# Progress Flowmon Platform Reviews **Vendor:** Progress Software **Category:** [Network Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-monitoring) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About Progress Flowmon Platform Flowmon is a professional NPMD tool for effective network troubleshooting, performance monitoring, capacity planning, encrypted traffic analysis and cloud monitoring. Instead of just the red/green infrastructure status, it helps NetOps teams to understand user experience (UX) while keeping the amount of data noise and analytical work to a minimum. The Flowmon solution is a part of the Progress product portfolio. ## Progress Flowmon Platform Reviews ### 1. Best Network Marketing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhavesh N. | Senior Operations Executive, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** The platform offers significant support for security analysis, furnishing insights to address potential security risks. It boasts customizable features tailored to specific needs and straightforward implementation. Additionally, its user-friendly dashboards enhance usability. It offers real-time analysis to promptly detect any shifts in network performance or behavioral patterns. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** I have no specific grievances regarding the platform. The tool has not only met but also exceeded its intended objectives. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flowmon has proven invaluable in our efforts to identify potential security threats by continuously monitoring the real-time behavior of our network. Additionally, it has contributed to enhancing our network performance. The automatic report generation feature has significantly aided us in making more informed and effective decisions. ### 2. Best for real time network traffic monitoring and security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Network traffic monitoring helps organisations a great visibility into network performance, anamoly detection, network security,helps identifying potential threats. Flowmon undeniably is a great platform that offers all the above features. Flowmon processes telemetry data like ip flows and raw packets from various network devices which is stored and can be later used to analyse the network traffic and create data visualisation dashboards. With organisations moving all their infrastructure to cloud,best part is that it supports monitoring cloud and hybrid environments. It is easy to use and integrate in an environment, they provide great customer support. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Nothig as such so far as its a great tool for network monitoring **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flowman collects and stores network traffic which inturn can be used to improve network performance and increase data granularity. It helps resolving network issues including incidents such as servers with outdated certificates, a faulty server hogging the bandwidth with incorrect configuration etc.. With the collected data, we can create customised dashboards that provide great visibility into network level data which helps with retrospective analysis. Flowmon collector is suitable for both on premises and cloud environments, it provides insights of both the environments in one UI which eliminates managing multiple tools for monitoring. ### 3. Flowmon tool overview and review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sandopu p. | Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** The best Network monitoring and security tool, that I have seen. In terms of scalability. The precise metrics that we get from this tool are promising and this is the cost-effective. We all need less cost and more efficiency is int it :) . **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** There are a few cons about this tool, where only experienced user can access and understand the tool in effective way. If you are a start-up then cost price is a demerit. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly it will focus on Network monitoring, and security compliance, and audit purposes. deep data granularity and the best feature is it will detect the root cause precisely. ### 4. Flowmon goes with the Flow (of internet traffic)! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyle M. | IT Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Flowmon seems to be an all-in-one for traffic security, visibility, customization and management of users. Is easy to use if users has background in security management applications. Support was very easy to communicate with. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** If users are familar with network/trafffic security, protocols and jargon - it can be a challenging experience. Can be expensive. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have various data issues. At the time we had multiple solutions for some users, no solutions for others and some hidden resources we discovered! Flowmon was able to help us get our systems in line and managed. ### 5. Review for flowmon when integrated into my stack for monitoring & troubleshooting network issues **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh S. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Ease of use, simple implementations, easy to integrate, can be scaled as well. Moreover its gives good control to customize as per our needs. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** I just didnt like the amount of resource it utilizes. Rest I found everything good up to the level I used. