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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Entuity and Kentik are competing network management platforms, each offering distinct strengths. Kentik is generally favored for its comprehensive functionality and robust analytics features.

Features: Entuity provides efficient network monitoring, fault management, and intuitive dashboards. Kentik provides real-time traffic analysis, advanced anomaly detection, and a broader range of integrations.

Room for Improvement: Entuity could enhance its analytics capabilities, expand its integration options, and provide more advanced anomaly detection. Kentik could simplify its deployment process, streamline its interface for easier navigation, and offer more flexible pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Entuity is straightforward to deploy with proactive customer support, facilitating a smoother onboarding. Kentik, while more complex to deploy, offers extensive documentation and responsive service to offset setup challenges.

Pricing and ROI: Entuity has a lower setup cost, appealing to budget-conscious buyers, with satisfactory ROI from effective network management. Kentik’s higher initial investment is balanced by superior data insights and potential for enhanced operational efficiencies, leading to long-term ROI advantages.

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Entuity vs. Kentik

April 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Entuity

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

38th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

32nd

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Entuity is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentik is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ahmed Salman

Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company

A good solution for network monitoring and support management, but there is no centralized database

There is no centralized database. It is an issue if you use a local database and have multiple borders. However, if you have an external database, you can keep the same old data from an old border up to 100 borders. In addition, if we want to create an ABI or use an ABI to connect data, there is no competition when we ask for support. If we want to modify the calculation matrix or equation, we have to raise a professional service. Other competitors like Micro Focus, a network management system, have a new supportability matrix in the market every quarter.

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ADRIANA SALDARRIAGA TOBON

Sales Manager at IFX NEtworks

Client experience and cybersecurity have improved with an easy setup

The solution is valuable for client experience, especially in the financial sector. The most important feature is cybersecurity. The pricing is good, but the functionality is the most important aspect for clients. The solution is easy to deploy and requires only one person to set up, making it easy and quick. Overall, the ease of use and the fact that it meets client expectations are major positives.

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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

"Entuity's best feature is its ability to monitor a large number of devices."

"The most valuable feature of Entuity is network mapping and information. When clicking on a particular location it can automatically survey the connectivity diagram for us. We can arrange this icon in any kind of formats, such as ring or mesh. The networking mapping can show the components and interconnectivity with the help of IP addresses and NetFlow."

"I particularly like the theme and the dashboard that they have brought in this version. In the previous version, there was only a simple screen. There wasn't any dashboard. It was a simple view, but now, they have brought in a dashboard that gives the fields for the ops as well. They can get the data they want to see in a single place."

"The best thing about Entuity is that it's easy to use. It's user-friendly. It's intuitive and easy to customize as per your needs."

"One of the most valuable features of Entuity is the user interface."

"This is a product that is easy to deploy and maintain with a positive end-user experience."

"The initial setup of Entuity is easy and the full process took approximately 30 minutes."

"We find the SurePath component of this solution to be very valuable, as it gives us the path to whatever we are configuring."

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"The most valuable features have been anything around traffic engineering: being able to determine the source or destination of a surge of traffic, whether it's DDoS-related, or a customer just happened to have a sudden uptick in traffic. Being able to tell where that's coming from or where it's going to enables us to do things based on that."

"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."

"I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it."

"Monitoring operational efficiency is easy."

"I really love the Data Explorer. I use it all the time to go in and craft exactly what I need to see. I'm able to then take that story and explain it to the executives. I've done that a couple of times and it is helpful."

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

"Overall, the ease of use and the fact that it meets client expectations are major positives."

"The most valuable feature is being able to pull traffic patterns; to and from destinations. We're able to understand where our traffic is going, our top talkers from an AS set, as well as where our traffic's coming from."

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Cons

"Entuity can improve the fetching of device configuration. The solution uses scripts and I could not understand them or find any recourses on the internet to learn about the language that is used in the script. It could be more user-friendly and the device configuration management could be enhanced."

"The configuration of the logging could be improved because if someone deleted any note or inventory, or some change to the inventory, we are not able to identify which user or which administrator modifies these details. For example, there should be read-only locks on maps to prevent their deletion. This way people can only read and cannot delete that particular map."

"We would like the backup element of this solution to be improved as, at present, it is very limited and does not have much scope for customization."

"It should support IPAM or IP Address Management. When it comes to the network, IP Address Management is a feature for which we have to use a different solution. When we are managing networks, if IPAM also becomes a part of this, we do not have to look for a separate solution."

"Entuity currently has APIs, but they are not straightforward. They are not flexible if an external system wants to communicate with Entuity or create an integration that is not available out of the box. Its APIs can be flexible so that they can be utilized for external integrations that are not available out of the box."

"A typical user might want to see even more depth to the standard reporting and ease of integration."

"If we want to modify the calculation matrix or equation, we have to raise a professional service."

"Entuity can expand its coverage on monitoring VoIP solutions a little bit more."

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

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

"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."

"In recent months, I've noticed that while the industry is trending towards AI, Kentik has room for improvement in this area."

"The product could strive for more improvements to become closer to perfect."

"Sometimes, the tool has complications, so we must deal with the additional support from the tool's end."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have 400 licenses and we are only using 150 licenses."

"Entuity is not an expensive solution."

"Entuity's licensing is very highly-priced."

"It varies and depends on the quantity. It's worth the cost."

"It can be comparatively expensive but that is because it is comprehensive."

"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."

"The tool is cheaply priced."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

12%

University

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Entuity?

Event management and the geographical Google API-based network topology are the most valuable features of Entuity.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Entuity?

We work with other solutions. We have a very good relationship with Entuity Commercial. You can negotiate discounts and provide better proposals to our customers. The pricing is very competitive. T...

What needs improvement with Entuity?

Entuity could integrate with other solutions and collect more information from IoT devices.

What do you like most about Kentik?

It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kentik?

The pricing is good and aligns with the market target.

What needs improvement with Kentik?

The product could strive for more improvements to become closer to perfect.

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Overview

Entuity network management software continually monitors network bandwidth, network error rate and network congestion, which are all factors that impact overall network throughput. Events can be raised in response to abnormal traffic to allow remedial action before users are impacted. The Entuity network monitor continually evaluates network latency and network jitter to calculate MOS and ICPIF scores. Events can be raised when these scores are unacceptable for business application, voice and video performance. Key Features include: Root Cause Analysis, Event Management, Flow Monitoring & Analysis, Application Path Monitoring and Network Performance Monitoring.

Park Place Technologies

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.

Sample Customers

Tait Communications, Vattenfall, Discovery, University of Minnesota, Pernod Ricard, Electric Car

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