Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs Sysdig Monitor comparison

The compared Auvik and Sysdig solutions aren't in the same category. Auvik is ranked #4 in NMS , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 1.3% mindshare in the category. Sysdig is ranked #9 in DCM , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 99% of Auvik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Sysdig users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Sysdig Monitor and Auvik Network Management compete in the network monitoring and management space, each tailored to distinct needs. Sysdig Monitor seems to have the upper hand in cloud-native strategies with its container management and security insights, while Auvik is better suited for on-premise and hybrid environments with its comprehensive network visibility and automation.

Features: Sysdig Monitor offers deep integration with Kubernetes, real-time threat detection, and detailed container performance analysis, providing scalability and flexibility crucial for dynamic environments. Auvik provides automated network mapping, robust monitoring capabilities across various devices, and simplified management through automation, which is ideal for infrastructure-focused IT environments. These features highlight Sysdig's focus on container ecosystems, whereas Auvik emphasizes network automation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sysdig Monitor supports various cloud integrations with a deployment model requiring technical proficiency and provides a robust support system for ongoing optimization. Auvik features a straightforward deployment with its agentless setup and extensive documentation, along with intuitive tools for small and medium-sized businesses. The decisive factor here is Sysdig's alignment with cloud-native setups compared to Auvik's ease of integrating with existing networks.

Pricing and ROI: Sysdig Monitor has a flexible pricing model aligned with cloud resource usage, offering predictable scaling costs. Auvik features a more traditional pricing model with potentially higher initial setup costs but provides significant ROI through automated management efficiencies. The distinction lies in Sysdig's value for cloud-centric models against Auvik's cost-effectiveness linked to on-premise networks.

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Categories and Ranking

Auvik Network Management (ANM)

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

216

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (4th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), Network Troubleshooting (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (2nd)

Sysdig Monitor

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Monitoring (9th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is designed for Network Monitoring Software and holds a mindshare of 1.3%, up 0.9% compared to last year.
Sysdig Monitor, on the other hand, focuses on Container Monitoring, holds 3.1% mindshare, up 0.6% since last year.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Auvik Network Management (ANM)	1.3%
Zabbix	3.9%
SolarWinds NPM	3.7%
Other	91.1%

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Container Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Sysdig Monitor	3.1%
Dynatrace	22.7%
Datadog	19.4%
Other	54.8%

Container Monitoring

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John Adeyemi

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer at TIGER LOGIC

Unified monitoring has provided real-time visibility and simplified network troubleshooting

One area of Auvik Network Management (ANM) that could be improved is that once it discovers network devices, the naming at times is confusing. Auvik Network Management (ANM) does not always bring out the hostname and instead brings out a generic name, which I then need to change. If Auvik Network Management (ANM) could improve this aspect so that when it discovers devices, it correctly retrieves the hostname every time, it would eliminate the need to edit each hostname, especially on PCs and printers. The GUI is fine. Auvik Network Management (ANM) has a level of access control where I can manage access and control user access to Auvik Network Management (ANM) portal. The GUI is acceptable for me. Gaining instant visibility into my network health with Auvik Network Management (ANM) is easy because from the setup, it is straightforward. For instance, I manage different sites, so all I need is to install Auvik Network Management (ANM) collector on any server in the environment. Once I install the collector, I automatically start discovering devices. The beauty of Auvik Network Management (ANM) is that it separates devices into tabs for routers, switches, wireless, computers and hosts, and others. At times it might not categorize some devices properly, but I can move them to the right sub-interfaces. In terms of visibility, it is very easy and fast compared to other management solutions I have used. Most other solutions are agentless, so they do not discover much and you might need to add them manually. With Auvik Network Management (ANM), I do not need to add anything manually as it discovers and updates automatically. Using Auvik Network Management (ANM) is mostly easy. I do not have any challenges. In terms of usability, it is fine. The visibility it provides is top-notch. Deployment is also easy. The only suggestion I would make is to make some of the fonts on the images on the topology bolder. Outside that, Auvik Network Management (ANM) is fine because from Auvik Network Management (ANM) management plane, I can push configurations to my devices, do backups, and many other things. Auvik Network Management (ANM) provides a network map along with its dashboard that gives me a real-time picture of my network. I have tested the intelligence myself by adding a new device on the network and after some minutes, seeing Auvik Network Management (ANM) update its topology. Even down to VPN and SSL site-to-site VPN access to other branches, Auvik Network Management (ANM) pulls out all these connections. When I have a new engineer on my team, I tell them to look at the topology, which is the network topology there. There is no need to draw with draw.io or Visio. It is Auvik Network Management (ANM). Using the network map and dashboard in Auvik Network Management (ANM) to gain real-time visibility into my network is somewhat easy. If Auvik Network Management (ANM) could work on making the pictures bolder, it would help considerably. Sometimes I need to open the topology in another tab and put it on another screen to make it bolder. If Auvik Network Management (ANM) could enhance the pictures to make them more bold, it would go a long way.

