We performed a comparison between NIKSUN NetVCR and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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."
"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 feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the different monitoring probes available."
"It is easy when it comes to dependencies of devices, so if your router goes down, the three or four switches behind it will automatically be paused so that you don't get multiple alerts."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around."
"From a network point of view, we can see the state of the network, as well as bandwidth usage and downtime."
"The sensors and probes are great, nice and lightweight, they don't take up too many resources on the system. We just deploy them out and they start reporting instantly."
"It helps the entire organization become digitally enabled."
"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"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."
"The thing that we do struggle with a bit is in the historic data. If I want look over 30 days, because it averages out onto one graph, you can't zoom in and drill down information."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by adding prevention and detection features."
"I would like to see them take their graphing tools and convert them into a collector so that we can point telemetry to them"
"The technical support could respond a little bit quicker."
"The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it."
"The product could be improved by being cross-platform friendly."
"I have an issue with DFS, distributed file services... there isn't one by default. Taking into account the difference between DFS and DFSR as well would be great."
"PRTG's documentation could be improved."
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NIKSUN NetVCR is ranked 100th in Network Monitoring Software with 2 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. NIKSUN NetVCR is rated 0.0, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NIKSUN NetVCR writes "High performance, quick packet monitoring, and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". NIKSUN NetVCR is most compared with , whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager. See our NIKSUN NetVCR vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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