BlueCat LiveAssurance vs. PingPlotter

BlueCat LiveAssurance

BlueCat LiveAssurance

1 Reviews and Ratings

PingPlotter

PingPlotter

42 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BlueCat LiveAssurance	Score 7.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	BlueCat LiveAssurance is a proactive monitoring and automation solution resulting from BlueCat's acquisition of Indeni. The platform provides automated DDI issue detection and insight into remediation to help proactively reduce network downtime.	N/A
PingPlotter	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier for everyone from online gamers and video streamers to VoIP admins and IT pros. Features for remote deployment, network monitoring, scripting, and a web interface are included along with several additional capabilities.	$0 per user

Pricing

BlueCat LiveAssurance

PingPlotter

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

PingPlotter Free: $0.00
per user
PingPlotter Free: $0.00
per user
PingPlotter Standard: $6.99
per user per month
PingPlotter Professional: $29.00
per user per month
PingPlotter Standard: $39.99
per user
PingPlotter Professional: $349.00
per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BlueCat LiveAssurance	PingPlotter
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	PingPlotter
Considered Both Products	BlueCat LiveAssurance Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Chose BlueCat LiveAssurance Indeni is not a substitution, I guess it can be used for operations support while Cisco Prime does configuration management and PRTG can monitor traffic and/or WAN. Incentivized Helpful?	PingPlotter JS James Bennett Saxon Software Realizer Chose PingPlotter I used Ping.app and UptimeLog.app on the Mac. These both provided different aspects. These two had a menubar to show me green or red for multiple connections. UptimeLog showed me very clearly when my connectivity was on or off and for exactly how long. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter Free vs paid is winning. Incentivized Helpful? CW Cameron Weir CEO Chose PingPlotter Has history and cloud access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter is much easy to work with Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter Okta is a mment in time, PingPlotter is continuous Incentivized Helpful? Chase Grimes Senior Technical Consultant Chose PingPlotter There program is unmatched for what it does, I wouldn't even recommend to myself trying another. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter I've tried more products that are not in the list but PingPlotter is the easiest to use and the better one so far because of the interface and function. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter has better visualizations and a stronger ability to capture historical data than other tools I've used. This makes it easier to find the root cause by looking back in the log data to find where latency or packet loss occurred. Incentivized Helpful? Martin Vandepas Hardware Engineer Chose PingPlotter Wireshark doesn't have this functionality and the commandline ping tool built into windows doesn't do plots. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter has a better UI and more customizable features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter I am not aware of any tools like PingPlotter. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter A balance of a generic tool vs a network equipment product is necessary when investigating network incidents or disruptions. Need to train the engineer to use both tools to perform their analysis and to dive down to the issues as fast as they can. Experience with the tools will … Incentivized Helpful? BS Brett Stone Network Operations Manager Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter stacks up very well to Solarwinds NPM and can provide many of the same benchmark tests that Solarwinds can. PingPlotter is most certianly much better at doing Traceroutes than NPM, and you can run a lot of the same reports. Incentivized Helpful? CM Carol-Guðrún McComb IT Technician Chose PingPlotter It didn’t come up to my expectations cause of Being 1. Less active Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter is a basic version of Auvik, although it is easier to setup and there is less intrusion in the customers network. This allows us to use PingPlotter as a prospecting tool and allows to accurately gather network information very quickly. Basic troubleshooting is great … Incentivized Helpful? Fraser Clark Network Engineer Chose PingPlotter I have tried a few free products and some paid ones but never really did what I wanted. I just needed a simple, always-on link monitor specifically with a traceroute element and this is what PingPlotter delivers. The others were either overly complex or too expensive, some just … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

BlueCat LiveAssurance

PingPlotter

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	BlueCat LiveAssurance - Ratings	PingPlotter 8.3 Ratings 5% above category average
Automated network device discovery	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Network monitoring	00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Alerts	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Customizable reports	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	PingPlotter
Small Businesses	Auvik Score 8.7 out of 10	NinjaOne Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	PingPlotter
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	PingPlotter
Likelihood to Recommend	This applies to current releases, I guess the next one will be much more comprehensive. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	It is well suited for performing monitoring and testing from a single device. It is less appropriate if you have to monitor from multiple different endpoints. That type of deployment would be more of an enterprise application. If you are looking for an end user monitoring solution then PingPlotter is the one for you. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Installation and initial setup. Updates. Communications and support from developers. Looks pretty solid, few bugs. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	Monitor traffic in network Measure stops when contacting network locations such as websites Measures the lag and latency it takes to contact network locations Gives you both induvidual measurements as well as good oversight identifies when network lag or disconnect occurs JH Johann Helgason Director of services Read full review
Cons	Hardware support. Slack integration (not sure if really needed, just because many others have this). Universal connector for Linux boxes. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	Its a little confusing to see which targets are currently running pings and which ones are displayed in the plots. Starting and stopping pings requires a right click and that would be better with a play/pause button I think. Ability to drag and drop the graphs to reorder them. more columns to show which targets are running and which are displayed. Currently this is done with symbols so you cant sort by just the running targets for example I've found. Incentivized Martin Vandepas Hardware Engineer Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	I installed it and it just started working. I realized I could then tweak it to show what I needed but didn't have to spend a long time configuring it before use, editing YAML files etc. Maybe that's fine for a network professional, but I only need this software if something goes wrong, and then need it to work quickly out of the box. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	I have not had much contact with the PingPlotter support, only one time have I went to them and it was a positive experience. The questions I had were answered quickly and professionally. I have no issue with the experience I had with the Support team. This was from before and after the purchase of the product. Incentivized Fraser Clark Network Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Indeni is not a substitution, I guess it can be used for operations support while Cisco Prime does configuration management and PRTG can monitor traffic and/or WAN. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	I used Ping.app and UptimeLog.app on the Mac. These both provided different aspects. These two had a menubar to show me green or red for multiple connections. UptimeLog showed me very clearly when my connectivity was on or off and for exactly how long JS James Bennett Saxon Software Realizer Read full review
Return on Investment	No, I am in the evaluation stage and cannot calculate ROI. Indeni can be used to support the implementation of high-scale projects. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	Great ROI, troubleshooting time has been reduced by 90% Network Discoveries used to take 2 to 3 hours and were inconsistent - now it is a matter of minutes lacks integration into our MSP toolkit, and we now use it as a stand alone product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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