GroundWork Monitor vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

GroundWork and Progress Software are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. GroundWork is ranked #104, while Progress Software is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.7. GroundWork holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to Progress Software’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GroundWork users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

GroundWork Monitor

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100% willing to recommend

WhatsUp Gold

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

GroundWork Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

104th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

76th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

50th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (21st)

WhatsUp Gold

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

24th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

19th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

21st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (26th), Server Monitoring (15th), Configuration Management (20th), Log Management (35th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of GroundWork Monitor is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhatsUp Gold is 2.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
WhatsUp Gold	2.3%
GroundWork Monitor	0.3%
Other	97.4%

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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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Erik Cheng

Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet

Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains

The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

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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."

"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the visibility it offers of everything in the network and infrastructure."

"The user interface is good enough."

"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."

"There is a flow monitor option, so we can trace the source IP, the destination IP, and top talker feature in this."

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."

"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."

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Cons

"Deploying an agent leaves much to be desired."

"The product is old and not updated."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive."

"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management."

"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."

"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers."

"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."

"This product should add other options for monitoring. It does not currently meet the broader needs of the banking industry in the version we have deployed."

"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"The tool's price is reasonable. WhatsUp Gold is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."

"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

"This is a well priced solution."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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What do you like most about WhatsUp Gold?

The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one l...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.

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Overview

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

GroundWork

Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

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Sample Customers

Swiss Life, JBFCS, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre

Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof

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