BlueCat Integrity vs Cygna Diamond IP Platform vs Infoblox IPAM comparison

BlueCat and Cygna Labs are both solutions in the IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools category. BlueCat is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while Cygna Labs is ranked #7. BlueCat holds a 15.4% mindshare in IT, compared to Cygna Labs’s 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of BlueCat users are willing to recommend the solution.

BlueCat Integrity

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96% willing to recommend

Cygna Diamond IP Platform

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0% willing to recommend

Infoblox IPAM

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94% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools category, the mindshare of BlueCat Integrity is 15.4%, up from 12.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cygna Diamond IP Platform is 4.8%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infoblox IPAM is 32.3%, down from 34.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sham Prabhakaran

Senior Network Engineer, DDI at a wireless company with 10,001+ employees

User-friendly interface, exceptional support, and enables a lot of time savings

The overall benefit of using BlueCat Integrity is that it allows access to servers and troubleshooting of servers, which is not offered by some of the other market products. When you use BlueCat Integrity, you learn more than VDI. You get hands-on experience with Linux. You get to learn more things when you are using BlueCat Integrity. They also offer exceptional customer service. BlueCat Integrity provides a single-pane-of-glass view of our IP address space. Within this single pane of glass, we can also have multiple views. I can create multiple subblocks and configure them, for example, country-wise. It drastically reduces human error, reducing it by 80% to 85%. BlueCat has helped our organization reduce downtime. We can monitor the online status of services with the help of SNMP. We can use all three SNMP variables, such as SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3. With the help of that, we can monitor server health. It has helped save a huge amount of time in the domain and record creation process. It saves about 90% of our time. BlueCat Integrity has relieved engineers from manual tasks, freeing up time for other projects. It relieves engineers in a huge way. It relieves the DDI engineers from touching the Linux bind servers or DB servers. Using BlueCat Integrity saves a huge amount of time. With that time, we can handle other projects. I use REST APIs. I create scripts, and we have our gateway, so we create our own gateway workflows. We use BlueCat automation to create around four to five thousand objects. It saves about two minutes per object.

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Ajmal Abbas

System Consultant DDI Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Useful for DNS/DHCP management but needs a better GUI

The initial setup is a little difficult. I haven't ever built any good environment as-is. However, I have tried to develop some labs for my testing; and found that it was really difficult for me to spin up. Setting up everything correctly is the one thing. The deployment itself can be done in half an hour. That said, this is not going to be just one appliance, this is going to be a distributed environment, like hundreds of appliances all together work as a single unit, and that's how the solution is provided. I haven't done any cold deployments. That said, for my testing, I could do it by myself in my lab. Otherwise, to be frank, I don't know how many people would be needed to do a deployment in a well-deployed organization, a running organization. If you have to implement the solution, you're definitely going to be doing it as a shared effort with network security and everyone else.

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Saurabh Manik Salunke

Senior Consultant at Capgemini

Works well, helps to avoid mistakes, and supports bulk entries

It is pretty scalable. On Infoblox IPAM, we have a total of five segments of slash 16. It is a vast network. Apart from that, there are multiple domains. I support French companies, and they have multiple domains. That DNS is also a part of Infoblox for which we need to do the entries. It is used on a daily basis in operations. If we face any issues, such as the IP is not reachable, the first thing we'll check is whether it is resolving or not. If we consider nslookup, it will also go to DNS. So, it is used daily.

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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

"The most significant advantage of BlueCat is its foundation on open-source software, specifically BIND and ISC DHCP."

"Since implementing BlueCat, we have experienced fewer problems, anomalies, and strange issues."

"This inherent stability, derived from its Linux-based architecture, provides a well-established and reliable platform."

"It is easy to use. It has an understandable GUI interface. Its deployment is relatively easy."

"As a defense contractor, we must meet many compliance standards regarding logging, configuration, and administrative access. BlueCat is one of the few products that combines all the compliance components in a secure, reliable solution."

