Azure Network Watcher vs. NETSCOUT TruView

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Network Watcher
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.N/A
TruView
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
NETSCOUT TruView is a unified network monitoring and APM tool. TruView is deployed as hardware on-premises, and it can automate capacity planning and environment discovery and configuration.N/A
Pricing
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT TruView
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Network WatcherTruView
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT TruView
Features
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT TruView
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Azure Network Watcher
8.3
4 Ratings
3% above category average
NETSCOUT TruView
9.5
2 Ratings
17% above category average
Automated network device discovery8.34 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Network monitoring8.34 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation8.04 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Alerts9.34 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Network capacity planning8.84 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Packet capture analysis8.34 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Network mapping8.24 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Customizable reports8.54 Ratings5.12 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.13 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT TruView
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(4 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT TruView
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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NETSCOUT
Netscout’s TruView monitoring system gives your IT department the perfect view of your network landscape. With the pulse hardware app, you can perform VoIP or HTTP network monitoring tests from specific remote locations and it will populate the analysis results into your console. This will give you perspective on how your sites are performing and detect any out of Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance even before users report it.
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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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NETSCOUT
  • The app monitoring gives you the details to set different filters and do a quick identification of the root cause of the problem.
  • Remarkable ability to store details of performance to analyze baselining, run advance troubleshooting, error detection and catalog by trends.
  • The ability to sync with a device/interface whether is physical or virtual gives me the standpoint to set analysis upon network traffic across LAN or WAN and also get the insight of Cloud segments, setting the triggers to find out where the behavior changes to non-production traffic.
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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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NETSCOUT
  • Product features are sometimes overwhelming if the IT team is not used to this technology. For a small and mid-size company, the number of settings and work that is needed to implement the solution could be a long and exhausting process.
  • A "lite" version of Visual TruView could help a lot to small sized environments looking to develop the solution.
  • I would like to add some mitigation tools for simple/common problems that could be easily managed by a monitoring tool like Netscout TruView.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
NETSCOUT
As mentioned before, our deployment success depended on their expertise. Recommendations and overall response from their support engineers was out of this world. We, as supporters ourselves, are very critical in regards to the response times and knowledge of support services representatives. Often they just want to resolve your ticket not caring about the result, or focus only on the performance review we could give them. That's a standard behavior in most overseas support centers. The TruView engineers and management cared about us, our needs, and how they delivered the help we needed.
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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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NETSCOUT
Visual TruView is a solid competitor with solutions such as SolarWinds NPM, Nagios, PRTG, or SolarWinds NTA. Why we chose TruView was because it goes straight to what we were looking for, no hidden modules or subscriptions to secondaries licensing terms, to get the results that we were expecting. TruView takes it to another level.
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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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NETSCOUT
  • Tool consolidation, an amazing GUI that shows the most from the very beginning helping the IT Teams to set their own dashboards according to their needs.
  • When they meant one price tag, that's it! You won't get a headache after the purchase process is done.
  • Better be ready to set the scales your organization requires because if you miss something in the design you could get an application size that overrides your initial budget.
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