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Network Monitoring Solutions Directory

Below is a directory of Network Monitoring vendors, tools and software solutions including a company overview, links to social media and contact information for the Top 28 Network Monitoring providers. If you would like a printed version of this page including solutions profiles and a list of the top questions to ask in an RFP – Request for Proposal, click here for a Free PDF.

Solutions Overview

Accedian Networks’ Performance Vision helps IT avoid and solve performance degradations by offering proactive end-user response time monitoring. Metrics are shared across IT teams and allow for quick and easy optimization...

Accedian Networks’ Performance Vision helps IT avoid and solve performance degradations by offering proactive end-user response time monitoring. Metrics are shared across IT teams and allow for quick and easy optimization of application delivery. This NPM tool provides agentless transaction and real-user monitoring with an ability to support up 40 Gbps environments and distributed environments. Network teams can monitor performance in real-time using a simple synthetic dashboard and identify and diagnose network errors with ease.

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Accedian acquired Performance Vision in early 2018, placing it alongside their other tools for service providers and enterprise network monitoring. Integration with other Accedian tools is easy, but some users have noted a lack of third-party integration, so businesses should be careful if they plan to implement Accedian into a multi-system architecture. Accedian is noted as uncomplicated to implement and is one of the more cost-effective NPM products available today.

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AppNeta offers an SaaS-based network monitoring tool that provides IT teams with the ability to monitor end-user experience across their organization’s cloud, network, or applications. AppNeta contains four modular tools;...

AppNeta offers an SaaS-based network monitoring tool that provides IT teams with the ability to monitor end-user experience across their organization’s cloud, network, or applications. AppNeta contains four modular tools; TraceView, AppView, FlowView and PathView. These capabilities work together to monitor and analyze United Statesge and performance across networks and applications. They offer a wide range of graphics and reporting to provide greater analytical capabilities as well. Each of the four modules is available as a separate subscription, with bundles accommodating businesses of any size.

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AppNeta’s network performance monitoring module constantly checks for latency, data loss, and a number of other network characteristics across IaaS networks, PaaS networks, hosted services, and web applications. Additional features such as multiple virtual network interfaces and automated discovery and diagnosis may be of interest to prospective buyers, but buyers should know that not every program is bundled together. Because of AppNeta’s focus on providing end-user satisfaction, any business that places network users high on their list of priorities should definitely consider them.

Solutions Overview

Auvik is easy-to-use cloud-based networking management and monitoring software—without the hassle. By automating and simplifying network management, Auvik helps rocket an IT team’s efficiency and capacity, while protectin...

Auvik is easy-to-use cloud-based networking management and monitoring software—without the hassle. By automating and simplifying network management, Auvik helps rocket an IT team’s efficiency and capacity, while protecting the business from network risk. Go beyond NetFlow to easily identify who’s on the network, what they’re doing, and where their traffic is going with Auvik TrafficInsights.

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With Auvik’s cloud-based network monitoring and management, you won’t need to spend time on the upkeep of your network monitoring platform. Auvik’s ease-of-use, quick setup time, and automated documentation enable IT teams to realize value in an hour or less. That time savings is reinforced every time network issues arise, as time to issue resolution drops substantially. In short, using Auvik gives you complete network visibility and control, allowing for quicker, easier troubleshooting.

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DX NetOps by CA Technologies, a Broadcom-owned company, is a network monitoring and analytics software that unifies traditional network and systems monitoring with full-stack analysis. The solution gathers intelligence on...

DX NetOps by CA Technologies, a Broadcom-owned company, is a network monitoring and analytics software that unifies traditional network and systems monitoring with full-stack analysis. The solution gathers intelligence on inventory, topology, device metrics, faults, flow, and packet analysis for traditional, software-defined, and cloud-based network architectures. DX NetOps is also augmented by Broadcom’s AIOps platform, bringing NetOps and AIOps together to proactively solve network problems through automated remediation capabilities.

