ManageEngine OpManager vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

ManageEngine and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ManageEngine is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while Plixer is ranked #52 with an average rating of 8.0. ManageEngine holds a 1.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Plixer’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of ManageEngine users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.

ManageEngine OpManager

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92% willing to recommend

ManageEngine OpManager

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ManageEngine OpManager and Plixer Scrutinizer compete in the network monitoring solutions category. OpManager is favored for its ease of deployment and integration, while Scrutinizer stands out for in-depth traffic analysis and reporting.

Features: ManageEngine OpManager includes extensive network monitoring, switch configuration reporting, and router configuration backups. It provides real-time alerting and capacity management. Plixer Scrutinizer offers data context enrichment, network traffic insights, and flow visibility, making it excellent for traffic analysis, advanced analytics, and reporting.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest that ManageEngine OpManager needs better stability with upgrades, a more intuitive setup process, and improved backup solutions. Enhancing AI features and support responsiveness would also be beneficial. Plixer Scrutinizer could improve its update process, simplify graphical data presentation, and make third-party tool integration less complex. Both need better scalability and configuration simplification.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both ManageEngine OpManager and Plixer Scrutinizer require on-premises deployment, with OpManager offering public cloud options. OpManager receives mixed feedback on customer support, with noted issues in technical support quality. Plixer Scrutinizer provides clear support but lacks 24/7 availability, impacting deployment efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: ManageEngine OpManager's pricing is competitive, noted for reducing operational overhead despite some users finding it pricey. Its ROI benefits from cost-effectiveness and available discounts. Plixer Scrutinizer uses a device license pricing model, with additional modules impacting costs. Its ROI is favorable due to ease in uptime and quick alert responses, though larger deployments may find it costly.

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Categories and Ranking

ManageEngine OpManager

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Plixer Scrutinizer

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

52nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ManageEngine OpManager is 1.5%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 0.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ManageEngine OpManager	1.5%
Plixer Scrutinizer	0.4%
Other	98.1%

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Featured Reviews

Charles A

Deputy Director at Access Healthcare Services Pvt Ltd

Reporting features improve operational efficiency while weekend support needs enhancement

Support is moderate and needs improvement, especially during weekends when technicians perform upgrades. During weekends, they need to provide more support to ensure a smooth transition. There is a call for ManageEngine OpManager to scale better in automation and AI functionality. Although the product stability is good, support enhancement is necessary to enable better planning for upgrades and maintenance activities.

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Ira Mulyanti

Sales Director at ARGA SOLUSI

An affordable product with great integration capabilities

Plixer Core Platform is a valuable feature and a good software. Plixer Scrutinizer uses NetFlow analysis to monitor whatever is there in a network. Price-wise, Plixer Scrutinizer is not an expensive product. Basically, Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that can integrate with any other brand or product in the market, so it is not an area of concern.

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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

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring alerts. The administrators are immediately notified and can do the required action immediately. This is the feature we value and use the most."

"ManageEngine OpManager is user-friendly and easy to use. Additionally, useful for basic monitoring."

"The alerting feature has improved our organization. We can create multiple alerts and refine them to how we need to use them."

"The uptime and monitoring are valuable to us because we need to monitor the uptime of our services, the memory, and the CPUs."

"Defining thresholds and other alerting criteria is fairly simple and would not require a lot of training. This is very useful if you are managing a large environment."

"We don't have to keep an eye on it; it has a good automation option, which keeps us informed. It gives very less false positives. Overall, a really great product."

"Our customers are seeing a clear return on investment with ManageEngine OpManager, which is why they continue using it and maintain the solution for a long time."

"We find the networking aspect of this solution to be the most valuable."

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"One of the most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer is the reporting, particularly how easy it is to drill down into the reports. Another valuable feature of the solution is its overall visibility. It's great. I also liked Plixer Scrutinizer in terms of deployment time and that it's very simple to set up. Once you get the appliance set up and connected, the customer starts to see results immediately, versus other solutions where that could take a while."

"One feature I found most valuable in Plixer Scrutinizer is the very extensive reporting. Reporting is very flexible, though sometimes you need a little bit of support from Plixer Scrutinizer to create custom-made reporting in a very short time. Reporting is a very strong feature of the product."

"Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features."

"The reporting and generating troubleshooting reports would be the best feature; our host-to-host conversation reporting."

"There are other tools out there that will do what Scrutinizer does. But what I have found with Scrutinizer is that it does it very quickly. I've taken 25 million individual data fragments from the different sensors, and it has graphed that and mapped it and presented a picture within 30 seconds. It has a very efficient database algorithm that I am really impressed with."

