Grafana Cloud vs. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Comparison


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About Grafana Labs delivers the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the world’s most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms (3x) and furthest in Completeness of Vision (2025, 2026), Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations, from startups to the Fortune 500. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems. Powered by the LGTM stack—Grafana (visualization), Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs) & Tempo (traces)—it unifies telemetry in one platform for full-stack visibility across applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences. With the AI-powered Grafana Assistant and Adaptive Telemetry suite, teams detect and resolve issues faster, reduce wasteful telemetry spend, and gain real-time insights to ensure reliability. Native OTel support and 100s of integrations mean you can plug in existing tools & data sources.		About Network Performance Monitor (NPM) by SolarWinds delivers advanced network troubleshooting for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud services using critical path hop-by-hop analysis. Powerful and affordable, this modern network monitoring software enables IT organizations to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network issues and outages, thereby improving network performance. SolarWinds’ Network Performance Monitor offers a host of features such as Performance analysis dashboard, NetPath critical path visualization, Intelligent alerts, Multi-vendor network monitoring, Network Insight for Cisco ASA and F5 BIG-IP.
Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported		Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Engineering teams, SREs, developers, and platform architects who need scalable, AI-powered observability across modern applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native environments.		Audience SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) supports network engineers, administrators, and managers as well as IT administrators and generalists.
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported		API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing $0 Forever Free Tier: All Grafana Cloud services, up to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, traces & profiles; 14-day retention; 3 active users Pro: from $19/month + usage Enterprise: from $25K/year Free Version Supported Free Trial Supported		Pricing $2895.00/one-time Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Pros from Real Users Pros Grafana is a trusted tool for a reason, and as such I've used it every company I have worked for. The tool makes creating new dashboards a breeze. And with their new AI tool, you can update and create dashboards with confidence. When our network dashboard broke due to a plugin deprecating, the AI tool was able to recommend a new plugin, build the dashboard, and configure it based on SNMP logs it read from our central log store. It even recommended things to configure alerts on and added more metrics for us to track.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported		Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Grafana Labs Founded: 2014 United States grafana.com		Company Information SolarWinds Founded: 2000 United States www.solarwinds.com
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Categories AI Agent Observability Supported AI Observability Supported Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Supported Container Monitoring Supported Dashboard Supported Data Visualization Supported Database Monitoring Supported Incident Management Supported Incident Response Supported IT Alerting Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Supported Log Monitoring Supported Observability Supported Performance Testing Supported Reporting Supported Telemetry Supported		Categories Network Bandwidth Monitoring Supported Network Discovery Supported Network Mapping Supported Network Monitoring Supported Packet Analyzers Supported SNMP Monitoring Supported WiFi Analyzers Supported
Show More Features Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Supported Diagnostic Tools Supported Full Transaction Diagnostics Supported Performance Control Supported Resource Management Supported Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported Server Performance Supported Trace Individual Transactions Supported Dashboard Features Annotations Supported Data Source Integrations Supported Functions / Calculations Supported Interactive Supported KPIs Supported OLAP Supported Private Dashboards Supported Public Dashboards Supported Scorecards Supported Themes Supported Visual Analytics Supported Widgets Supported Data Visualization Features Analytics Supported Content Management Supported Dashboard Creation Supported Filtered Views Supported OLAP Supported Relational Display Supported Simulation Models Supported Visual Discovery Supported Database Monitoring Features Anomaly Detection Supported Autodiscovery Supported Capacity Planning Supported Dashboard Supported Dependency Tracking Not Supported Historical Trend Analysis Supported Multitenancy Supported Notifications / Alerts Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Permissions / Access Controls Supported Predictive Analytics Supported Prioritization Not Supported Query Analysis Supported Resource Optimization Supported Troubleshooting Supported IT Alerting Features Alert Noise Reduction Supported Alert Routing Supported Dynamic Notifications Supported Enriched Incident Context Supported Escalation Policies Supported Incident History Audit Supported Multi-User Alerting Supported Multiple Alert Types Supported On-Call Management Supported Rich HTML Email Notifications Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Supported Application Monitoring Supported Bandwidth Monitoring Supported Capacity Planning Supported Configuration Change Management Supported Data Movement Monitoring Supported Health Monitoring Supported Multi-Platform Support Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Point-in-Time Visibility Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Virtual Machine Monitoring Supported Incident Management Features Audit Trail Supported Corrective Actions (CAPA) Supported Disaster Recovery Supported Incident Reporting Supported IT Incident Management Supported OSHA Compliance Not Supported Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported Safety Management Not Supported Task Management Supported Ticket Management Supported Reporting Features Customizable Dashboard Supported Data Source Connectors Supported Drag & Drop Supported Drill Down Supported Email Reports Supported Financial Reports Not Supported Forecasting Supported Marketing Reports Not Supported OLAP Supported Report Export Supported Sales Reports Not Supported Scheduled / Automated Reports Supported		Show More Features Network Mapping Features Color Codes / Icons Supported Compliance Management Not Supported Device Auto Discovery Supported Hierarchical Mapping Supported Location-Based Mapping Supported Map Exporting Supported On-Demand Mapping Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Self-Updating Maps Not Supported Web Traffic Reporting Not Supported
Integrations 100x Supported Cherwell Software Not Supported Cloud Ops Group Supported Desktop.com Supported Dokku Supported Golioth Supported Graphite Supported I&B monitoring Supported Icinga Supported Mimasa AI Supported OnlineOrNot Supported Oxla Supported Pangolin Supported RAD Security Supported Stackhero Supported Stackreaction Supported Toplyne Supported Truto Supported Wyebot Supported xMatters Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 201 Integrations		Integrations 100x Not Supported Cherwell Software Supported Cloud Ops Group Not Supported Desktop.com Not Supported Dokku Not Supported Golioth Not Supported Graphite Not Supported I&B monitoring Not Supported Icinga Not Supported Mimasa AI Not Supported OnlineOrNot Not Supported Oxla Not Supported Pangolin Not Supported RAD Security Not Supported Stackhero Not Supported Stackreaction Not Supported Toplyne Not Supported Truto Not Supported Wyebot Not Supported xMatters Supported Show More Integrations View All 16 Integrations
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