"The most valuable feature of BlueCat Integrity is decentralized management, which enables real-time visibility and control over the entire IP address space, DNS, and DHCP from a single console."

"BlueCat Integrity's scalability and user-friendliness are the most valuable features."

"The most valuable features are scalability and cloud infrastructure."

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"The DNS/DHCP side of the product is quite useful."

"IPAM's best features include the view of how many soft nets are filled from your container and the grid master."

"One of the most valuable features of this solution has been DNS security. It has a solid foundation for building DNS, DHCP, and Advanced Threat Prevention."

"For me, the best feature of Infoblox IPAM is that you can use BloxOne DDI which means you can manage everything from the cloud and have security policies as well. I also like that Infoblox IPAM is plug-and-play."

"It helps to avoid manual mistakes and we can add the proper DNS if we add an Alias name to that. We are aware of the CNAME we need to use. By using Infoblox as a DNS, we can add the A and PTR records, which is helpful for the lookup as well as the reverse lookup."

"The features we found the most valuable were being able to handle DHCP scopes and handing out DHCP leases. We weren't doing some of the things that we can do, such as DNS query rate limiting. Our usage was pretty standard. We wanted to be able to track our IP addresses to create DNS entries and then create DHCP and manage DHCP scopes. We used the standard features the most."

"Infoblox IPAM provides visibility into what's on your network and helps fingerprint devices based on the OS, manufacturer, and other things along those lines."

"Infoblox gives us the flexibility to manage our internal networks and publish the data outside of the network on the internet. It's quite fluid to do it."

"The most important feature of Infoblox IPAM for my clients is its reliability."

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Cons

"The solution is too granular and sometimes complex to configure. We do not always need so many details. Simpler configurations with fewer details would be beneficial."

"I would like the GUI to be similar to AWS and Azure, where we can simply click on an item to expand it and see all the information on one page, without having to click to the next page."

"Some areas need improvement, especially the issue with stale entries in the BlueCat tenancy. I have heard that it is already fixed in BlueCat Integrity 10. I have not used that yet."

"While knowledge is a factor, both technical support and training need a significant overhaul."

"When you replace an appliance, there are many configuration steps, so adding zero-touch provisioning would be helpful. It can be quite tedious and time-consuming to replace a device if it fails or deploy a new one."

"The DNS and DHCP servers for guests are separated from the main organization. A lot of times, it doesn't allow you to choose a default IP space. When I log in to the GUI, it doesn't default to where I want it to be. So far, I haven't been able to find out how to change or specify that so that it defaults to a particular space, such as the main org. If I'm looking for the IP space for guests, I need to toggle and go to the guest site. Most of the time, I want the IP space for the org to be my main space, but it doesn't give me the ability to do that, or I haven't been able to find that over the last two years."

"The UI is outdated and needs a modern refresh."

"The IPAM dashboard could be enhanced to display more information and provide data analysis features."

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"It's an older product. The GUI and everything is a little outdated."

"From an IPAM standpoint, DHCP is an area that needs to be improved."

"The scope of our use of this solution is limited to the DDI IPAM solution for Infoblox. This solution could be improved by offering multiple integrations with IPAM which could already exist but we aren't aware of them."

"Infoblox IPAM could improve some of the features. The market is demanding for some features that are not there, but there is always a reason why it's not there. At the moment, the solution is rather complete for what it's used for. It can always extend to solve some other issues that are linked to it, but the solution itself is complete."

"CLI needs to be user-friendly. There should be an option to commit changes."

"How you track IPs within a subnet and how all of that works was not intuitive to me. If I compare it to VitalQIP, I create a subnet, and it's a slash 24 size. It's very easy. I look, and here are my 254 IPs. I can then see if I have assigned a static, do I have a DHCP scope, and what's the name of the device. That's all there in front of me. The thing that I found frustrating with Infoblox was that it was not very intuitive."

"Their biggest problem is with the corporate side of the house as far as getting a support response or getting a sales team response isn't always as efficient as it should be and as it used to be."

