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Continuum Command
ConnectWise
Don’t settle when it comes to managing your clients’ IT infrastructure. Exceed their expectations with Continuum Command, a ConnectWise solution, our MSP RMM software that provides proactive tools and NOC services—regardless of device environment. With the number of new vulnerabilities rising each year, smart patching procedures have never been more important. We automatically test and deploy patches when they are viable and restrict patches that are harmful. Get better protection for clients while you spend less time managing endpoints and more time growing your business. It’s tough to locate, afford, and retain quality talent. In fact, 81% of IT leaders say it’s hard to find the recruits they need. Add Continuum Assist, a ConnectWise solution, NOC services and get the expertise and problem resolution you need to become the advisor your clients demand—without adding headcount.
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Atera
Atera
Atera is a cloud based all-in-one remote monitoring & management (RMM) platform for MSPs & IT pros. Atera includes everything you need to solve your clients toughest IT problems in one, centralized location. Atera's fixed cost pricing model helps IT businesses of all sizes grow with no extra costs. Fixed Cost with unlimited devices, it's that simple. Start your 30-day free trial today.
Starting Price: $79.00/month/user -
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Auvik
Auvik Networks
Auvik's cloud-based network management software gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. You get complete network visibility and control. Real-time network mapping & inventory means you'll always know exactly whats where, even as your users move. Automated config backup & restore on network devices means you'll mitigate network risk with no manual effort. And deep network traffic insights is a game changer.
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SolarWinds N-central
SolarWinds MSP
Join the thousands of MSPs and IT professionals who use SolarWinds N-central to remotely monitor and manage devices and complex networks. Built with security in mind, N-central provides the visibility and efficiency you need to scale. With the time you save, you can invest more in your business. N-central can help you: 1) Proactively monitor everything on your customer networks – not just servers and workstations – and troubleshoot quickly 2) Stay on top of threats with features like MFA, antivirus, integrated Endpoint Detection and Response, data backup, disk encryption, email protection, and password management 3) Automate routine tasks using Rules and Filters to customize policies by customer, site, or device type to get the precision and control you want
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7SIGNAL
7SIGNAL
For organizations that rely on mission critical Wi-Fi to conduct business, 7SIGNAL is a cloud-based Wireless Network Monitoring (WNM) platform that continuously tests the wireless network for performance issues – maximizing network uptime, device connectivity and network ROI. Unlike other providers, who monitor the network from the inside-out at the infrastructure level, 7SIGNAL operates on the networks edge, monitoring the “air� and capturing the user experience on the client device. Modules Sapphire Eye is a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi sensor developed and patented by 7SIGNAL. Sapphire Eye hardware sensors are installed on-site and are uniquely designed to measure wireless network service quality remotely using cloud-based software. Mobile Eye is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application developed and patented by 7SIGNAL. Mobile Eye is installed on the end user’s wireless device and empowers organizations to continuously monitor the wireless network from the end point.
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Domotz Pro
Domotz
Domotz is the premier Remote Network Monitoring and Management platform for IoT. We offer powerful network management software for MSP's, Integrators, Security Professionals, and Business Owners. Domotz enables the complete solution to cost-effectively manage and monitor your customers’ networks with plug and play setup, a friendly UX, and a comprehensive feature set, accessible from any desktop browser or mobile device.
Starting Price: $19 per month -
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Netumo
AIRO Software
Netumo is a 24×7 website up-time monitor with integration domain and SSL certificate expiry notification to manage all monitoring from one location. As soon as a website is down or a domain/SSL certificate is about to expire Netumo will inform you via SMS, Email, twitter, Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Starting Price: $1.75/month -
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PRTG Network Monitor
Paessler
PRTG Network Monitor is an all-inclusive monitoring software solution developed by Paessler. Equipped with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with a cutting-edge monitoring engine, PRTG Network Monitor optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs). The solution is packed specialized monitoring features that include flexible alerting, cluster failover solution, distributed monitoring, in-depth reporting, maps and dashboards, and more.
Starting Price: € 1300.00/one-time -
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Site24x7
ManageEngine
Site24x7 offers unified cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations within small to large organizations. The solution monitors the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices. In-depth monitoring capabilities enable DevOps teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructure, including private and public clouds. End-user experience monitoring is done from more than 100 locations across the world and various wireless carriers.
Starting Price: $9.00/month -
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EventSentry
NETIKUS.NET ltd
Hybrid SIEM solution combining real-time (event) log monitoring with comprehensive system health & network monitoring provides users with a complete picture of their servers and endpoints. The included security event log normalization & correlation engine with descriptive email alerts provides additional context and presents cryptic Windows security events in easy to understand reports that offer insight beyond what is available from raw events. EventSentry's NetFlow component visualizes network traffic, can detect malicious activity and offers insight into bandwith usage. Keeping track of Active Directory changes is easy with EventSentry's ADMonitor component that records all changes to AD & Group Policy objects and provides a complete user inventory to help identify obsolete accounts. Various integrations & multi-tenancy available.
Starting Price: $85.00/one-time -
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ConnectWise Automate
ConnectWise
Solve IT problems at the speed of business with ConnectWise Automate. A robust remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, ConnectWise Automate helps boost the effectiveness of IT teams. It offers teams the ability to discover all devices and users that need to be proactively monitored, remove delivery roadblocks, and support more endpoints without adding headaches or head count.
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NinjaRMM
NinjaRMM, LLC
If you're looking to support your clients and manage IT more efficiently, turn to NinjaRMM. The world's first security centric remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, NinjaRMM enables IT professionals to monitor and manage the entire IT stack with full automation all within a single pane of glass. The platform features search and connect through TeamViewer, antivirus integration, real-time alerts, managed patching, automation, software inventory, and reporting.