"It shows us the saturation of the network of devices. It gives us a clear view of the flows in the network to understand, for instance, planning upgrades in the network to get an idea of what's going on the network on traffic flows. It gives us insight, for instance, on what's going on on our VPN Client. There are a lot of things where it provides very helpful information. It also gives us our security reports with quite detailed information on what's going on in the network, and whether there are data exfiltrations and so on."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the ability to track what a device is doing and to go back historically. It is also able to go down to, and identify, very low levels of traffic."

"The most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer are its ease of use, accessibility, and UI."

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Cons

"The data provided by the tool is not accurate."

"There should be an option to get mobile notifications or SMS mirror notifications for critical issues. That way, when we don't have access to email, we can still receive notifications via our phones."

"The solution is a bit difficult to configure. There are quite a number of configurations and plugins that you must handle early in the process."

"You cannot resolve 100 percent of the issues yourself. You would need to reach out to the support. It needs to be cheaper."

"This product is little bit slow sometimes. It may be that we need to change the configuration to improve performance."

"If you have a ton of devices, it might slow down a bit."

"ManageEngine OpManager can improve by having better updates for critical issues."

"Some of our customers have been asking that OpManager have a feature to monitor the operating system, however, I tell them that Endpoint Central is doing that. You can buy endpoints and then OpManager, and they integrate between them, and everything is okay."

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"For updating the Scrutinizer platform, when we have the actual data, it never happens in one day. Every time we have the data, we are obliged to install a new server in order to integrate the old data, and every time it has a problem. Most of the time, we were obliged to scrap all the data because we couldn't transfer it to the new server. So, it would be very good if they could improve this part."

"It would be useful if there was a way to back up the configuration information. E.g., if you wanted to deploy a new instance or disaster recovery, you could quite easily deploy and restore the config, as opposed to having to restore all the NetFlow data. If there was just a button that said "backup config information", that would be good."

"Data retention needs improvement. Data retention is a thing where we are looking for a better way to collect flow data for a longer time to do forensic research on security incidents. By default, data retention is quite low. We need detailed data in safe storage for a longer time, e.g., for a couple of months. An improvement would be a way to export data into a secure long-term storage."

"The visual acuity of how it presents data can sometimes be confusing. It takes a bit for people to spin up how to look at the graphs."

"There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point."

"Knowing that they're coming out with a new user interface, that is an area where there is room for improvement. There are so many variables. They should limit the variables in the user interface and create some classes, like "simple," "novice," and "expert" to narrow down the variables within it."

"In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required."

"We couldn't get it set up properly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is highly affordable"

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"The price of ManageEngine OpManager is reasonable. We have an annual license and the cost comes from how many devices are being monitored. There is not anything extra cost for maintenance and support."

"The solution's pricing is very low compared to other products."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis and the pricing is on the cheaper side."

"ManageEngine OpManager is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"It is reasonably priced."

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"We just renewed. The pricing is 5,000 euro per year. This is the final price. All tax (20 percent) is included."

"There is a recurring maintenance fee after the initial purchase or if we want the license upgrade."

"The licensing cost for Plixer Scrutinizer is in the middle. It's not the cheapest, but it's not the most expensive. Its licensing model is based on how many exporters, how many devices export information to the system. Plixer Scrutinizer has different modules you could add such as the security module which would cost extra."

"We have increased the license over time. We have added more licenses as the network has grown."

"There are no extra costs. It's about $8,000 a year. The bang for the buck (cost) is definitely a plus."

"We pay our one-off cost for the licenses, per device, in blocks of 50. And then we pay an annual maintenance fee of about $15,000 Australian, which is, at this point in time, about $9,000 US, for those 250 devices. The upfront costs for the 250-license use, were about $50,000 Australian, which is about $32,000 US."

"I rate Plixer Scrutinizer's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price or affordable, and ten is high price or expensive."

"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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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	27

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ManageEngine OpManager?

The product provides intensive reports.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine OpManager?

The cost is quite high-end for ManageEngine OpManager, especially in our very price-sensitive market here in Sri Lanka.

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What needs improvement with ManageEngine OpManager?

The main drawback is there is less documentation available, both public documentation and partner-available documentation. The learning materials are very limited, and there is also a limitation of...

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What do you like most about Plixer Scrutinizer?

Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plixer Scrutinizer?

I rate Plixer Scrutinizer's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price or affordable, and ten is high price or expensive.

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What needs improvement with Plixer Scrutinizer?

I don't have deep enough knowledge to comment on what requires improvements in Plixer Scrutinizer. In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required.

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Overview

ManageEngine OpManager is a network, server, and virtualization monitoring software that helps SMEs, large enterprises and service providers manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to setup a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation.

ManageEngine

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

Bonita, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Galaxy, Fiserv Credit Union Division, Universitas 21 Global, ERP Suites LLC

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

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