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In November 2018, Broadcom completed its acquisition of CA Technologies, bringing CA’s portfolio (including its Network Operations Analytics platform) into the fold. CA has a long track record of success in the network monitoring marketplace even before the Broadcom deal. While DX NetOps can integrate with other Broadcom and CA solutions, Broadcom’s offerings are still sold separately, making them less than ideal for those seeking unified monitoring.

Solutions Overview

Catchpoint’s Network Insights is monitoring suite that provides network engineers and operations teams with full visibility into the OSI stack from Layer 3 to Layer 7. Network Insights consists of four primary capabilitie...

Catchpoint’s Network Insights is monitoring suite that provides network engineers and operations teams with full visibility into the OSI stack from Layer 3 to Layer 7. Network Insights consists of four primary capabilities: DNS monitoring, traceroute monitoring, BGP monitoring, and endpoint monitoring. Each of these capabilities provides visibility into different components of the delivery chain, which enables proactive detection and triage of problems that arise within network layers — endpoint, enterprise LAN/WAN, DNS, CDN, ISP, and cloud.

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Catchpoint provides synthetic monitoring for networks and applications on a global scale. With a global network of testing locations, users can combine multiple levels of network telemetry with application performance data, RUM data, and last mile data to get a complete view in a single platform. While Catchpoint may not be the best choice for those looking strictly for a network monitoring solution, the vendor’s monitoring suite provide comprehensive IT monitoring for unified operations.

Solutions Overview

Cisco Prime Performance Manager pulls actionable information from the entire network, including core, aggregation, and access networks. This product features a web-based interface, providing fast access to performance rep...

Cisco Prime Performance Manager pulls actionable information from the entire network, including core, aggregation, and access networks. This product features a web-based interface, providing fast access to performance reports featuring flexible options and detail searching. Cisco Prime allows network administrators to keep track of all wired and wireless devices on the network as well. Prime sends alerts if the network is being bogged down and collects data on devices and connectivity on a user-defined schedule.

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Because of its scalability, Cisco Prime’s network monitoring tool can be used by both small and large organizations. Performance Manager can integrate itself nicely alongside other Cisco Prime offerings, so infrastructures that utilize other Cisco Prime products already should take note of their network monitoring solution. Cisco Prime is an excellent option if your organization needs to take a closer look into application flows to troubleshoot and analyze network performance issues.

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Dynatrace offers a solution that includes both highly capable application and network monitoring functionality. These tools can be correlated with advanced application performance metrics to deliver insights on how networ...

Dynatrace offers a solution that includes both highly capable application and network monitoring functionality. These tools can be correlated with advanced application performance metrics to deliver insights on how network performance is affecting end-user experience. The solution offers advanced visibility that allows IT teams to quickly identify the services and processes experiencing network connectivity issues. In addition to identifying bottlenecks, Dynatrace analytics can help businesses plan for network and server resources.

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Dynatrace provides end-user focused network monitoring, giving organizations the ability to easily and visually detect problems before they spread. While some users have reported limiting UI options and lackluster system flexibility, the use of drill down options like PurePath allows network teams to quickly identify and provide initial problem analysis.

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Exoprise is a leading provider of SaaS and cloud monitoring with unmatched support for Office 365, Azure, Salesforce and more. Exoprise CloudReady is the platform for total digital experience management, providing users w...

Exoprise is a leading provider of SaaS and cloud monitoring with unmatched support for Office 365, Azure, Salesforce and more. Exoprise CloudReady is the platform for total digital experience management, providing users with end-to-end network and application visibility via real user monitoring or synthetic transaction monitoring. With Exoprise CloudReady, cloud and network administrators can find and fix problems fast, manage changes, observe trends, and improve performance and operations for the entire business.

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Exoprise CloudReady provides visibility and deep insight into the digital experiences across SaaS services, network transformations and cloud/app migrations. The vendor has a focus on digital experience monitoring to help users deal with the effects of cloud and network transformations. CloudReady helps administrators ensure optimal end-user experiences across applications, networks and services, especially for applications that have shifted to the cloud.

