SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Spec sheet

Purpose

NPM monitors multi-vendor networks so teams can detect and troubleshoot performance issues affecting network availability and user experience.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Intended users

The product is presented for IT teams monitoring complex, hybrid, and multi-vendor networks.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Deployment

NPM is a self-hosted SolarWinds Platform product that can be deployed on premises or in cloud environments, including through Azure and AWS marketplaces.Read 9 Oct 2026 · documentation.solarwinds.com

Trial

SolarWinds offers a fully functional 30-day free trial, with no credit card required.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Integrations

The datasheet identifies Cisco ACI and Azure vNet gateway support, and names F5 BIG-IP, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto Networks firewalls, and Cisco Nexus among supported advanced devices.Read 9 Oct 2026 · p1.aprimocdn.net

Support

SolarWinds lists technical support, deployment services, premium support, documentation, training, and its THWACK user community as customer resources.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Founded

1999Read 28 Sep 2026 · solarwinds.com

Alerts and capacity

NPM provides prebuilt and customizable alerts, dependency-aware alerting, reports, and capacity forecasting based on historical trends.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Device monitoring

It discovers and monitors routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers, and other network devices, tracking measures such as response time, packet loss, bandwidth use, and hardware health.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Metric correlation

PerfStack lets users compare network, system, and application metrics on a shared timeline when integrated with other SolarWinds Orion modules.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Path analysis

NetPath visualizes network paths hop by hop across on-premises and cloud infrastructure to help locate latency and packet loss.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Scale

The product datasheet says NPM can scale to up to one million elements per instance with appropriate licenses.Read 9 Oct 2026 · p1.aprimocdn.net

Security approach

SolarWinds describes Secure by Design as its security and cyber-resiliency approach, including a resilient build environment, transparency, security-team reviews, and an assume-breach mindset.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Wireless monitoring

NPM tracks wireless controllers, access points, and clients and provides Wi-Fi heat maps for Cisco wireless access points.Read 9 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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