Kentik vs NetFort LANGuardian comparison

Kentik and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Kentik is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0, while Rapid7 is ranked #97. Kentik holds a 1.8% mindshare in NMS, compared to Rapid7’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kentik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

Kentik

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NetFort LANGuardian and Kentik are competing in the network monitoring and security category. Kentik holds an advantage with its advanced analytics and scalability, while NetFort LANGuardian is favored for cost-effectiveness and support.

Features: NetFort LANGuardian provides detailed traffic analysis, comprehensive insights, and real-time user activity tracking. Kentik offers real-time anomaly detection, advanced analytics, and predictive insights.

Room for Improvement: NetFort LANGuardian could enhance its analytics capabilities, improve scalability, and add more advanced features. Kentik might benefit from simplifying its setup process, lowering upfront costs, and improving ease of use for smaller IT teams.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetFort LANGuardian is easy to deploy and popular among smaller IT teams, with strong support. Kentik's deployment is more complex, but it offers flexible options and robust customer support.

Pricing and ROI: NetFort LANGuardian's pricing appeals to smaller organizations with budget constraints, offering good ROI through affordability. Kentik presents higher upfront costs, justified by its comprehensive features for businesses needing deep analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

29th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

NetFort LANGuardian

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

97th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Kentik is 1.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetFort LANGuardian is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Kentik	1.8%
NetFort LANGuardian	0.3%
Other	97.9%

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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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it_user172854

Research Special Projects Lead at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Cost effective but when we originally purchased LANGuardian, some features needed further development.

The ability to detect and decipher torrent traffic for the purpose of identifying what some refer to as "copyright violators" Our CIO asked us to track down the source of undesired uploads, which trigger e-mails received by outside bodies regarding what they refer to as "copyright violations",…

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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

"Good NetFlow visualization and analysis tools are valuable to anybody who needs to understand the traffic that flows in and out the network."

"Before using the solution, we had to do all these manual tasks, such as running all these queries manually, and building our tech cost-report used to be a two or two-and-a-half-week effort, and using Kentik, and the automation that it provides us, we've brought that down to a day or two, which is a massive time savings."

"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."

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

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

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

"Honestly, it is one of those products that I would suggest to almost any network operator."

"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."

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"Our CIO asked us to track down the source of undesired uploads, which trigger e-mails received by outside bodies regarding what they refer to as "copyright violations", and Languardian was the most efficient and effective tool for the job."

"If you are looking for a solid solution that can be easily deployed then I'd recommend considering Netfort solutions."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"Sometimes it's difficult to order the dimensions correctly when trying to make Sankey flow diagrams."

"I would like to see more granular user and security rights."

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

"I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement."

"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."

"It also detects anomalies proactively, but the same is not so true when it comes to real network problems, since they tend to just happen."

More Kentik cons

"It takes a long time to load results. I think it would be great if they fix the slowness issue in the next release."

"Sure, at the time we bought the product, the GUI and graphs/reports/pie charts etc ... were not fully developed."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Healthcare Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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Questions from the Community

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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LANGuardian

Overview

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.

Kentik

NetFort LANGuardian is deep packet inspection software for investigating, monitoring, and reporting on network and user activity. It is a passive network traffic analyzer, not inline and cannot have an impact on network performance. Gain layer 7 visibility without the need for expensive appliances.

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Sample Customers

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

City of Armadale, NCG Group, King Faisal Hospital

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