Kentik vs NIKSUN NetVCR comparison

Kentik and NIKSUN are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Kentik is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0, while NIKSUN is ranked #98. Kentik holds a 1.8% mindshare in NMS, compared to NIKSUN’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kentik users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Kentik and NIKSUN NetVCR compete in network monitoring and analytics. Kentik has the advantage in pricing and customer support, while NIKSUN NetVCR has an edge with its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Kentik provides real-time traffic analysis, alerting capabilities, and integration with third-party applications. NIKSUN NetVCR includes advanced forensic analysis, deep packet inspection, and detailed network investigations.

Room for Improvement: Kentik could improve its deep packet inspection capabilities, expand its forensic analysis features, and enhance detailed security analysis. NIKSUN NetVCR might focus on simplifying its deployment process, improving integration with third-party applications, and enhancing user-friendly features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kentik is known for easy deployment and proactive customer service, adaptable to various network environments. NIKSUN NetVCR requires more complex deployment with a significant configuration but is supported by knowledgeable service teams.

Pricing and ROI: Kentik offers a scalable pricing model with rapid ROI due to cost-effective deployment. NIKSUN NetVCR, despite higher initial costs, provides value through detailed analytics, promising a high ROI for security-centric deployments.

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Review summaries and opinions

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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)

NIKSUN NetVCR

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

98th

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

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 NIKSUN NetVCR 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%
NIKSUN NetVCR	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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Himanshu Shah

Partner at Opticom Data Products

High performance, quick packet monitoring, and helpful support

The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately. In a feature release of the solution they should add features related to automation and remediation. Automation would help increase level of security the solution provides.

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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

"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."

"Monitoring operational efficiency is easy."

"Kentik is worth the money to have as a tool."

"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, I would give Kentik nine out of ten stars."

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

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

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

More Kentik pros

"The unique selling point of NIKSUN is its ability to scale and its reporting capabilities. NIKSUN captures the packets at a very high speed, from one GB to 160 Gbps also. It offers report granularity in nanoseconds."

"The most valuable features of NIKSUN NetVCR are its performance and forensic capabilities. Additionally, the information that the solution provides is highly detailed and useful. When dealing with network traffic packets can be sent at a high speed causing some security issues, but this solution is able to rapidly monitor the packets providing security."

"NIKSUN provides you with the why, what, when and where type of answers to all your network problems."

Cons

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

"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."

"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."

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

"In recent months, I've noticed that while the industry is trending towards AI, Kentik has room for improvement in this area."

"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."

"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."

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

More Kentik cons

"The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately."

"NIKSUN is a passive solution. It provides you with you data, alerts, reports and the root cause of issues. However, it requires a person to make use of this functionality. If an event is happening and nobody attends to it, the effects of the event could be severe."

"NIKSUN is a passive solution. It provides you with you data, alerts, reports and the root cause of issues, however, it requires a person to make use of this functionality."

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."

"The price of the solution is high. There is an annual license costs."

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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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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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NetVCR

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.

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Powered by groundbreaking technologies, NIKSUN NetVCR redefines the way we monitor networks. It provides seamless service and application performance analytics for the right visibility into your traditional, virtual or hybrid environments. The NetVCR suite gives you unmatched insight while still dramatically reducing power consumption by 60% and requiring 80% less rack space.

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

Visa, FedEx, CitiGroup, IDC

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