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Bharath Nadar

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Centralized host monitoring has reduced operational overhead and provides trusted dashboards

Sysdig Monitor could be improved, particularly regarding application monitoring. There are specific areas or features where improvement is needed, specifically in application-level monitoring. While other monitoring solutions provide APM capabilities, Sysdig Monitor does not and targets only host-based monitoring. Many applications require APM support, and we want to introduce OpenTelemetry into some applications to gain more insights, but with Sysdig Monitor, we could not implement this functionality, so we have to opt for solutions from other vendors for those applications. Beyond the APM and OpenTelemetry support limitations, I would appreciate seeing Sysdig Monitor offer a unified solution for all monitoring needs, including logging as well, eventually bringing whole observability under one roof. That would be ideal.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I love the alerting. With a single pane of glass, it's able to tell me that there's a firewall error, or that something is offline, there is a switch configuration error, or a configuration change has taken place on a certain device."

"Automated configuration backups and automated network diagrams are the most valuable."

"The feature I find most valuable in Auvik Network Management (ANM) is the rapid alerting system for when systems go up and down. T"

"The first feature that I appreciate is the topology drawing in real time. If our NOC wants to troubleshoot, they can go to the topology map and see that this access point is connected to that switch via that specific port. And when something changes in the topology, it's dynamically updated."

"The most valuable feature for us in Auvik is the network topology."

"The integration with other vendors, not just using their SNMP feature, but the actual integration to other cloud-based solutions is also valuable. We use Cisco Meraki, and integration into that has been very helpful."

"All the aspects it helps us with make it phenomenal."

"There are times when we inherit issues from whatever company we acquire, and deploying Auvik Network Management on a site and having it map everything that it can find and pull down all of the configuration is absolutely amazing for network discovery."

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"Sysdig Monitor has positively impacted my organization by significantly reducing operational costs and improving our ability to monitor our systems effectively."

"The ability to stop/pause and capture logs when something happens is the most valuable feature."

"Docker containers are completely supported, kind of like "first class citizens"."

"Sysdig Monitor impressed me with its in-depth visibility into my infrastructure."

Cons

"Auvik mostly supports large vendors such as the Cisco Aruba networks, Meraki, and Extreme Networks."

"Sometimes we get a generic device, then we can't tell what it is quickly from the details. Just having a better knowledge-based integration for determining what devices are, what they're make and models are, would be helpful."

"The discovery of devices in your inventory could be more automated. It doesn't find anything without an SNMP string. If you have an SNMP string, it'll find it for you and keep it in the inventory."

"We had some issues with the licensing. You need to pay for premium to use NetFlow, and we had a problem with them counting the same device multiple times for licensing purposes. It was a little frustrating because the Auvik database in the background didn't see it as a single device even though it came from the same critical hardware and only had one serial number. However, it was in different groups, so it was counted two or three times. It took a while to work with the accounting team to get that sorted."

"Sometimes the network map just doesn't want to update as quickly as it should, which can be frustrating."

"The mapping automatically finds all the interfaces but tags some of them incorrectly. For instance, if it can't find how a CPU interface is connected, it will use the MAC address last seen on the router and sometimes attribute cloud-connected devices to the route, but it's not actually there. That's not a true connection."

"I want to see improvement around backups; we had a case where we created a ticket for online support, and they were able to set up backups for one of our devices, but they were unwilling to do the same backup script with a different device. The script uses the same code, just a different model number, and the engineers weren't willing to add it to the other model."

"Sometimes it's a little bit slow to load, but I can't think of anything else that could be improved."

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"I had difficulty installing Sysdig Monitor on Windows."

""Events" reporting (errors, crashes, etc.) is not clear at all in a Mesos environment (i.e., it's not clear what specific container is the one that went down). In a Docker Compose environment, it may be way better."

"It is needs to automate the actions to take when an alert is triggered."

"Sysdig Monitor could be improved, particularly regarding application monitoring."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't have any insight into the cost, as another department handles that."

"For small businesses with many devices, the tool is potentially unaffordable. Auvik Networks Inc. is competing with other companies offering very expensive products. Still, there's a gap in the market and potentially a lot of lost revenue for smaller customers, especially those with complex IT environments."

"Auvik Network Management's pricing was surprisingly reasonable."