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives me good control over network monitoring. Trackig issue made quite easy due to the dashboards. No more boring log analysis. ### 6. Flowmon's AI Driven Network security and Transparent gathering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash J. | Associate Consultant , Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Full network visibility, AI-Driven security & performance metrics for network as well as Load balance scheduler. It's ease to use, complete customer support, easy to integrate & implement and frequent usable. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** I don't see any dislikes about Flowmon Platform. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping in implementing and integrating network traffic and making it secured ### 7. very good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amr Ahmed M. | Data Management Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** very secure , easy to use and has good customer support,easy to implement and easy to integrate,frequency to use **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** many polices, frequency to use same buttons **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** montioring the traffic and give us good analysis to be more sure and greatfull ### 8. If you’re new to networking world then this will be your go to place **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** The in-depth analysis and the way it find the root cause of the network issue is phenomena, doesnt matter if you're new or experienced in networking world the amount of time this platform save is huge **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** I find this a bit complex to use otherwise i loved the platform and worth trying **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being an SRE this platform plays very vital role in my team and reduce whole lot of time by not troubleshooting network and application connectivity issue ### 9. Flowmon Network Monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adesh B. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Flowmon ingest data from various sources and devices. also with the help of Flowmon we can analyse issue. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Flowmon platform having multiple pocilies. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help flowmon we can analyse multiple site connectivity. ### 10. Very Good Framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak A. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Best ETL framework for starting the scalable data transformation applications. Very helpful. **What do you dislike about Progress Flowmon Platform?** Nothing to dislike, everything is helpful. **What problems is Progress Flowmon Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a open source tool, which helps us to create jobs for our business, very helpful. ## Progress Flowmon Platform Discussions - [What is Flowmon Platform used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-flowmon-platform-used-for) - [View Progress Flowmon Platform pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/flowmon-platform/reviews/flowmon-platform-review-9538790?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+23%3A16%3A57+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e6eb5256-1818-4b3d-af1a-40a55cc7c7e0&secure%5Btoken%5D=f23f7beff99685e2232add79aef5336f8ed0f9b30aa970255f893c3d3d51c4ba&format=llm_user) ## Progress Flowmon Platform Features **Management** - IT Alerting - Network Capacity - Logging - API / Integrations **Functionality** - Performance Monitoring - Alerting - Improvement Suggestions - Multi-Network Capability **Automation** - Metadata Management - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Response Automation - Continuous Analysis **Analysis** - Incident Reporting - Network Visibility - Metadata Enrichment - Metadata Management **Monitoring** - Performance Baselines - Performance Analysis - Performance Monitoring - Multi-System Monitoring **Monitoring - Network Monitoring** - 360-Degree Network Visibility - Automated Network Discovery - Real-Time Monitoring **Protection** - Infrastructure Protection **Management** - Performance Baseline - Data Visualization - Path Analysis **Functionality** - Multi-Network Capability - Anomaly Detection - Network Visibility - Scalability **Response** - Incident Alerts - Response Orchestration - Response Automation **Response** - Dashboards and Visualization - Incident Alerting - Root Cause Analysis (RCA) **Analytics - Network Monitoring** - Predictive Performance Analytics - Packet & Flow Analysis **Resolution** - Attack Mitigation - Network Monitoring - Security Monitoring - Anomoly Detection - Resolution Automation **Incident Management** - Incident Logs - Incident Alerts - Incident Reporting **Detection** - Multi-Network Monitoring - Asset Discovery - Anomaly Detection **Security - Network Monitoring** - Encrypted Data Transmission - Zero Trust and Identity Management - Integrated Network Security **Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Network Performance - Network Monitoring** - Dynamic Network Optimization - Automated Tasks Routing **Services - Network Detection and Response (NDR)** - Managed Services **AI Automation - Network Monitoring** - Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection - Self-Healing Networks - Predictive Network Maintenance **Agentic AI - Network Monitoring** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Performance** - Real User Monitoring (RUM) - Second by Second Metrics **Functionality** - Synthetic Monitoring - Dynamic Transaction Mapping - Load Balancing - Cloud Observability ## Top Progress Flowmon Platform Alternatives - [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,231 reviews) - [Splunk AppDynamics](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-appdynamics/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (335 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (694 reviews)