SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is an enterprise-scale network monitoring and fault management solution engineered to continuously track the health, performance, and availability of routers, switches, firewalls, physical servers, and virtual infrastructure. Operating as a flagship product of the SolarWinds portfolio, it utilizes automated discovery and proactive threshold monitoring to enable network engineers to detect and resolve network performance issues rapidly.

The software runs on Windows Server systems, monitoring network infrastructure using SNMP, WMI, ICMP, and NetPath protocols across hybrid and multi-vendor network topologies. It integrates seamlessly with other SolarWinds Orion platform modules, ServiceNow, and IT alerting systems to automate incident creation and notification workflows. Frequent implementation scenarios include tracking network interface bandwidth utilization, monitoring hardware health (fans, power supplies, temperature), visualizing hop-by-hop network paths using NetPath, diagnosing packet loss and latency spikes, and mapping dynamic network topology diagrams.

With customizable visual dashboards, automated threshold-based alarms, and deep packet inspection capabilities, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides comprehensive visibility into modern network infrastructure health. Network teams leverage the PerfStack cross-stack data correlation dashboard to overlay network metrics with server and application performance, isolating the root cause of slow services in seconds. The platform minimizes network downtime, optimizes network capacity planning, and simplifies IT operations management across enterprise environments.