NPM allows you to trace critical network paths hop by hop, homing in on where a blockage lies. Other monitoring tools exist, but NPM stands apart with its solid support for enterprise hybrid multi-cloud environments, load balancers, Azure® ExpressRoute®, VPNs, Cisco ACI®, and other protocols and connection mechanisms as well as its ability to differentiate between issues with applications and devices. NPM is a sophisticated product designed for the modern network. Instead, you can resolve and eliminate problems before they become an issue. No more learning something’s wrong when the managing director calls and asks why they can’t send emails. For beleaguered IT managers and network administrators, this tool can flip your focus, time, and energy from reactive firefighting and hunting issues to focusing on business problems. iTWire has been testing it out in a commercial environment, and it’s already proven immensely useful, providing end-to-end visibility of servers and services across the WAN, VPN, public cloud services, and more. This is where SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) comes in. Can you fix it so it doesn’t happen again?” report, as if it’s not difficult enough to figure out why the network is slow now, let alone in the past. Or the perennial “The network was slow last week. “Is the server down?” they ask as if you have only one server. And if you have a network, you know the many ethereal and nebulous complaints users will bring. Unless your home or business never goes online, doesn’t share files, doesn’t use email, doesn’t stream media, or doesn’t even have computing devices, you have a network.