ClearSight Analyzer vs Kentik comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ClearSight Analyzer and Kentik compete in network analytics and performance monitoring. Kentik appears to have the upper hand due to its superior range of features and integration capabilities.

Features: ClearSight Analyzer offers intuitive packet analysis, real-time diagnostics, and quick troubleshooting, perfect for smaller-scale deployments. Kentik provides advanced network traffic insights, robust anomaly detection, and extensive integration capabilities, designed for detailed data granularity and scalable real-time analytics.

Room for Improvement: ClearSight Analyzer could improve its data granularity, scalable features, and integration capabilities. Kentik might enhance its ease of deployment for non-technical users, reduce upfront investment requirements, and streamline initial setup procedures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ClearSight Analyzer is praised for its straightforward deployment and responsive support, making for a quicker setup. Kentik's cloud-native architecture allows for flexibility across complex environments, with proactive and expert customer support, though it may require more technical input initially.

Pricing and ROI: ClearSight Analyzer generally has a lower upfront cost, offering quicker ROI for smaller operations, suitable for budget-constrained organizations. Kentik requires a higher investment but provides valuable returns through enhanced data analytics and scalability, desirable for enterprises needing deep data insights and superior network visibility.

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Categories and Ranking

ClearSight Analyzer

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

90th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

29th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ClearSight Analyzer is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentik is 1.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Kentik	1.8%
ClearSight Analyzer	0.4%
Other	97.8%

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DAVID-TAYLOR

Senior Network Engineer at Montgomery College

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I wouldn't want the interface to go towards the web because they did have a version that was inside of the TruView product. It was more web-based and, to me, the web-based applications lose the robustness of the intimacy of a true character interface. I liked that they were on that path and I hope that they stay on that path because it just looks like it's a better product. I would like to see a multi-user version where you can have a launch platform and, potentially, instead of buying six licenses you buy 12 seats or something like that. From a centralized platform, you could have multiple users using that particular product in a series of different ways. That's what I'd like to see, rather than having everybody running a standalone one on their own workstation.

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Shubham-Saxena

Network Engineer III at Fortanix

Integrating synthetic tests and network monitoring enhances traffic pattern visualization

The Kentik support team is good. If you want me to rate them on a scale, I would give them eight. I had a call with the Kentik support team for fifteen minutes, so I'm going to give them eight for now. The reason for giving them an eight is that they are good and address our issues. They have monthly calls and discuss the product roadmap with us, including what is needed and what is not. However, when we are working on some real issues with Kentik, I sometimes feel there's a delay due to the busyness of their teams. We faced some outages and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools, so that took a little time to resolve.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"This is the best protocol analyzer I've used and I've used some from WildPackets and quite a few other places."

"What ClearSight will do is it actually maps out the conversation for you."

"Honestly, it is one of those products that I would suggest to almost any network operator."

"In terms of the solution’s real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, I have not been able to find any other monitoring or netflow visualization tool that gives me the kind of information I get from Kentik. If I need to take a deep-dive into something that I see, it's really easy for me to do that. Whereas with most other things, I have to use five or six other tools to get that kind of data, with Kentik, I have it all in one place."

"We're also using Kentik to ingest metrics. It's a useful feature, and its response time, whenever we're pulling back the data, is higher than our on-prem solution."

"The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there."

"One of the valuable features is the intuitive nature of building out reports, and then triggering actions based on specific metrics from those reports. It has a really good UI and the ability to surface data through the reporting functions is pretty good. That's helped a lot in the security space."

"Kentik excels in telemetry within data centers and works well in multi-vendor environments."

"Kentik answers the flow question: what are my flows, where are they are going, and what can I do to better optimize my connectivity."

"Technical support is second to none."

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Cons

"I was upset when they sold the product to NETSCOUT."

"I would like to see a multi-user version where you can have a launch platform and, potentially, instead of buying six licenses you buy 12 seats or something like that."

"We had faced some issues during an outage and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools. It took time to resolve these issues, which is why I give them eight points."

"I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis."

"The only downside to Kentik, something that I don't like, is that it's great that it shows you where these anomalies lie, but it's not actionable. Kentik is valuable, don't get me wrong, but if it had an actionable piece to it..."

"I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that."

"I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important."

"There is room for improvement around the usability of the API. It's a hugely complex task to call it and you need a lot of backing to be able to do it. I should say, as someone who's not in networking, maybe it's easier for people who are in networking, but for me that one part is not very user-friendly."

"I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement."

"I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was pretty modest because you could get it in different ways. I think the six licenses, at that time, were about $1,000 each. But then again, I work for a school and educators tend to get discounts on things. So maybe it cost us about five or six hundred a copy."

"The tool is cheaply priced."

"We have an annual contract with Kentik that we renew each year for a set number of licenses. We also have some burstable licenses which we can spin up and spin down, and those are paid as they are used."

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kentik?

I would say Kentik's pricing is not cheap. From my perspective as part of the technical team, I would not categorize it as expensive, but I know it is not cheap.

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What needs improvement with Kentik?

There's always room for improvements and better relations when using any kind of product. We faced some issues with Kentik UI and alerting, which we asked them to fix, and they succeeded. They have...

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What is your primary use case for Kentik?

We are using Kentik mostly for synthetic tests, and from one last year, network monitoring as well. We are using it for inter DC BGP tests and server monitoring as well.

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Overview

Protocol analysis tool for application performance analysis and monitoring. Provides real-time problem identification and statistics.

NETSCOUT

Kentik's AIOps Network Traffic Intelligence platform unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence.

With a purpose-built big data engine delivered as public or private SaaS, Kentik captures a high-resolution view of actual network traffic data and enriches it with critical application and business data, so every network event or analysis can be tied to revenue & costs, customer & user experience, performance & risk.

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Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute

Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent.

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