The old saying “you get what you pay for” holds true in just about every way possible – except with SolarWinds' free network monitoring tools.

We’ve been providing the networking community with free network management and free network monitoring tools since the company was founded nearly a decade ago. The word has spread over the years and now professionals worldwide use our free network monitoring tools and other network management and network discovery solutions to keep their networks up and running.

Choose from the list below to find out why network engineers use our free network monitoring tools for everyday tasks. In fact, more than a million of you now rely on these free tools to perform network monitoring and network management tasks on a daily basis!

• NEW! SolarWinds Free SAN Monitor - keep a close eye on the performance & capacity of your storage arrays and become a storage superhero!


• NEW! SolarWinds Free Network Device Monitor - monitor any statistic on any SNMP-enabled network device using a groovy desktop dashboard!


• NEW! SolarWinds Free Network Config Generator - quickly and easily configure VLANs and other advanced network device features without ever opening the CLI!


• SolarWinds Free TFTP Server - upload and download executable images and configurations to network devices - our most popular free network monitoring tool!


• WMI Monitor - monitor your Windows® apps and servers in real time, using built-in, community-sourced, and customizable application templates!


• IP Address Tracker - scan, track, and consolidate your IP address information in one easy place, saving you time and eliminating errors (and headaches)!


• IP SLA Monitor - quickly troubleshoot network slowdowns between sites and easily understand device-to-device performance using sophisticated Cisco® IP SLA operations.


• Free Kiwi Syslog Server - receive, log, display, and forward syslog messages from network devices with this easy-to-use Syslog Server.


• Free Kiwi CatTools - simplify daily management tasks with the ability to manage and backup network configurations.


• VM Monitor - continuously monitor a VMware® ESX Server and its virtual machines with at-a-glance virtualization health statistics.


• SolarWinds Free Real-time NetFlow Analyzer – capture and analyze up to one hour of NetFlow data to see what types of traffic are on your network, where it’s coming from, & where it’s going.


• SolarWinds Free Exchange Monitor – continuously monitor Exchange and get real-time insight into services, mail queue sizes, and host server health with this clever desktop dashboard.


• SolarWinds Free NetFlow Configurator - configure NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco® devices - a perfect complement to Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and our free Real-time NetFlow Analyzer tool!


• SolarWinds Free Advanced Subnet Calculator - compute addresses for IP subnets - another perennial favorite in our suite of free network monitoring tools!


• SolarWinds Free Wake-On-LAN - remotely power up network PCs

"SolarWinds products are not only easy to use, operate and require no training, but they also enable us to quickly spot, isolate, diagnose and repair problems before they impact our users."

— Simon Bennett, Senior Information Security Specialist, University of Dundee