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ExtraHop’s performance monitoring platform gives organizations real-time visibility into their network from the inside out. With their network monitoring tools, IT teams can maintain a comprehensive view of the entire eco...

ExtraHop’s performance monitoring platform gives organizations real-time visibility into their network from the inside out. With their network monitoring tools, IT teams can maintain a comprehensive view of the entire ecosystem with auto-discovery and auto-classification. ExtraHop gives users the ability to mitigate performance issues immediately with continuous and real-time end-user monitoring. Empirical metrics across defendant systems can be employed to accelerate troubleshooting as well.

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ExtraHop’s NPM solution provides network-derived business intelligence data, giving IT operations users the ability to get closer to the lines of business with greatly improved application visibility. Customers have noted that ExtraHop is more difficult to navigate than other solutions. However, because ExtraHop relies extensively on machine learning to provide its analytics and reporting, it is a flexible tool that can cover a wide variety of network performance issues.

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Flowmon is a flow-based network monitoring solution that provides IT teams with an array of tools for network visibility and control. Flowmon probes and collectors help organizations gather, analyze, and store critical ne...

Flowmon is a flow-based network monitoring solution that provides IT teams with an array of tools for network visibility and control. Flowmon probes and collectors help organizations gather, analyze, and store critical network information. The solution features a number of modules that can extend and streamline the functionality of the Connector and Probes to allow for more advanced analysis of flow statistics.

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Flowmon is a highly scalable network monitoring solution with competitive pricing. Flowmon is noted for its easy deployment, giving network managers the ability to set up the solution in under an hour and with no extra skills. While some users reported confusion with the tool’s UI, Flowmon offers solutions for different scales and levels of business, so both enterprise, mid-size, and small companies have options.

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HPE’s network monitoring tool is comprised of Aruba AirWave and HPE Intelligent Management Center. AirWave provides granular visibility for wired and wireless networks and is designed to detect mobile devices and applicat...

HPE’s network monitoring tool is comprised of Aruba AirWave and HPE Intelligent Management Center. AirWave provides granular visibility for wired and wireless networks and is designed to detect mobile devices and applications in addition to traditional sensors. IMC manages data centers and core networks and provides clearly defined network data for IT teams. IMC features a modular network with tools that cover traffic analysis, remote network management and intelligence reporting.

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HPE boasts a massive portfolio of complementary performance monitoring products featuring integration with other HPE products. While HPE is popular with mid-size and large businesses, it’s still struggling to catch on with smaller organizations (HPE offers a “Basic” solutions plan for networks with 50 devices or less, but it has fewer features). Aruba AirWave has been complimented by enterprise companies and businesses that heavily utilize Wi-Fi networks as being a good fit for operations on that scale.

Solutions Overview

Infovista’s network monitoring product, 5View, includes 5View Application, 5View Mediation, and 5View Netflow. With this host of tools, users are given full visibility over their network activity. InfoVista’s tools suppor...

Infovista’s network monitoring product, 5View, includes 5View Application, 5View Mediation, and 5View Netflow. With this host of tools, users are given full visibility over their network activity. InfoVista’s tools support cloud and SSL based applications, VXLAN, and a number of other features. The provider also offers a new cloud-based SD-WAN solution called IpanemaGO. While the product is similar to NPM, IpanemaGO works to lower adoption barriers for organizations looking to improve their network through SD-WAN.

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InfoVista’s 5View Suite and Vistasight are both multi-tenant, carrier grade solutions designed to meet the unique needs of carrier service providers. The InfoVista NPM solution is highly extensible and provides visibility, alarms, and performance analytics quickly. A small sub-section of users report a longer-than-normal implementation process and recommend that the product be integrated as part of an ecosystem of other tools. However, 5View is a powerful product and looks to be a good fit for organizations that are looking to enhance their network monitoring infrastructure.

