We performed a comparison between Versa Director and WhatsUp Gold 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."
"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."
"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."
"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."
"It is stable."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The documentation is very good."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It requires some simplification."
"Versa could be more AI-oriented."
"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."
"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"The interface needs some work."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
Versa Director is ranked 56th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Versa Director is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Versa Director writes "User-friendly and simpler than its competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Versa Director is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Versa Director vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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