Opsview vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

ITRS and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ITRS is ranked #37 with an average rating of 8.3, while Plixer is ranked #53 with an average rating of 8.0. ITRS holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Plixer’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Opsview and Plixer Scrutinizer compete in network monitoring and analysis. Plixer Scrutinizer appears to have the upper hand due to its detailed network traffic analytics capabilities, despite Opsview’s favorable pricing.

Features: Opsview offers automation capabilities, comprehensive alerting, and scalability. Plixer Scrutinizer provides in-depth traffic analysis, advanced reporting, and forensic capabilities, emphasizing detailed analytical insights.

Room for Improvement: Opsview could improve on its data analysis depth, integration options, and interface flexibility. Plixer Scrutinizer might enhance its deployment simplicity, pricing transparency, and broad monitoring capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Opsview features a streamlined deployment process with accessible customer service. Plixer Scrutinizer, though requiring more expertise during deployment, offers comprehensive support for intricate analysis features.

Pricing and ROI: Opsview is cost-effective with a quicker return on investment, suited for budget-conscious users. Plixer Scrutinizer's higher initial costs are balanced by the value of its advanced features and long-term analytics benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Opsview

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

37th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (15th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (35th), Cloud Monitoring Software (26th)

Plixer Scrutinizer

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

53rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Opsview is 0.4%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Jeff Cronstrom

Senior Director, DNS Engineering & Network Operations at CloudfloorDNS

A highly stable solution that can be used to monitor system availability

The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup. You can clone that service, and it allows you to add new services quickly. You can bring up new servers, and you can easily add them. Also, there's an API to be able to add services as well. We don't use the API. We mostly use the cloning function because it stores everything in a back-end database. The underlying monitoring platform for our version is Nagios. That's where we upgraded from Nagios to Opsview.

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Ronald Jansen

Owner/President at Abraxax

Reporting is extensive, flexible, and can be custom-made in just a short time

In terms of additional features I'd like to see in the next release of Plixer Scrutinizer, I can't think of any because you can do some integration with other monitoring tools that are not strong in NetFlow or don't have NetFlow at all. There are also some integration possibilities in the product, plus there are alerts, too. Plixer Scrutinizer is a pretty complete product. 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.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We use this solution for internal monitoring our own cloud platform because we are a public cloud provider. We also use it for monitoring purposes on behalf of our clients."

"What was very compelling about OpsView was that we could dial out the noise and have meaningful and actionable alerts."

"It's a good solution. It covers all aspects of monitoring purposes."

"The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup."

"I am satisfied with the overall product since it works well…It is a stable solution."

"Visualization of the network traffic is the most valuable feature. It allows you to drill into information quite quickly."

"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."

"It helps us determine what is going on with our Internet and who is hogging it all up. If we get a real high throughput or a throughput that's going over and getting dropped fairly quickly, we can tell who (or what device) is consuming that traffic."

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

"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."

"We have had many requests to understand in the network which devices are connected to others. Most people don't have this information or are able to establish a map of data flow everywhere around the network. Scrutinizer can really help with this. We are using it to understand who is talking to what, how, and which protocols can help us to improve security and analyze flow."

"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."

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

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Cons

"Customized reporting can be improved."

"In a future release, we would like to have Observ for AI. Any AI and intelligence it can add to the monitoring is obviously beneficial. We would also like to have automated callouts."

"Maybe the graphical representation can be improved. It can be enhanced for better visualization. It could be a little better. And the graph center can be improved."

"Some of the graphics on Opsview could be improved."

"Pricing and a few certain aspects in the solution needs to be improved."

"They're working on the security areas, so it can provide more insight. What they have is still pretty much IP-concentric. If they were to make it IP and URL, they'd be a little bit ahead on that."

"I wish the reporting side was easier to work with, but it does a decent job. I also wish the reporting side was a little more intuitive or they offered more reporting examples."

"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."

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

"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."

"From what I understand it is that the solution is not very scalable in a high volume traffic environment with a large number of flows."

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is not cheap. I think that the pricing is a little bit on the high side."

"I would rate pricing a seven out of ten, where ten is the highest price."

"The solution is priced similarly to other tools offering similar features."

