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Featured Review
Massimiliano Faraon
Consolidates other solutions all in one place where you can maintain and monitor them
We are using Centreon for our customers. During the COVID-19 emergency, we were able to do all the tasks required from our customers because you... Read more →
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Helps us understand what's going on in our netowrk. Client VPN and DMZ
It has become an essential and helpful tool for in my daily work. If we didn't have access to the tool, we would have more difficulty getting a... Read more →
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  • "If you need basic monitoring without dashboards, just monitoring, the plugins are very useful and really cheap. If you want a more complete solution with dashboards and reporting, the EMS solution is great and it is not that much more expensive. It's a good value. Really good."
  • "Centreon is always available to develop new plugins when needed. The most important thing is that their maintenance account yearly subscription fee includes the fact that they will maintain the new plugins that you requested them to deliver."
  • "The pricing works out well for us, given our environment and where we are."
  • "Centreon is better than Nagios XI in regards to cost and support response times, when you have a problem. If you have a problem, it costs money to contact the Nagios XI support."
  • "Their licensing model is really easy. You have one license and you have access to all the features, compared to other tools where you have to purchase add-ons."
  • "It is perfect and very cheap if you are a little company or startup. After that, it is quite expensive for a big company."
  • "I would like to see improvement in the licensing model. You can purchase X number of licenses, up to 1,000 devices or 1,000 instances. Your next batch is 2,000. But what if you only need, say, 1,200? The model could be changed a little bit."

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  • "We recently bought a license upgrade, so we will integrate more exporters. We upgraded from a 25 exporter license to a 50 exporter license. Therefore, there will be more flows, and this will be an extension. I don't know when we will purchase a faster server, because the server that we have is quite new."
  • "It's about €10,000 a year for initial license and yearly maintenance costs. In addition, the hardware costs are about €10,000 once every five years."

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    What do you like most about Plixer Scrutinizer?
    Top Answer: 
    We didn't experience any bugs.
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    What needs improvement with Plixer Scrutinizer?
    Top Answer: 
    When you download Windows 10 and first log in, it says something like, "Welcome. We're setting up a few things, we'll be… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Plixer Scrutinizer?
    Top Answer: 
    We used this solution for MTA. I am responsible for the network; I would have been the only person using this solution.
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    Centreon
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    Overview
    The Centreon solution, based on a free to download Open Source Platform, monitors all critical IT Infrastructure and Applications with real-time dashboards, analytics and insightful alerts that prevent business-impacting downtimes. Since 2005, over 200,000 IT professionals from SMBs and Fortune 500 companies rely on Centreon to guarantee their organization operational performance.

    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.

    The Scrutinizer incident response system leverages network traffic analytics to provide active monitoring, visualization, and reporting of network and security incidents. The system quickly delivers the rich forensic data needed by IT professionals to support fast and efficient incident response.

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    Sample Customers
    Airbus, Bollore, BT, Canal Plus, Kuehne Nagel, Limagrain, LVMH, Oberthur Technologies, Orange, Darty, Addax Petroleum, Plastic Omnium, Auchan, Valeo, Saint Gobin, Clarins, Hugo Boss, JC Decaux, French Government (Defense, Justice, Environment, Agriculture), OptiComm, Thales, Zeiss.
    Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent. 
    Oxford Networks, Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, UltiSat, Wipro, West Aurora School District 129, SUNY Geneseo College, Bloomington Public Schools, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, Kitsap Credit Union, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Houston Texas, Carilion Clinic, Banner Health, IDEXX Laboratories, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, Goodwill Industries, Parmalat, Armstrong Coal Company, Flybe, James Walker
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Comms Service Provider27%
    Wholesaler/Distributor6%
    Government5%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider43%
    University14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Music Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider28%
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government5%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Government13%
    Insurance Company13%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Kentik is ranked 52nd in Network Monitoring Software while Plixer Scrutinizer is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 2 reviews. Kentik is rated 0.0, while Plixer Scrutinizer is rated 7.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Plixer Scrutinizer writes "Helps us understand what's going on in our netowrk. Client VPN and DMZ". Kentik is most compared with ThousandEyes, Arbor DDoS, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, whereas Plixer Scrutinizer is most compared with SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Darktrace, Cisco Stealthwatch, PRTG Network Monitor and ExtraHop Reveal(x).

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