"The marketing of the solution could improve to give customers the awareness of the benefits."

"The solution is not easy to use; the GUI and CLI are challenging to use, limiting end-user capability. We can't use Linux terminal features with Infoblox, as it struggles to detect and troubleshoot problems. We generally use troubleshooting tools like tcpdump in our network security area and we can use that in Infoblox with limited features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"BlueCat Integrity meets our expectations and aligns with our budget forecast."

"We paid around $5,000 per year for SolarWinds, and now we pay around $20,000 per year for BlueCat, but we have less downtime and fewer issues with DNS and DHCP."

"They're competitive. The way they run their model is good. Could it stand some tweaking? Sure. There are some items there. One of the things I looked at in the recent past was their container solutions. You have to pay for licensing to use their containerized platform, but the licensing doesn't include the container licensing itself. I'd love to be able to have one big package per se."

"Overall, I would say that it is priced fairly, though perhaps a bit on the high side."

"Overall, it's a decent price for the product. There are other vendors that have support models and costs that are, sometimes, double what Bluecat charges."

"While BlueCat falls on the expensive side, its exceptional customer service and consistent quality justify the cost."

"BlueCat Integrity's pricing is reasonable within the market."

"I am not sure about the exact pricing, but I believe their cost is lower compared to Infoblox."

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"Infoblox IPAM is a licensed product, and my company pays for it yearly. It depends on the licensing model you choose because right now, the solution can also be subscription-based, specifically the cloud version, but the traditional licensing model for it is one that's paid yearly. The cost would depend on the organization. I know how much my company pays for Infoblox IPAM, but I won't disclose that information. If your company has $10,000,000 or $20,000,000, for example, and you need stability, then I'd say the solution is worth it. If your company is a startup, then the solution may not be worth it, but it would still depend on the ability of your company because Infoblox IPAM is one of the costlier solutions in the market."

"The price of the solution is reasonable compared to competitors, such as Akamai."

"We purchase yearly licenses, and I don't know the exact price as I'm not involved in the finance or sales departments. Infoblox is one of the more expensive products in the DDI environment, so I would say that for organizations looking to combine DNS, DSTP, and IP management with security features, the solution is worth it. However, for organizations only looking for an IP management tool, for example, many more affordable options are available."

"The cost depends on the scale at which we're deploying it. It's an annual subscription that ranges between $1,000 and $2,000."

"Infoblox IPAM is a very expensive solution and it should improve. The solution is subscription-based, and the payments can be monthly or yearly. There are additional costs for more features, and the exact cost depends on the features you're using."

"They were expensive. They were known to be expensive. In general, they used to at least try to encourage you to upgrade to hardware every three years. Infoblox had a reputation as being one of the better solutions but also one of the more expensive solutions, whereas VitalQ was definitely a much more affordable solution. With Infoblox, anytime you replace hardware, there would also be the cost of the hardware upgrade. So, besides the software licensing fee, there were also hardware maintenance and hardware upgrade fees. I would rate it a 3 out of 10 in terms of pricing."

"I rate Infoblox IPAM’s pricing a seven out of ten, since their price is up there."

"The licensing cost for Infoblox IPAM depends on your usage and also depends on your term plans, for example, you may want it for three months, six months, or only for seven days. I don't remember the exact licensing cost, but it depends on your organization's structure and how many networks you are going to need."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

20%

Government

10%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

14%

Government

11%

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Healthcare Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BlueCat Adaptive DNS?

This inherent stability, derived from its Linux-based architecture, provides a well-established and reliable platform.

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What needs improvement with BlueCat Adaptive DNS?

They can improve their support for the CDNV application, which is Cloud Discovery and Visibility. I had to chase Blue...

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What is your primary use case for BlueCat Adaptive DNS?

We use it for getting an IPAM solution in AWS, which is our first use case. The second use case is we also use it for...

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What do you like most about Infoblox IPAM?

We can specify the availability of subnets when we create them.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infoblox IPAM?

