Polar Bear "Auvik" Slays Issues Across Multiple Networks
October 15, 2022
Polar Bear "Auvik" Slays Issues Across Multiple Networks
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Auvik
We use Auvik in multiple ways across most of our clients - discovery, management, mitigation, configuration management, network trends, flow monitoring, alerting, and others. Deployment is quick and lightweight, which makes buy-in that much easier.
Auvik has been used to address many business cases and situations, including malware/crypto mitigation, emergency outage responses, validation of the network, and trending of network flows to create a baseline of the environment.
Auvik has been used to address many business cases and situations, including malware/crypto mitigation, emergency outage responses, validation of the network, and trending of network flows to create a baseline of the environment.
- Discovering interconnectivity of network devices
- Configuration management
- Inventory
- Troubleshooting
- Mapping complex multiple-site interconnectivity could use improvement
- Inability to turn off banner messages
- Switch stack membership could use a better visual representation on the map
- Ease of troubleshooting
- Communication of network situation and awareness to clients
- Extreme amount of time saved when jumping between client environments and devices
- Ease of sharing network knowledge internally
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), PRTG Network Monitor, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution, Open Systems SASE+, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN (CloudGenix) and Zabbix
Auvik can stand up against any of the big network management and monitoring solutions on the market. I've implemented and used SolarWinds at many organizations for over 15 years. The paradigm that SolarWinds, PRTG, Prime, etc., work under is completely different than Auvik. It's apparent that Auvik was aiming to solve a different problem and built that solution from the ground up. For any organization responsible for multiple other organizations' infrastructure, Auvik is invaluable in comparison to the other products listed.
Do you think Auvik delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Auvik's feature set?
Yes
Did Auvik live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Auvik go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Auvik again?
Yes