"SevOne should work with the graphs legend functionality."
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"Although I haven't explored all of the features available, I wouldn't mind if the software were made to be a bit more customizable."
"The security needs improvement, which is why we are moving away from Solar Winds. We have security concerns."
"It would be beneficial if SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could provide a feature to monitor CRC errors specifically on individual interfaces rather than the entire device. This would help in detecting intermittent issues and packet drops on main links more accurately, especially when there are CRC errors. It's important for us to be aware of these issues to avoid any voice quality problems or interruptions on our MTS links."
"The initial setup of the SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could be easier. It took us approximately one month to complete the implementation."
"If everything were in the package so that everything was ready to go out of the box, that would be ideal."
"The solution lacks in performance monitoring."
"When an organization's network grows, the complexity of the dashboard becomes an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The reporting feature needs improvement because we are unable to configure reports that were included during initial implementation."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Prices per license are not huge, but they exist."
"For the value that you get from SevOne, it's worth the price. There are a lot of cheaper alternatives on the market, and even free options. But they require more staff, more resources, and engineers with more advanced knowledge of monitoring. That's what makes SevOne worth the price."
"Many tools price things based on the number of KPIs that you're collecting around a device. In many cases, there could be hundreds of metrics that you need to collect. SevOne provides device-level pricing. That gives us the flexibility to turn on, and expand on, the metrics that we're collecting around those devices, without taking a financial hit."
"There are cheaper solutions available."
"Have a bank of licenses, because it is about the number of objects (RAM, ports, CPU, etc.)."
"The tool is not expensive. We were able to negotiate with SevOne on pricing."
"There are different options available for licensing, with the per-device option being more expensive but more flexible."
"The pricing has been fair."
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"Thankfully, it doesn't take a lot of manpower to install and deploy."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is not an expensive solution."
"I rate the product's price as three to three and a half or on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price, and ten means high price."
"Well, we had a perpetual license and the renewal was $20 to $25,000."
"The product is expensive."
"I find the cost of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor reasonable for our company. Though, I'm not aware of the exact licensing cost."
"The enterprise license is good for the SolarWinds Network Device Monitor. However, it is expensive, they should reduce their price."
"When compared with other solutions SolarWinds is more expensive."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Performing Arts
5%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise45
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Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SevOne Network Data Platform?
There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities. It would be beneficial to have out-of-the-box integration with third-party vendors and improv...
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What is your primary use case for SevOne Network Data Platform?
The primary use case of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) ( /products/ibm-sevone-network-performance-management-npm-reviews ) is network monitoring. It helps to maintain the infrastru...
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What advice do you have for others considering SevOne Network Data Platform?
To compete with custom-built tools, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) should accommodate the desired features and be timely in the delivery of feature updates. I would rate the overal...
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What do you like most about SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
I rate the product's initial setup process a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult phase and ten is an easy process.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
I am not a positive person regarding SolarWinds Network Device Monitor.
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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
There are solutions that can perform better, but due to pricing for our corporate implementation, we had to stay with this solution. It accomplishes the necessary tasks, but there is room for impro...
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Also Known As

SevOne
Network Device Monitor
 

Overview

The IBM® SevOne Network Performance Management (IBM SevOne NPM) solution helps you spot, address, and prevent network performance issues early with machine learning-powered analytics from a single source. Boost network performance and improve your user application experience by proactively monitoring your multivendor end-to-end network across enterprise, communication, and managed service provider networks.

Transform raw network performance data into intelligent and actionable insights. The IBM SevOne NPM solution goes beyond detection, combining industry-leading expertise and advanced technology to help your IT team plan and optimize your network and act on what matters: improving network performance to provide an exceptional customer experience.

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Network Device Monitor is a free tool that makes it easy to monitor the real-time performance and health of a single device on your network with a desktop dashboard that alerts you when your device is in trouble.
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