I rate Infoblox IPAM’s pricing a seven out of ten, since their price is up there. Infoblox IPAM is not a cheap produc...

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What needs improvement with Infoblox IPAM?

CLI needs to be user-friendly. There should be an option to commit changes.

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Comparisons

Infoblox DDI vs BlueCat Integrity

Compared 42% of the time

Micetro vs BlueCat Integrity

Compared 7% of the time

SolarWinds IPAM vs BlueCat Integrity

Compared 6% of the time

NetBox.dev vs BlueCat Integrity

Compared 6% of the time

Azure DNS vs BlueCat Integrity

Compared 2% of the time

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SolarWinds IPAM vs Cygna Diamond IP Platform

Compared 11% of the time

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NetBox.dev vs Infoblox IPAM

Compared 24% of the time

SolarWinds IPAM vs Infoblox IPAM

Compared 24% of the time

Micetro vs Infoblox IPAM

Compared 13% of the time

Device42 vs Infoblox IPAM

Compared 3% of the time

ManageEngine OpUtils vs Infoblox IPAM

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

BlueCat Adaptive DNS, BlueCat Automation Manager, BlueCat DDI

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Overview

BlueCat Integrity is a comprehensive DNS security solution that provides visibility and control over all DNS traffic on your network. It offers real-time threat detection and response, as well as policy enforcement to ensure compliance with security standards. With its advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, Integrity enables you to identify and mitigate security risks before they can cause damage. It also integrates with other security tools to provide a complete security ecosystem. Whether you're a small business or a large enterprise, BlueCat Integrity can help you protect your network from DNS-based attacks and ensure the integrity of your DNS infrastructure.

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Cygna Diamond IP offers comprehensive IP address management tailored for business needs. Its advanced capabilities streamline and secure network infrastructures efficiently, providing robust solutions for managing IP spaces.

As a trusted tool, Cygna Diamond IP addresses market demands with comprehensive IP address management through streamlined operations. Its versatile features allow businesses to maintain optimal IP address allocation, tracking, and configuration, ensuring smooth and efficient network operations. Cygna Diamond IP enables users to easily manage changes, monitor activity, and enforce policies across their networks.

What are the key features of Cygna Diamond IP?

IP Address Management: Streamlines IP allocation and tracking, ensuring efficient utilization of resources.
Network Automation: Automates repetitive network tasks, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors.
Security and Compliance: Provides robust tools for policy enforcement and compliance auditing, enhancing security measures.
Scalability: Adapts to growing network demands, supporting seamless scalability as business needs evolve.

What benefits should users consider from reviews?

Efficiency Gains: Users report significant time savings through automation, leading to increased productivity.
Security Enhancements: Improves security posture through effective policy enforcement and monitoring capabilities.
Cost Effectiveness: Reduces operational costs by optimizing IP address management processes and minimizing manual tasks.
Improved Compliance: User feedback highlights strengthened compliance with industry standards and audit readiness.

Cygna Diamond IP is implemented across industries like telecommunications, financial services, and healthcare, where managing vast networks and ensuring security are critical. Its adaptability to specific industry requirements makes it valuable for maintaining efficient and secure network operations.

Cygna Labs

With Infoblox IPAM (IP address management) and DHCP, you can automate and centralize all aspects of IP address provisioning and DHCP server management in conjunction with DNS. Infoblox’s integrated platform enables you to confidently handle your most challenging IPAM and DHCP requirements in every type of network environment, data center and hybrid cloud environment. Infoblox IPAM enables your teams to increase network agility and responsiveness, so you can boost the efficiency of core network operations. Thanks to clear visibility into network operations, you can automatically detect and quarantine rogue devices, lower security risks and prevent outages.

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Sample Customers

Computer Sciences Corporation

Constant Contact Inc., Rogers Communications

Geisinger Health System, Allied Irish Banks, Lewisville Independent School District, University of Liverpool, Newell Rubbermaid, AH Belo, Arizona State University, Baptist Healthcare System, Kronos

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