Flowmon and NETSCOUT vSTREAM are network monitoring and analytics products. Flowmon has the upper hand in pricing and support, offering a cost-effective solution with satisfactory customer service. NETSCOUT vSTREAM excels with a comprehensive feature set, which justifies its higher price.
Features: Flowmon provides advanced network monitoring capabilities, focusing on flow-based network performance, traffic analysis, and anomaly detection. NETSCOUT vSTREAM offers extensive application performance management, in-depth packet analysis, and visibility across both physical and virtual environments, with broader application monitoring capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Flowmon could enhance its application performance management, improve its packet analysis depth, and increase its visibility in virtual environments. NETSCOUT vSTREAM might focus on simplifying its deployment process, reducing setup complexity, and improving cost efficiency for organizations with tighter budgets.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Flowmon offers a simple and quick setup with competent customer service. NETSCOUT vSTREAM requires complex integration due to advanced features, supported by proficient customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Flowmon is recognized for lower setup costs and faster ROI, appealing to cost-conscious organizations. NETSCOUT vSTREAM is more expensive but provides high value with its comprehensive features and long-term performance measurement capacity.
Flowmon is a professional tool for effective network troubleshooting, performance monitoring, capacity planning, encrypted traffic analysis and cloud monitoring. Instead of just the red/green infrastructure status, it helps NetOps teams to understand user experience while keeping the amount of data noise and analytical work to a minimum. Flowmon is a part of the Kemp product portfolio.
The vSTREAM virtual appliance complements existing Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI)-based instrumentation to provide the same level of visibility within virtualized and cloud infrastructures that is already possible in physical environments. The vSTREAM virtual appliance is ideal for monitoring service-critical traffic running within virtualized or cloud infrastructures, either locally on a host or as an aggregation point for multiple hosts. With complete visibility across physical, virtual and cloud networks, the vSTREAM virtual appliance presents real-time views of end-to-end call trace data and network-wide KPIs, to protect the reliability and availability of networks and application services.
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