Centreon vs. LiveAction

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Centreon
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Centreon, from the French company of the same name, is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform.N/A
LiveAction
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A
Pricing
CentreonLiveAction
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CentreonLiveAction
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
CentreonLiveAction
Features
CentreonLiveAction
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Centreon
-
Ratings
LiveAction
6.9
2 Ratings
15% below category average
Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
Network capacity planning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Network mapping00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
CentreonLiveAction
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CentreonLiveAction
Likelihood to Recommend
Centreon
It is a good product that is robust. They have a free version that makes the value good. If it cost money then the install and plugins would need polishing. But overall it is a good product that does what it says it does. But definitely not for beginners you do need some knowledge to set it up and get it running
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BlueCat
From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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Pros
Centreon
  • Monitor
  • Install
  • Stability
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BlueCat
  • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
  • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
  • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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Cons
Centreon
  • The install
  • More plugins
  • The alerting
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BlueCat
  • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
  • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
  • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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Support Rating
Centreon
No answers on this topic
BlueCat
Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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Alternatives Considered
Centreon
Centreon does a good job against these products. Of courseCentreon can be free and that is what we used. So it is not quite the same the other products are more polished and support is readily available. But Centreon is still good and if you have some knowledge can work just as well
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BlueCat
There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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Return on Investment
Centreon
  • It does monitoring very well
  • Details on issues is good
  • Customization is great.
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BlueCat
  • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
  • Great reporting features for executives.
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