Colasoft Capsa vs. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Colasoft Capsa
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Colasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
Score 9.4 out of 10
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NetFlow Analyzer is a complete bandwidth monitoring tool that utilizes flow technology to monitor and analyze network bandwidth usage. It helps users identify and avoid bandwidth delays and bottlenecks with customized reports, and set threshold-based email and SMS alerts to help understand the severity of an issue. This analytics tool detects, diagnoses, and troubleshoots network anomalies and zero-day intrusions, and plans future bandwidth needs based on application growth to…N/A
Pricing
Colasoft CapsaManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
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Colasoft CapsaManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$595 per installation
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User Ratings
Colasoft CapsaManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Colasoft CapsaManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend
Colasoft
Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
Identifying network traffic anomalies. Identifying applications, devices, or users that are utilizing high bandwidth. Capacity planning for network links and internet circuits. Detecting potential security threats or breaches. Network performance and troubleshooting. Reporting network utilization.
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Pros
Colasoft
  • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
  • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
  • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Analyze network traffic by breaking it down into conversations with the ability to look at ingress and egress traffic.
  • Gives a quick view of overall performance.
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Cons
Colasoft
  • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
  • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
  • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Check Network
  • Check Flows
  • Traffic
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Support Rating
Colasoft
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
The support is always on point, fast, reliable, and their employees go above and beyond to help when we need it. I have yet to call them on any product we use and not get the issue resolved in a fast and timely manner. Also, they are also very pleasant while on the phone and/or in teh email chain. Overall I just couldn't ask for better.
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Alternatives Considered
Colasoft
Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
Each of these solutions does what they aim to do. Based off of cost and need, ManageEngine fit better with our organization. We already use multiple ManageEngine products so bundling was a no brainer.
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Return on Investment
Colasoft
  • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
  • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Lot of positive impacts
  • Low Budget
  • Great results
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ScreenShots

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer Screenshots

Screenshot of NetFlow Analyzer Dashboard overviewScreenshot of Drill-down to device and interface detailsScreenshot of Create logical groups for department-wise monitoringScreenshot of Track top conversations in your networkScreenshot of Identify security threatsScreenshot of Bandwidth trends forecasting and capacity planning