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Kentik offers a scalable and customizable AIOps solution for network professionals that provides full network visibility. They combine a NetFlow network monitoring tool with solutions for ingesting data like VPC Flow Logs...

Kentik offers a scalable and customizable AIOps solution for network professionals that provides full network visibility. They combine a NetFlow network monitoring tool with solutions for ingesting data like VPC Flow Logs, business context, and application context. Kentik’s machine-learning driven solution advises on network and security performance, troubleshooting, planning, and cost management. On one screen, Kentik provides visibility and insights wherever your traffic flows, from your network to applications, to the internet, to the cloud in real time.

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Kentik’s Network Traffic Intelligence unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence. It digests traffic flow wherever it travels, enriches it with business data and provides insights via dashboards. When congestion, hot-spots, outages, and other traffic anomalies occur, Kentik allows you to uncover the root cause by drilling down on top contributors and understanding how they map to your physical or logical infrastructure in real time.

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LiveAction’s network visualization and analytics tool, LiveNX, eases network monitoring and configuration. The LiveNX interface allows for thorough insight into a network’s topology with in-depth views of devices, interfa...

LiveAction’s network visualization and analytics tool, LiveNX, eases network monitoring and configuration. The LiveNX interface allows for thorough insight into a network’s topology with in-depth views of devices, interfaces, and network flows. Apart from visualization, LiveNX gives IT teams the ability to access performance metrics and take the appropriate action to address issues. LiveNX comes with User Experience, Insight, and EndPoint Agent, which respectively analyzes connectivity, detects network patterns, and monitors endpoints.

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LiveNX features unique SD-WAN traffic steering capabilities paired with overlay views of control plane and network flow data. The tool offers impressive visualization of network topologies, helping with troubleshooting and problem diagnosis and allowing users to easily interpret network issues. Because in-house resources are heavily focused on North America, businesses in other regions should check to ensure they’ll be supported.

Solutions Overview

LogicMonitor is an agentless SaaS-based network monitoring solution that gives organizations the ability to discover all network devices and interfaces. Through alerts and interface metrics, users are given greater visibi...

LogicMonitor is an agentless SaaS-based network monitoring solution that gives organizations the ability to discover all network devices and interfaces. Through alerts and interface metrics, users are given greater visibility into error rates, network usage, and throughput. With support for over a variety of different technologies, IT teams can collect and analyze network performance data from all of their networking gear. In addition to switches, routers, and firewalls, LogicMonitor can also cover cloud and hybrid IT environments.

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LogicMonitor is a professional-grade network monitoring solution. Its flexible web portal includes custom dashboards, configurable alerts, and customizable network reports. Due to the extensive customization options, however, this solution may be a bit too complex for some users. Users report being impressed with LogicMonitor’s visibility capabilities and scale, though some have reported slow feature updates and challenges in adopting the service.

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LogRhythm NetMon provides visibility and security analytics for an organization’s entire network—either as an independent network forensics solution or as a component of the LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management platform....

LogRhythm NetMon provides visibility and security analytics for an organization’s entire network—either as an independent network forensics solution or as a component of the LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management platform. The product identifies anomalies in a network and sends investigative probes to determine if they pose a threat. The platform is able to detect and monitor several different devices, bringing compatibility with IoT and BYOD while maintaining security across all areas of the network.

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LogRhythm’s focus on network security makes it ideal for companies looking to beef up their security detection and response systems or who are also looking for an SIEM solution. The UI for their platforms has been praised for its ease of understanding and comprehensiveness as well. The company is a major player in the SIEM marketplace, and its security capabilities means that threat elimination is a top priority.

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ManageEngine offers OpManager, an integrated network monitoring tool that allows for full visibility into networks, applications and infrastructure. OpManager is written in Java and uses a local installation of Tomcat for...

