Kentik vs Netrounds comparison

Kentik and Juniper are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Kentik is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0, while Juniper is ranked #96. Kentik holds a 1.8% mindshare in NMS, compared to Juniper’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kentik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Juniper users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Netrounds and Kentik compete in the network performance management category. Kentik has an advantage with its advanced analytics capabilities, making it suitable for data-intensive operations, while Netrounds offers competitive pricing and strong customer support.

Features: Netrounds offers automated service assurance, comprehensive testing tools, and robust monitoring capabilities. Kentik provides advanced data visualization, network flow analysis, and real-time analytics, offering deeper network insights.

Room for Improvement: Netrounds could enhance its data visualization features, integration with third-party platforms, and expand its analytics capabilities. Kentik could improve the complexity of its deployment process, reduce pricing to appeal to more budget-conscious businesses, and enhance customer service response times.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Netrounds offers a seamless deployment process with efficient customer support, simplifying management. Kentik's deployment is slightly more complex due to its advanced features, but its customer service strives to support users through the setup.

Pricing and ROI: Netrounds has a lower initial setup cost, providing solid ROI for cost-effective solutions. Kentik, at a higher price point, provides substantial ROI through extensive features and superior analytics, beneficial for organizations needing detailed traffic insights.

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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)

Netrounds

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

96th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Diagnostics (6th)

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 Netrounds is 0.4%, 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%
Netrounds	0.4%
Other	97.8%

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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_user738366

Head of Network Operations at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Fast and easy notification of problems on the network

Network quality monitoring of multicast TV channels and other network monitorings. This product gives us a good historical overview over the network and quick alarms for problems Fast and easy notification of problems on the network. The web GUI Grouping of jobs Making your own dashboards…

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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

"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."

"Collecting that data and having those metrics first-hand, in real-time, allows us to make an educated decision, versus an uneducated guess."

"The most valuable feature is being able to pull traffic patterns; to and from destinations. We're able to understand where our traffic is going, our top talkers from an AS set, as well as where our traffic's coming from."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

More Kentik pros

"Network quality monitoring of multicast TV channels and other network monitorings."

"The live packet capture feature enables quicker troubleshooting and better network monitoring."

Cons

"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."

"There is a large difference between BGP and normal nodes. I don't think this plays out to the best for the customer or Kentik."

"We faced some outages and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools, so that took a little time to resolve."

"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."

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

"Perhaps a better explanation would be to see how tagging is captured and a method of comparing my tagged interfaces on Kentik’s side."

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

More Kentik cons

"The web interface is ok, but I would like to see if it was possible to group jobs better and to create our own dashboards."

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

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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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

Netrounds is a programmable test and service assurance solution using software-based and traffic-generating probes, easily used and delivered from the cloud as a SaaS solution or deployed on-premise in NFV environments.

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Sample Customers

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

Telenor, Sappa, Clas Ohlson, Netnordic, Kabelnoord, Lunet

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