InfoVista VistaInsight vs Kentik comparison

Infovista and Kentik are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Infovista is ranked #96, while Kentik is ranked #33 with an average rating of 9.0. Infovista holds a 0.1% mindshare in NMS, compared to Kentik’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Infovista users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Kentik users who would recommend it.

InfoVista VistaInsight

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

InfoVista VistaInsight and Kentik compete in network performance monitoring and analytics. InfoVista VistaInsight leads in pricing and support, while Kentik has superior features for those prioritizing functionality.

Features: InfoVista VistaInsight provides comprehensive network performance metrics, visualization tools, and emphasizes scalability and flexibility for complex environments. Kentik offers advanced real-time analytics, anomaly detection, and extensive traffic insights, providing a broader range of network monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement: InfoVista VistaInsight could enhance its real-time analytics capabilities, improve anomaly detection, and increase the depth of its traffic insights. Kentik can work on better pricing options, expanding deployment flexibility beyond cloud-native, and improving its offering integration with third-party tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: InfoVista VistaInsight offers versatile deployment options supporting both on-premises and cloud, coupled with strong customer support. Kentik provides a cloud-native deployment with simplified onboarding processes and proactive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: InfoVista VistaInsight presents competitive pricing and a clear ROI with its scalable solutions. Kentik is priced higher but offsets this with extensive analytics features that promise enhanced ROI through better network insights.

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Categories and Ranking

InfoVista VistaInsight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

96th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

33rd

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentik is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Youssef El Hayek

OSS Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

A powerful service that is very stable and scalable

It's a very powerful service, you have to use your training and understand how to work it. After that, it's very easy to collect and to use. It may be hard to use for the administrators. It's like a Ferrari, if you're a very good driver you'll go to 300 but you have to know how to drive it. If you have a Ferrari but you don't know how to use it, it's not going to be good. Also, it's very important to understand what the customer needs to decide on what kind of products you are going to use, and what product and what solution to implement. I would rate the solution nine out of 10.

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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

"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

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

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

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

"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."

"I really love the Data Explorer. I use it all the time to go in and craft exactly what I need to see. I'm able to then take that story and explain it to the executives. I've done that a couple of times and it is helpful."

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

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

"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."

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Cons

"The presentation of the features can be improved. It can be more user-friendly for the visual part of the portal and to allow the customer to be able to use."

"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..."

"I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license is expensive."

"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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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

InfoVista VistaInsight is a pre-built service assurance solution that provides the benefits of off-the-shelf software, while enabling rapid configuration and tailoring to meet the unique needs of communications service providers (CSPs) and sophisticated large enterprises. Built upon InfoVista's scale-as-you-grow, distributed collection and reporting, organizations are empowered to monitor the performance of their data center infrastructure, network layers and domains, and physical and virtual components. VistaInsight delivers usage and forecasting to engineering, enables service exception alerts for operations, and manages and demonstrates SLAs for both internal stakeholders and end customers all through a web-based portal.

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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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