ManageEngine offers OpManager, an integrated network monitoring tool that allows for full visibility into networks, applications and infrastructure. OpManager is written in Java and uses a local installation of Tomcat for its web interface. A local database stores all collected information and provides a communication path between the OpManager and plug-ins. The OpManager Applications Manager plug-in brings in supported commercial applications including databases from IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, as well as other open-source products.

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ManageEngine’s OpManager provides a robust selection of network monitoring tools for IT generalists including application performance management, network monitoring, and infrastructure management. Users have stated that the integration process is easy, as is configuring the program. However, there are a few missing features for enterprise network monitoring found in other offerings including, most importantly for clipped management. OpManager is also lower on the price scale than its competitors, so budget-conscious should definitely consider it.

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Monitis is a web-based network monitoring tool that allows businesses to take control of their IT system no matter their location. With this monitoring solution, all server, sites, networks, and applications can be access...

Monitis is a web-based network monitoring tool that allows businesses to take control of their IT system no matter their location. With this monitoring solution, all server, sites, networks, and applications can be accessed through one simple dashboard interface. Monitis provides users with alerts and reports 24/7 through emails, SMS, calls, and mobile applications, even when the network is down. Monitis is web-based, so there is no need to download any software – everything is run from the Monitis portal through a web browser.

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Monitis is capable of monitoring applications, cloud services, mail servers, and servers in addition to networks. It also supports custom functionality through its application programming interface, time zones, sub-accounts, command line interface, and different access levels for users. Since the service is completely web-based, downtime will impact your ability to monitor your network. However, custom pricing options are attractive organizations that want to ensure they get their money’s worth.

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Netreo is a full stack IT monitoring, AIOps, and automation platform that provides a single source of information for performance and availability of large enterprise networks, infrastructures, and applications. The vendo...

Netreo is a full stack IT monitoring, AIOps, and automation platform that provides a single source of information for performance and availability of large enterprise networks, infrastructures, and applications. The vendor’s AIOps engine leverages available network and infrastructure data and correlates with decades of historical performance baselines and trends. The platform is available as an on-premise implementation, a native cloud SaaS platform, or in a Bring Your Own Infrastructure (BYOI) environment.

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Netreo can observe and automate everything across the enterprise in a single, unified dashboard, and has released several new features in the past year. The vendor was named to the 2020 Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies — the fourth consecutive year for Netreo. While some users have reported problems with the alerting and reporting capabilities, G2 user reviews highlight the solution’s simplicity and ease-of-use.

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NETSCOUT offers IT teams full visibility into its infrastructure, interdependencies and all its applications. The tool utilizes adaptive service intelligence technology to allow for continuous monitoring and analysis of n...

NETSCOUT offers IT teams full visibility into its infrastructure, interdependencies and all its applications. The tool utilizes adaptive service intelligence technology to allow for continuous monitoring and analysis of network traffic data. NETSCOUT combines network and application performance management to provide macro-level insights into performance, allowing for the identification of capacities, network shortfalls and more. NETSCOUT’s customers are largely enterprise organizations.

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NETSCOUT’s nGeniusONE platform provides packet-level analysis and a universal monitor that OFFERS clear insight into the network’s performance. Some users have complained about the cost of the platform as well as the difficulty and complexity in maintaining it. It should also be noted that nGeniusONE does not provide real-time analysis, but is especially suited for packet analysis and network monitoring reports. Thus, companies that don’t require real-time evaluation of their network performance may consider NetScout.

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Obkio is a Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting SaaS solution designed to monitor end-to-end network performance from the end-user perspective. Obkio leverages Network Monitoring Agents and synthetic traffic to continuo...

Obkio is a Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting SaaS solution designed to monitor end-to-end network performance from the end-user perspective. Obkio leverages Network Monitoring Agents and synthetic traffic to continuously identify the causes of intermittent VoIP, video, and applications slowdown in seconds – identifying the data you need to troubleshoot and ultimately improve the end-user experience.

