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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

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Categories and Ranking

Entuity

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

72nd

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

31st

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Entuity is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentik is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Kentik	1.2%
Entuity	0.7%
Other	98.1%

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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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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 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."

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"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."

"We're pretty happy with the API functionality. It's web, and it's very simple to set up queries. It has served us well and you don't need to be an expert on the API or the product to set these things up."

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

"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."

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

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

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

"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."

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Cons

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

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

"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 could improve by having more integration because now network management is not a standalone solution. You have to integrate it with your network, applications, and everything else. We have to collect that information from those solutions or relevant managers. Additionally, the SLA dashboard should be improved."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

More Entuity cons

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

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

"They're moving more in a direction where they are saying, "Hey, here's information that you may be interested in or may a need," before the question has to explicitly be asked. Continuing to move in that direction would be a good thing."

"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'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."

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

"We asked for a way, regarding the potential networks that exist, to hook Kentik up with external tools like peering DBs to correlate things together and see what we can do... This is all in the [next] beta now."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Entuity is not an expensive solution."

"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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

University

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

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 is your primary use case for Entuity?

We use the solution to monitor all the network devices. They do some configuration policies, parts inventory, performance, and availability of the information they collect.

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.

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...

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

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.