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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Network Watcher

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.N/A

    Nagios Core

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ANagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.N/A

    NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ANETSCOUT’s nGeniousONE is a platform designed to monitor enterprise-level networks. It includes standard monitoring capabilities, as well as advanced inspection and analytics features.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Network WatcherNagios CoreNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    Editions & Modules
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    Single License
    Free
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    Azure Network WatcherNagios CoreNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Network WatcherNagios CoreNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
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    NETSCOUT
    Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    SolarWinds provides better modularity, improving your ROI by paying only for what you need as opposed to paying for the entire suite whether you need it or not. It also seems to be much more intuitive. However, I'm not sure that it provides packet capturing functionality for …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
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    Features
    Azure Network WatcherNagios CoreNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Azure Network Watcher and Nagios Core and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    Feature
    Azure Network Watcher
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Nagios Core
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    Ratings
    NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    8.7
    6 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Automated network device discovery8.34 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Network monitoring8.34 Ratings00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Alerts9.34 Ratings00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Network capacity planning8.84 Ratings00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis8.34 Ratings00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Network mapping8.24 Ratings00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Customizable reports8.54 Ratings00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.02 Ratings00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring8.13 Ratings00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure Network WatcherNagios CoreNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    8.5
    (44 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.9
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
    -
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    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    7.5
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Network WatcherNagios CoreNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Network Watcher is well suited to monitor or diagnose logs for azure virtual network, managing connection/relationship between virtual networks. Diagnose network traffic, network traffic etc. Overall, it is appropriate to use in monitoring, diagnostic and logging activities for resources in azure virtual network. It is mainly used in infrastructure as a service component.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Nagios monitoring is well suited for any mission critical application that requires per/second (or minute) monitoring. This would probably include even a shuttle launch. As Nagios was built around Linux, most (85%) plugins are Linux based, therefore its more suitable for a Linux environment.
    As Nagios (and dependent components) requires complex configurations & compilations, an experienced Linux engineer would be needed to install all relevant components.
    Any company that has hundreds (or thousands) of servers & services to monitor would require a stable monitoring solution like Nagios. I have seen Nagios used in extremely mediocre ways, but the core power lies when its fully configured with all remaining open-source components (i.e. MySQL, Grafana, NRDP etc). Nagios in the hands of an experienced Linux engineer can transform the organizations monitoring by taking preventative measures before a disaster strikes.
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    NETSCOUT
    NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a great network performance monitoring tool as it helps to trace the path of packet and to identify the exact place where the packet is loss. It is well suited in scenarios where the organization have large network and they need continuous monitoring because loss of connectivity may lead to serious financial loss in sectors like banking, hospitals. The network performance and connectivity needs to be stable for proper execution of transactions, bookings, data transfer and other critical task. Performance monitoring of large enterprise is a big task and doing that manually requires very much effort, but with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE it becomes easy. It is not well suited in scenarios where there is small network and they can survive if any link flaps for small duration of time.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • View resources and theri relationship
    • Diagnose network routing problems
    • View security rules for a network interface
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Monitoring of services is one of the biggest benefits for our company. Being able to respond in a timely fashion keeps business smooth.
    • Hardware and device monitoring are easy to set up with proper parameters.
    • Notification to key staff to be able to respond quickly makes issues go away faster.
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    NETSCOUT
    • NetScout nGeniusONE can help to deep dive into the packet layer, help to identify the real network and service performance problems in the protocol layer. We have been using NetScout nGeniusONE as the main monitoring solution for the mobile network for many years.
    • I have recently use NetScout nGeniusONE to support problem troubleshooting for a customer issue complaining of slow application connection into our Datacenter services. it was easy to use NetScout nGeniusONE to capture the problematic connection sessions by using various type of filters and export a pcap file for further analysis.
    • I‘ve also use NetScout nGeniusONE to investigate an NBN connection issue which was intermittent and hard to capture, however, by using NetScout nGeniusONE it was easy to go back to the history capture and logs, so we won't miss any important leads.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • More granular visualization through the Azure Network. Ex. Seeing NSG Flow through each Hop.
    • Allow for more capabilities to view Connectivity through On-Premise Networks.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Nagios could use core improvements in HA, though, Nagios itself recommends monitoring itself with just another Nagios installation, which has worked fine for us. Given its stability, and this work-around, a minor need.
    • Nagios could also use improvements, feature wise, to the web gui. There is a lot in Nagios XI which I felt were almost excluded intentionally from the core project. Given the core functionality, a minor need. We have moved admin facing alerts to appear as though they originate from a different service to make interacting with alerts more practical.
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    NETSCOUT
    • Better access to resources
    • Pricing in this niche market is very high, hard for the little guy to take advantage of these solutions
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    We're currently looking to combine a bunch of our network montioring solutions into a single platform. Running multiple unique solutions for monitoring, data collection, compliance reporting etc has become a lot to manage.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    Nagios Enterprises
    The Nagios UI is in need of a complete overhaul. Nice graphics and trendy fonts are easy on the eyes, but the menu system is dated, the lack of built in graphing support is confusing, and the learning curve for a new user is too steep.
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    NETSCOUT
    Requires quite a bit of training not only for config but to use. Highly recommend having a SME come in from Netscout to help initially for these. Once you learn the UI, it’s much better to use but is not intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    I haven't had to use support very often, but when I have, it has been effective in helping to accomplish our goals. Since Nagios has been very popular for a long time, there is also a very large user base from which to learn from and help you get your questions answered.
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    NETSCOUT
    If you spend the right amount of money with them they work very close to you to support your needs. I ignore how they work in companies with lower expenses on their products. NetScout is not a very dynamic introducing platform with enhancements that their customers need. We contract their professional services so support level is good, although too pricey from my perspective.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure Network Watcher can help with resources in the Cloud if this device is able to send traffic. We are using Azure Network Watcher in cases Solarwinds can't cover easily like API to load balancers & additional testing.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Because we get all we required in Nagios [Core] and for npm, we have to do lots of configuration as it is not as easy as Comair to Nagios [Core]. On npm UI, there is lots of data, so we are not able to track exact data for analysis, which is why we use Nagios [Core].
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    NETSCOUT
    Wireshark has been around for years and has been used primarily for packet analyzing. NetScout does this and goes above and beyond with the graphics interface analyzes and customer filtering for packet analyzes. You can go straight to the packet analyze within NetScout but you will find that to be more work, this would be like starting with Wireshark. Instead, begin with the graphical interface to narrow down the traffic, a visual effect. Then go to the packet analyzer, time saver. As for PRTG, it's a NetFlow/SNMP collector with a quick and dirty look at traffic but lacks the tools to dig into the information it provides.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Positive impact as it helps in setting up critical alerts
    • Monitoring network, hardware
    • Customizable reports can be set which helps in business objective
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • With it being a free tool, there is no cost associated with it, so it's very valuable to an organization to get something that is so great and widely used for free.
    • You can set up as many alerts as you want without incurring any fees.
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    NETSCOUT
    • NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is the best tool and very profitable for our organization as it helped in to reduce the manual effort of engineers to track the Network flaps and connectivity issue.
    • Return on investment for this product is quiet good as of now and we have achieved 80% ROI till now and we are very much confident that we will achieve the full ROI.
    • It has helped in cost cutting as we need only few network admin and engineers to track the discovery, behavior and connectivity. Earlier we need a lot of employee to do that due to which the organization may suffer some financial loss.
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