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Obkio’s Network Monitoring SaaS solution’s focused goal is to simplify network performance monitoring for modern, decentralized networks. The increasing use of hosted services and SaaS applications brought significant changes to the architecture of networks and data flows. Obkio monitors all network types from one end of the network to the other- from WAN to LAN. Obkio is designed for any industry, and can scale with businesses of all sizes.

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Opmantek is a network fault and performance monitoring vendor whose most popular products are open-source solutions. In addition to its core solution, Opmantek offers a number of commercial add-on modules, managed service...

Opmantek is a network fault and performance monitoring vendor whose most popular products are open-source solutions. In addition to its core solution, Opmantek offers a number of commercial add-on modules, managed service provider solutions, support, and assistance with customizations. Opmantek’s Virtual Appliance Package offers free licenses for its NMIS8 and Open-AudIT programs as well as trial versions of all downloadable modules.

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Opmantek NMIS is a highly scalable network monitoring solution that helps organizations to detect faults, review current and historical network performance and predict where future failures are likely to occur. The solution supports two free open-source products, NMIS and Open-AudIT. It also features a suite of commercial products that bring additional features and capabilities to the software. Opmantek is node-based, so engineers who are used to analyzing network performance from a data standpoint will need to adjust accordingly.

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Paessler is a German-based network monitoring provider with a focus on infrastructure monitoring. Its PRTG network monitor product offers fault and flow analysis, packet sniffing, and more. Paessler has continued to relea...

Paessler is a German-based network monitoring provider with a focus on infrastructure monitoring. Its PRTG network monitor product offers fault and flow analysis, packet sniffing, and more. Paessler has continued to release a consistent stream of vendor-agnostic network monitoring sensors for PRTG as well. The solution features unified monitoring, with its powerful dashboard giving network administrators end-to-end visibility of their entire IT suite at all times.

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With Paessler’s rapid development stream, sensors are updated and released regularly on a monthly basis. This vendor primarily markets to mid-sized enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses. PRTG focuses on network monitoring, not server monitoring; and while PRTG is capable of examining servers, options for monitoring them are more limited. PRTG’s view can be customized to provide different views for each team member depending on their needs as well. Paessler also offers PRTG as a hosted solution, which may appeal to some organizations.

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Plixer offers Scrutinizer, one of the leading network flow products on the market. Scrutinizer is designed to work as a network forensics and security tool as well. The product can alert network teams about traffic patter...

Plixer offers Scrutinizer, one of the leading network flow products on the market. Scrutinizer is designed to work as a network forensics and security tool as well. The product can alert network teams about traffic patterns, offers DNS integration, and provides full visibility into network information that typically stays hidden. Scrutinizer also allows administrators to peer deep into their network to see where threats are originating and how the network is being used.

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Scrutinizer is vendor agnostic and handles any flows like sFlow, Netflow, JFlow, and IPFIX. The solution is scalable, with easy integration with existing network environments. However, scaling for smaller businesses is reported to be less reliable, as Plixer is designed primarily for enterprise and large organizations. Scrutnizer does feature notable integration with other network monitoring tools, network mapping tools, and more; so companies with an already established architecture have nothing to worry about on the implementation front.

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Corvil Anayltics, a Pico product, is a network monitoring and analysis suite designed for financial institutions. Analytics is one of three main offerings that Corvil provides, the others being Corvil Center (for collecti...

Corvil Anayltics, a Pico product, is a network monitoring and analysis suite designed for financial institutions. Analytics is one of three main offerings that Corvil provides, the others being Corvil Center (for collecting and timestamping data) and Corvil Intelligence Hub (for applying machine learning and intelligent anomaly detection). The provider currently offers over 500 different plug-ins for analytics that are bundled into solution packs; each plug-in helps financial businesses decipher information from specific network protocols and applications.