"The cost for all the devices that we were billed at in my last job was about $2500 annually. It wasn't much. It has the most reasonable pricing as compared to any product out there. I can't complain. It is amazing. It allows me to bundle inside the package what I charge customers per user per month. I don't charge them per device anymore. That's not how we do things in the industry. It is per user per month. The way Auvik is charging us allows me to do it. For example, if they charge $250 for a certain number of seats, I'm just going to write the costs onto per user per month. I have a few leftover licenses to use, which allows me to go out and make some more sales and give some freebies at some shows. So, it makes me very flexible. I am very happy with it. It is billed by network devices. You could choose which billable device you want. What is really nice is that if you don't want one switch to be billable and the other one to be billable, you can do that. You just won't have the features that the billable switch has, which isn't horrible. Sometimes, you don't need that. What I'm really happy about is that Auvik doesn't force things on you and doesn't say, "You have to have all of this," and that's a great business model."

"Pricing for Auvik Network Management is genuine. I would categorize its pricing as good."

"The billing is excellent. The way they bill it, in most environments, it's not that expensive. The billing is very cost-effective."

"I don't know how much the solution costs, but the fact that we've moved almost all of our customers over to it means it must be worth the value. Our platforms are costly, but we switched to Auvik, so the company must see it as cost-effective."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

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"Sysdig Monitor is not expensive."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	155
Midsize Enterprise	32
Large Enterprise	25

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auvik?

I am from the technical department, so the pricing, setup cost, and licensing aspects have been managed by the management.

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What needs improvement with Auvik?

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What is your primary use case for Auvik?

I use Auvik Network Management (ANM) to monitor my entire IT infrastructure from the network, firewall, servers, wireless, and access points. By installing Auvik Network Management (ANM) collector ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sysdig Monitor?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good. Before moving forward with Sysdig Monitor, we analyzed many other tools, and the costing was more transparent and significantly bette...

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What needs improvement with Sysdig Monitor?

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What is your primary use case for Sysdig Monitor?

Sysdig Monitor has become essential for overseeing a vast array of hosts and EC2 instances across our environment. We initially tried Grafana, but it fell short in operational capabilities. Managin...

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Overview

Auvik Network Management offers competitive pricing for essential network and infrastructure device management, providing robust features valued by enterprises.

Auvik Network Management delivers comprehensive network visibility and management through intuitive auditing, alerting, and discovery functionalities. It eases troubleshooting, automates configuration backups, and includes a user-friendly interface for effective monitoring and management. With real-time alerts and customizable notifications, IT operations are streamlined, while remote access capabilities enhance time efficiency. ANM supports integration with other platforms, effectively maintaining device inventories and visualizing network topology.

What are the key features of Auvik Network Management?

Auditing: Offers comprehensive network audits, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
Network Discovery: Simplifies the process of identifying network components.
Alerting Modules: Provides real-time alerts and customizable notifications.
Configuration Backups: Automates backups, safeguarding configurations.
Remote Access: Streamlines network management from any location.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating Auvik Network Management?

Enhanced Network Visibility: Offers detailed insights into network operations.
Time Efficiency: Remote access and automated features save valuable time.
Proactive Issue Identification: Real-time monitoring aids in identifying issues quickly.
Integration Support: Works cohesively with other platforms, easing management.
Operational Efficiency: Automates management tasks for improved productivity.

In industries such as IT management and network administration, Auvik Network Management is predominantly utilized for overseeing and maintaining network infrastructures across multiple locations. It offers capabilities for monitoring network topology, receiving alerts on device downtimes, and managing performance metrics. Users employ its features for proactive issue identification, and auditing, helping maintain oversight of networks containing switches, routers, and firewalls. Auvik provides remote access and automated backups, which contribute to enhanced operational efficiency and network visibility.

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Sysdig Monitor is a comprehensive cloud-native performance monitoring and troubleshooting tool designed to optimize container and microservices environments through advanced data capture and analysis technology.

Ideal for professionals seeking robust visibility in containerized environments, Sysdig Monitor leverages service intelligence to simplify collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data across dynamic infrastructures. It enhances monitoring accuracy by integrating seamlessly with container platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift, providing actionable insights that help teams identify and address performance bottlenecks quickly.

What are the essential features of Sysdig Monitor?

Real-Time Visibility: Offers continuous insights into system performance across different layers.
Kubernetes Monitoring: Dedicated features to streamline Kubernetes performance analyses.
Prometheus Metrics: Supports Prometheus to manage and visualize metrics seamlessly.
Custom Dashboards: Allows tailored dashboards for specific monitoring needs.

Which benefits or ROI should be expected?

Improved Troubleshooting Efficiency: Reduces time spent solving performance issues.
Cost Management: Optimizes resource allocation to prevent overspending.
Enhanced Collaboration: Strengthens team cooperation through shared insights.

Sysdig Monitor is adaptable across industries including finance, healthcare, and retail. In finance, it supports regulatory compliance by maintaining data integrity. Healthcare uses it to ensure system reliability for critical patient data applications. Retail benefits from its capacity to handle seasonal traffic spikes effectively.

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SAP Concur, Goldman Sachs, Worldpay by FIS, Cisco, Experian, Home Office, Societe Generale, Sunrun. More here: https://sysdig.com/customers/

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