InfoVista VistaInsight vs Kentik comparison

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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

89th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

29th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentik is 1.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Kentik	1.8%
InfoVista VistaInsight	0.4%
Other	97.8%

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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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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

"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

"The product is excellent."

"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

"We're pretty happy with the API functionality. It's web, and it's very simple to set up queries. It has served us well and you don't need to be an expert on the API or the product to set these things up."

"I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it."

"We haven't seen anything else that comes even close to Kentik's real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, and we've demo'ed everything under the sun."

"This product is easily the best network monitor that I’ve ever seen or heard about."

"We have been extremely happy with the features; they were exactly what we were after."

"It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics."

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

"Technical support is second to none."

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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 presentation of the features can be improved."

"However, the license is expensive."

"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."

"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."

"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. 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."

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

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

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

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

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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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Financial Services Firm

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Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

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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

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.

Infovista

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

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