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Corvil Analytics reports granular behavior of network traffic, right down to individual packets and transactions, providing a more comprehensive overview of the network. Corvil was acquired by financial technology vendor Pico in 2019; the tool’s focus appears to now be predominantly on finance use cases. While this will not appeal to other businesses, it makes Corvil an excellent consideration for financial institutions looking to improve business performance and security.

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Progress WhatsUp Gold is a comprehensive monitoring software suite that covers infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, and network monitoring. WhatsUp constantly checks for network uptime and downti...

Progress WhatsUp Gold is a comprehensive monitoring software suite that covers infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, and network monitoring. WhatsUp constantly checks for network uptime and downtime, predicting connectivity problems before they happen. With WhatsUp, users can ensure that product installation and deployment is as quick and easy as possible. Progress offers both a web-based user interface and a traditional Windows application for managing different aspects of the program.

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With a breadth of network monitoring functionality (APM, NPM, and infrastructure management) wrapped up in one piece of software, small and medium-sized businesses should take note of this product. While the vendor’s monitoring bundle manages to compete with a number of the other comparable products in the space, Progress may not provide as much specialization. Progress offers excellent customer service and support guidance for VMware virtual machines, however.

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Riverbed’s SteelCentral NPM and APM tool offers full network visibility, analytics, troubleshooting and user monitoring. The solution is divided into two platforms, one for SMBs and the other for large organizations and t...

Riverbed’s SteelCentral NPM and APM tool offers full network visibility, analytics, troubleshooting and user monitoring. The solution is divided into two platforms, one for SMBs and the other for large organizations and the enterprise. Riverbed provides customers with four levels of support depending on how quickly they need replacement equipment shipped in the event of a network failure. While the SMB version of SteelCentral is available for $20,000, larger and more full-featured deployments can reach up to six-figures.

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Riverbed’s SteelCentral provides high visibility across a network, no matter how large it is. Users have noted the particularly strong APM capabilities included, so developers will gain the added bonus of being able to examine the performance of their applications as they see fit. While users that act strictly on the operational level may find the solution’s system unfit for their architecture, companies that develop applications would be wise to consider Riverbed because of their focus on APM.

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SevOne’s network and traffic monitoring product uses a cluster architecture to provide a fast and scalable network performance monitoring platform. This vendor focuses on infrastructure monitoring, paired with flow and lo...

SevOne’s network and traffic monitoring product uses a cluster architecture to provide a fast and scalable network performance monitoring platform. This vendor focuses on infrastructure monitoring, paired with flow and log monitoring as well. SevOne supports live network maps and infrastructure orchestration solutions, SD-WAN, hybrid cloud, and carrier network virtualization. Their DataInsight tool allows for customizable visualizations and reports on a network’s performance, alongside flexible workflows that allow for configurable delivery.

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SevOne’s cluster architecture allows for its NPM solution to handle the high volume and variety of data found in many networks. While the company primarily markets itself to large enterprise and the service provider market, smaller organizations are still likely to find some features that will catch their interest. Though some SevOne users wish the solution’s product documentation and user guides were better, the company is noted for its ability to handle performance monitoring data with ease.

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SolarWinds offers an NPM solution suite that provides a wide range of network performance analytics and management capabilities. With SolarWinds’ NPM solution, users can identify dead zones and improve their wireless netw...

SolarWinds offers an NPM solution suite that provides a wide range of network performance analytics and management capabilities. With SolarWinds’ NPM solution, users can identify dead zones and improve their wireless network coverage. Additionally, the product can generate out-of-the-box wireless reports for wireless availability and rogue access points. SolarWinds offers all of their services individually, but also offers bundles for companies looking to integrate a wider solution base.

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SolarWinds has achieved significant name recognition and an established base over the years. The tool is fully scalable and fully customizable, which should be a good fit for businesses with changing needs. While SolarWinds offers a basic packet monitoring solution through its QoE agents, the feature doesn’t appear to be known among its customer base and hasn’t seen significant investment from SolarWinds. The provider also offers topology mapping, network configuration management, and APM capabilities.

