Kentik vs StableNet comparison

Kentik and Infosim are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Kentik is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0, while Infosim is ranked #92. Kentik holds a 1.8% mindshare in NMS, compared to Infosim’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kentik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Infosim users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Kentik and StableNet compete in network monitoring. Pricing and customer feedback favor Kentik, while StableNet offers more comprehensive features that justify its investment.

Features: Kentik provides real-time network traffic analysis, enriched data visualization for detailed insights, and scalable monitoring. StableNet offers an integrated network and service management suite, automated network performance monitoring, and a holistic approach beneficial for larger-scale networks.

Room for Improvement: Kentik can expand its feature set for large-scale networks, improve integration with existing infrastructure, and enhance automation capabilities. StableNet could improve its customer service responsiveness, lower its initial cost, and simplify its deployment process to match the ease of competitors.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kentik features a cloud-based architecture for easy deployment, supported by strong customer service channels. StableNet integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure but lacks the responsive customer support of Kentik.

Pricing and ROI: Kentik offers competitive pricing with a focus on high ROI through scalability. StableNet, despite a higher initial cost, provides long-term value with its comprehensive capabilities, appealing to enterprises needing extensive network and service management.

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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)

StableNet

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

92nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

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 StableNet is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Kentik	1.8%
StableNet	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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ShahzadAziz

Director of Development/Project Manager at Enablers Private Limited

A highly scalable and stable solution that provides excellent features and can be integrated with any product

The support team is more into R&D. They're not focused on support. The vendor lets the partners provide support for the solution. Partners must have StableNet-certified engineers. Complex problems arise for complex installations. When a problem is deep, it takes a lot of time to resolve it. It goes to the R&D and development teams. They do solve it, but the time taken could be reduced.

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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

"In terms of the solution’s real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, I have not been able to find any other monitoring or netflow visualization tool that gives me the kind of information I get from Kentik. If I need to take a deep-dive into something that I see, it's really easy for me to do that. Whereas with most other things, I have to use five or six other tools to get that kind of data, with Kentik, I have it all in one place."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

More Kentik pros

"We can integrate any tool with StableNet."

"The solution is stable."

"The best features are the reporting, utilization, and network graph."

Cons

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

More Kentik cons

"The existing dashboard capability is there, but it is not user-friendly."

"The solution is expensive."

"The dashboard has a lot of room for improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 tool is cheaply priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software 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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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

In my opinion Infosim, StableNet Enterprise is the best as it is a third-generation highly automated network management system. It enables IT departments to unify the management requirements of the...

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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.

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StableNet provides Fault, Performance, Configuration, and Services Management on a single platform.
It is a vendor agnostic solution, built upon a single, consistent code base. The solution is easy to integrate and provides high performance while keeping low hardware requirements.

The unified network & services management approach has been proven with a large number of installations in key industry sectors like energy, finance, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and many more.

With this all-in-one NMS approach, Infosim revolutionizes the management of large heterogeneous network infrastructures.

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

Athenahealth, Barratt, Nocsult, Nucleus Connect, SCC

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