"Our entire solution, amortized over five years, is in the vicinity of $40,000 to $50,000 a year."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Currently, the license for Plixer Scrutinizer is subscription-based and at a yearly fee. The price would depend on the amount of traffic you pull in. For example, there are several blocks from a 10K flow, a 40K flow, and a 100K flow, and based on the number of devices that you receive the flows from, that's the license, and it is not a per-interface pricing model, so that is a very strong, very competitive pricing feature of Plixer Scrutinizer. Licensing for the product is also not based on the number of storage, compared to some competing products that are priced based on the amount of storage you need, particularly based on the retention and the amount of data. Plixer Scrutinizer licensing is based on the device, and it's more in the direction of $10,000 because, with just $1,000, you don't have anything."

"The license is per device. We have 50 devices."

"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."

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Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Opsview Monitor?

The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup.

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What needs improvement with Opsview Monitor?

Some of the graphics on Opsview could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Opsview Monitor?

Opsview is used to monitor system availability, whether its service is running on disk usage, CPU usage, etc.

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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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Also Known As

Opsview Monitor, Opsview Enterprise

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Overview

Opsview is a modern and scalable SaaS or on-premise monitoring solution that gives your organization full visibility into on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure. It delivers simplified management and a single pane of glass view of your entire IT operations. The solution provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Additionally, it can be used either in agent-based or agentless configurations.

You can use Opsview to monitor:

 Operating systems

 Networks

 Cloud

 VMs

 Containers

 Databases

 Applications

Opsview Features

Opsview comes with an array of features, including:

 AutoMonitor express scan: This feature makes it easy for you to keep up with your

changing IT infrastructure by helping you find new Windows, VMware, and Azure hosts.

 Business service monitoring: This enables you to see the health of all your end-to-end

business services in real time and in one place.

 Autodiscovery: With this feature you can automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment, which helps you quickly populate information into Opsview for monitoring.

 Network analyzer: Opsview provides you with a complete picture of your company's

network infrastructure via its Network Topology, Flow Collector, & NetAudit modules.

 Customizable dashboards: Opsview dashboards give you a view of all your monitoring

metrics in interactive dashboards that are easy to create and maintain.

 Customizable reports: With Opsview, reports connect to the Opsview Data Warehouse and present historical data collected by Opsview. The solution’s out-of-the-box reports include performance, SLA, and events.

 Disaster recovery: Opsview gives your organization peace of mind with its disaster

recovery by restoring your Opsview system if needed.

 Event handlers: Opsview event handlers allow for automation and proactive monitoring so that your users are not impacted.

 Events viewer: The events viewer feature helps you easily see all the important events in your Opsview system.

 High availability server: Opsview has a high availability monitor that offers protection to ensure that you never lose IT infrastructure visibility.

 Multitenancy: Multitenancy makes it possible for your MSP to give control of Opsview to your end users. It also allows you to create new hosts and roles as well as users while using a secure, private environment.

 Log analytics: This feature allows you to improve logging visibility, reporting, correlation, and alerting.

 SNMP traps: With SNMP traps, you can reduce your network and server load and provide faster service to your customers.

Opsview Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Opsview. Some of the biggest advantages the

solution offers include:

 Extensible: Opsview can be used in agent-based or agentless configurations. In addition, it can sit above multiple monitoring tools, aggregating information into a single pane of glass.

 Scalable: Opsview is very scalable. It can easily scale beyond 10,000 monitored devices via its distributed model that spreads monitoring across many monitoring engines. Its databases may be located on dedicated servers to further distribute load.

 Functional overview: Opsview monitors your IT infrastructure, network and applications, and displays alerts. It is also designed to generate notifications and integrate with your other service management tools.

 Flexible: Opsview has a flexible web framework, allowing dashboards and monitoring views to be easily customized and extended.

 Integration: Easily integrate Opsview Cloud with your current operational tools, including help desks, service management, automation and notification tools

 Automation: Automate the configuration and operation of your IT monitoring system using Opsview’s intrinsic automation capabilities. Allowing you to spend more time on projects that drive your business.

Opsview Cloud

Opsview Cloud gives your business 24/7 Saas Monitoring for your entire IT estate. Benefits include:

 Reducing your infrastructure costs

 Realigning your resources to focus on business value IT projects

 Ensuring you have 24/7 monitoring

 Utilizing Opsview experts to provide monitoring best practices/tips and tricks

ITRS

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.

Plixer

Sample Customers

IBM, BT, Cisco, Sky, UPS, Capgemini, Visolit, Fujitsu Services UK, UKCloud, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cornell University, Incomm

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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