GroundWork Monitor vs Kentik comparison

GroundWork and Kentik are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. GroundWork is ranked #103, while Kentik is ranked #25 with an average rating of 9.0. GroundWork holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Kentik’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GroundWork users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Kentik users who would recommend it.

GroundWork Monitor

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100% willing to recommend

Kentik

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

GroundWork Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

103rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (76th), IT Operations Analytics (22nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (49th)

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

25th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of GroundWork Monitor is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentik is 1.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Kentik	1.9%
GroundWork Monitor	0.4%
Other	97.7%

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it_user186582

Sr PC/Client Server Analyst II at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

It's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write. When we need to, the threshold is easy to change.

It's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write. When we need to, the threshold is easy to change It would be nice to have a centralized client-settings management. At the moment, the client settings have to be changed individually. I've used it since 2011. The deployment of the new server…

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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write."

"Kentik is worth the money to have as a tool."

"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."

"Collecting that data and having those metrics first-hand, in real-time, allows us to make an educated decision, versus an uneducated guess."

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

"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."

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

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

"Having the API access allows us to do a great deal of automation around a lot of our reporting and management tools."

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Cons

"Deploying an agent leaves much to be desired."

"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."

"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..."

"We faced some outages and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools, so that took a little time to resolve."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Version 4 of the platform is good and going in the right direction."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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

Construction Company

30%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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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

Open source IT infrastructure monitoring system that collects performance data for systems, applications, and security.

GroundWork

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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Sample Customers

Swiss Life, JBFCS, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre

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

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