IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor vs NETSCOUT nGeniusONE comparison

IDERA and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. IDERA is ranked #97, while NETSCOUT is ranked #29 with an average rating of 8.7. IDERA holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IDERA users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor compete in IT infrastructure management. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE has an edge due to its advanced analytics and broad visibility, whereas IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor maintains strength with comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Features: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides in-depth traffic analysis, application monitoring, and network performance management with a focus on troubleshooting. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor offers server monitoring, capacity planning, and customizable dashboards, giving precise infrastructure control.

Room for Improvement: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE could enhance user interface simplicity, speed up initial setup, and improve cost efficiency for smaller enterprises. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor might expand analytics depth, integrate advanced troubleshooting tools, and improve reporting functionalities for more competitive analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE follows a traditional deployment model with strong enterprise support, providing reliability for large-scale networks. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor offers a user-friendly deployment and rapid setup, with support suitable for diverse business needs.

Pricing and ROI: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE involves higher initial setup costs but promises substantial ROI through its deep analytics and performance insights. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor presents a cost-effective setup with significant ROI attributed to efficient monitoring and management options without exact pricing details disclosed.

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Categories and Ranking

IDERA Uptime Infrastructure...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

97th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (70th)

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

29th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.2%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.2%
IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor	0.4%
Other	98.4%

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Nafiu Garba

Special Assistant to the Governor ICT COO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It offers different licensing types that allow you to extend the services to clients; it lets you look into device performance and optimization and helps apply best practices

What I like best about IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is that it offers different licensing types. Hence, it allows my organization to extend the services to clients and not just use the solution within the organization. My organization can leverage IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to learn more about how clients perform because the solution lets you monitor and optimize devices and apply best practices.

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EdwardShim

General Manager at MOCOMSYS

Offers detailed network monitoring but requires improvement in deployment complexity and pricing

The price is really high, making it difficult for many financial companies to purchase immediately; it will take time for them to afford any budget for the purchase. The traffic data correlation feature's effectiveness with performance issues for clients remains uncertain as there are questions that need to be addressed through engineers regarding how many customers are actually using it. Regarding pricing and value for money, while the solution has the potential to save time and money for clients in the long term, monitoring solutions for performance management or network monitoring do not cause immediate damage to a company. It could lead to damage over time, but financial and management teams typically cannot see the immediate crisis. This is why many big companies Samsung and Hyundai try to build their own monitoring solutions using open-source tools and their own engineers, though it has not been successful.

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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

"My organization can leverage IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to learn more about how clients perform because the solution lets you monitor and optimize devices and apply best practices."

"Network faults are easily and quickly identified through dashboards and drill down."

"The most valuable features are visibility, real-time, on-demand."

"Valuable features include data threat detection, network analytics, and overall bandwidth monitoring."

"We've saved a lot of time in triaging. We have found root cause identities on packet captures and have been able to feed that information back to a specific vendor, because a lot of our technology is emerging. So, we're able to give that feedback to our vendors and have them solve the problems that they need to fix, and they have the evidence to do so."

"With the Vprobes, we quickly identified issues on the application servers, which we normally couldn't, where it usually would be a full circle round between our NOC and server people."

"It is the ability to collect data and analyze it, especially key performance indicators. This is before a customer would call to the service center to complain that they have had bad coverage or a dropped call."

"From the standpoint of VoLTE and related things, it's providing visibility into the network and how it operates."

"The fact that it's able to capture and store packets from the wires is very useful for troubleshooting with our vendors, when issues do come up. It's valuable that we have that overall data for them."

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Cons

"What I want to improve in IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is the community aspect, where IDERA would provide customers with updates on functionalities, what comes next, what IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor upgrades would be released, etc. I also want the sustainability of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to improve."

"In previous versions, we used to have an icon on the dashboard when the situation analysis would present an alert. It would be nice if that would be made available on the dashboard again. Something that could be customizable to only illuminate on certain applications."

"The initial deployment is tedious and requires a lot of build, deployment and configuration time. Experience is key to a successful deployment."

"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a complex product since it deals in areas like network packet brokers and packet analysis, making the tool complicated for end users."

"I would like more in-depth convergence between all the applications, especially when I look for information through a data mine."

"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE's pricing is higher compared to the competitors. It is more than 15-18 percent of competitor costs. It also needs to add AI features."

"We would like better end-to-end data flows. This is something that my users always complain about, as they don't know what the data flows are on the network. We would like to know every point along the line."

"Our biggest area of concern right now, supporting the applications, is that while NETSCOUT does a good job of monitoring the network and the applications, we need more visibility into system health and performance monitoring."

"We would like more encryption of customer data, because we have a very security conscious company. We have a lot of regulation coming in which requires us to make customer data private."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm based in Nigeria, and the conversion rate affects the pricing for IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, but globally, pricing is reasonable. I'm rating pricing for the solution seven on a scale of one to ten."

"It is very expensive, but it's well worth the money."

"Make sure you get the low down on your licensing and understand the licensing requirements before making a purchase, especially when it comes to an upgrade. Make sure that it suits your needs before you commit to it. For example, we purchased ATA at version 6.2.1. At that time, the licensing covered everything we need. NETSCOUT comes out with 6.2.2, stating that in order to upgrade, you had to purchase CyberStream licensing. Now that requires some additional funding from both a capital investment and a maintenance cost. That's something that should have been said, "Well, if you want these additional features, you will need to purchase these CyberStreams." Otherwise, we should be allowed to continue on the basic operations as it is now through the newer releases without being stuck."

"The price is only for acquisition; it's not a licence."

"Their pricing is very competitive with other solutions... But what I like about NETSCOUT's licensing is that it's shared across all their platforms. They don't create a new licensing scheme for every one of their products. So for nGeniusONE, you buy a certain license level, and it works on all of their products."

"I rate the price of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a four out of five."

"This solution has saved us more than $50,000 a month and freed up 30 percent of our bandwidth."

"Like any company, we always want better pricing. The pricing is okay, but it's not a cheap solution. When you want to deploy it across an enterprise as large as ours, you go into seven figures. It's not a cheap solution to get out there."

"The scalability becomes very expensive quickly."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	37

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I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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What do you like most about NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Regarding its high price, I give NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a seven.

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Also Known As

IDERA UIM, uptime software up.time

NETSCOUT nGenius, nGeniusONE

Overview

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor helps IT administrators to unify performance monitoring and optimization of IT infrastructure. Unlike its competition, it provides monitoring of a broad range of platforms and applications, ability to set service-level agreements, and support of both agent and agentless monitoring.

IDERA

The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network.

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Sample Customers

TeleComputing; Manitoba Hydro; Blevins Inc.; City of Malmö

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