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Statseeker offers a product that monitors every physical, virtual, and logical interface across an organization. This NPM tool has a major focus on rapid deployment and low-cost scalability. Statseeker features three diff...

Statseeker offers a product that monitors every physical, virtual, and logical interface across an organization. This NPM tool has a major focus on rapid deployment and low-cost scalability. Statseeker features three different licensing options; Statseeker, Statseeker Professional, and Statseeker Enterprise. With these three options, users are able to use work with a solution that best meets their business needs. Statseeker scales from 10,000+ to 1,000,000 interfaces on just a single server with only modest requirements.

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Statseeker is highly recommended for businesses that are looking to upgrade or renew their maintenance contract for an existing network and want to do a full cost and capabilities check-up. The company’s support teams are quick to respond to questions or problems, and deployment is reportedly quick and easy. Though some of its reference customers complain of slower-than-average feature updates and upgrades, Statseeker’s network monitoring portfolio provides a solution suite for organizations of any size.

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ThousandEyes is a cloud-based network monitoring solution that allows IT teams to diagnose performance issues with both network infrastructure and applications. ThousandEyes is able to identify network problems across an ...

ThousandEyes is a cloud-based network monitoring solution that allows IT teams to diagnose performance issues with both network infrastructure and applications. ThousandEyes is able to identify network problems across an organization by collecting topology information and using it to depict the paths taken by the network traffic from the source to the destination. This NPM solution uses agents to generate synthetic traffic that is used to probe network patterns and flows.

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If you’re looking to monitor your network in an effective and time-efficient way while still providing a comprehensive view of the network, you should consider ThousandEyes. The tool offers a clean and easy-to-use interface and features network insights using a clear visual approach. Though EUM capabilities are weaker than other services since ThousandEyes focuses more on network routing and path tracing, users can deploy their own sensors, giving them more control over their network monitor structure.

Solutions Overview

The Viavi NPM solution consists of the Observer Performance Management Platform, which includes Observer Apex, Observer Analyzer, Management Server, GigStor, and Probes. Viavi deployment methods use a virtual appliance ca...

The Viavi NPM solution consists of the Observer Performance Management Platform, which includes Observer Apex, Observer Analyzer, Management Server, GigStor, and Probes. Viavi deployment methods use a virtual appliance called GigaStor Software Edition, which is capable of supporting 8 terabytes of storage and offering visibility into network traffic. All Viavi Observer products must be purchased through an authorized partner, and the product’s final price depends on the size of an organization’s network and the number of features chosen to implement.

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Viavi is a vendor with a long history in network performance monitoring. The Viavi performance monitoring solution is a comprehensive, packet based NPM tool with deployment options that will work for any organization. To get the full effect of Viavi’s tools, it is recommended that you implement them all at once – companies only looking to integrate one or two tools may not be satisfied. If your company is looking for a network monitor with packet-friendly capabilities, Viavi would be a vendor to consider.

Solutions Overview

Zabbix is an open-source, real-time, network performance monitoring solution available as a software and virtual appliance download. The configuration and setup of the tool is fairly easy and ensures a low learning curve....

Zabbix is an open-source, real-time, network performance monitoring solution available as a software and virtual appliance download. The configuration and setup of the tool is fairly easy and ensures a low learning curve. Zabbix is designed to be scaled from small business environments to large enterprises with ease. This scalability is made possible through intelligent algorithms that take advantage of modern hardware and software modularity. This solution has been optimized for high performance for monitoring the operating system and application-specific metrics.

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Zabbix’s web monitoring feature gives organizations the ability to monitor the availability and performance of any web-based services. One common complaint about Zabbix is that it lacks real-time tests, as well as complex templates and alerting rules. Because Zabbix’s tools and software are open-source, users with coding and technical knowledge can fit Zabbix’s capabilities to suit all their needs. While this will require training, it also allows users access to the Zabbix community of developers and support team members.