Starting Price: $3.00/month -
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eG Enterprise
eG Innovations
IT performance monitoring is not about monitoring CPU, memory and network resources any more. eG Enterprise makes user experience the centerpiece of your IT monitoring and management strategy. With eG Enterprise, you can measure the digital experience of your users, get deep visibility into the performance the entire application delivery stack — from code to user experience, and data center to cloud — from a single pane of glass, correlate performance across domains and pinpoint the root-cause of problems proactively. Machine learning and analytics capabilities embedded in eG Enterprise enable IT teams make intelligent decisions regarding right-sizing, optimization and planning for future growth. The result: happy users, enhanced productivity, improved IT efficiency and tangible business ROI. eG Enterprise is available for installation on-premise and as a SaaS solution. Start a free trial today.
Starting Price: $1,000 per month -
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SolarWinds RMM
SolarWinds
SolarWinds® RMM® is a cloud-based IT solution that makes it easy for MSPs to deliver valuable technology services within hours, not weeks or months. Clear graphical dashboards place alerts front and center so you can focus on what needs you most. Built-in remote access and security features help you support and protect from day one. And when you’re ready, grow your business with additional security layers and add-ons services to expand your offering. SolarWinds RMM features include remote access, network path visualization, automated monitoring and maintenance, prescriptive data analytics, data-breach risk intelligence, and more. SolarWinds RMM is also available for download as Android and iOS mobile apps to allow users to manage issues anywhere.
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Multapplied SD-WAN
Multapplied Networks
White-label SD-WAN platform for MSP, ISP, Telecoms and others seeking to deliver reliable, easy-to-use, software-defined, managed network services with a centralized orchestrator, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 support, packet-based link load balancing for true session continuity with no-dropped calls and wireless/LTE support as well as high-performance (>90%) circuit bonding technology. Provided to you in a unique combination of technical capabilities and business/economic model, build your business by hosting, managing, deploying, and operating your own SD-WAN platform. After your initial setup and training fees, you pay only for the sites you deploy - there's no charge for core node licenses, scale as quickly as you need! Multapplied SD-WAN gives you a platform to deliver on your Service Level Agreements. Eliminate connectivity issues that drive complaints, outages, lost time and costs associated with reporting and delivering on SLA.
Starting Price: $90/site/month -
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SysAid
SysAid Technologies
SysAid provides IT and enterprise service management solutions that transform IT agent productivity, drastically enhance the end-user experience, and drive value across the organization. SysAid partners with over 10K customers, from SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises in 140 countries. Available in 42 languages as a cloud-based and on-premises solution. - Everything’s cross-referenced within SysAid e.g. every ticket, asset, patch, and related item, to help close the loop faster. - Built-in service orchestration and service desk automation to slash ticket resolution time. - Native asset management and CMDB to help simplify the process for tracking/auditing all IT and non-IT equipment. - Easy self-service adoption with an effortless, omni-channel end-user experience, enabling one-touch tickets. - Codeless configuration, so you can work the way you want (instead of adapting to rigid tools provided by others). - Out-of-the-box reporting, BI analytics, and configurable dashboard
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XPM platform
ProtocolSoft Tech., Inc.
XPM is a commercial quality and enterprise level performance management/monitoring and traffic analysis solution. XPM is a high-performance enterprise product based on Linux, which supports continuous operation of 7*24*365. Therefore, it may not be suitable for individual users, but more suitable for enterprise users who need higher IT service quality. XPM monitoring objects include: 1> Applications using HTTP protocol; 2> Databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL server); 3> URL Transaction; 4> Network, server and client. Awards of XPM: Innovation Award of ITSS 2018, ITSS is a department of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. Please note that: The downloadable version here is XPM standard version, which can analyze about 1 Gbps of traffic in real time, and only supports X86 server deployment. If you need vProbe-XPM to monitor virtual machine traffic, or XPM-H version over 1 Gbps, please contact us by email.
Starting Price: $0/month/module -
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Appchkr
Nova Software
Appchkr is an uptime monitoring, alerting, and reporting family of software featuring advanced, high power, general purpose types for large networks and server farms to simple, basic types specialized for small businesses and individual websites. Free forever for 10 targets. Hands-free background operation. Swift setup, fast alerts, unmatched feature set and performance/price ratio. Runs on any MSWindows or Linux version. Checks both LANs and WANs, intranet and internet, both inside and outside your network. Worldwide distribution and support. Light on your time, your network, and your budget. Types specialized for databases, facilities management, security, and QA/QC/Certification/test systems. Integrates with Slack and Pagerduty. Offers public status pages. Integrated diagnostic tools help shorten and prevent downtime. Controlled via web browser and/or command line, interchangeably. Auto-flex option minimizes cost. Extensive documentation.
Starting Price: $2.99/month -
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PagerDuty
PagerDuty
PagerDuty is an incident management platform that provides reliable notifications, automatic escalations, on-call scheduling, and other functionality to help teams detect and fix infrastructure problems quickly. Integrate Data From All Your DevOps Tools. PagerDuty is the central nervous system for your digital ecosystem. We sit at the heart of your technology ecosystem and analyze digital signals from virtually any software-enabled system. We help you intelligently pinpoint issues like outages, as well as capitalize on opportunities, empowering teams to take the right real-time action. 300+ integrations so you’re up and running immediately. PagerDuty integrates seamlessly with applications like Slack, ServiceNow, AWS, Zendesk, Atlassian, and hundreds more. We work how you work. And you can start using PagerDuty immediately, whether your company uses us already or not.
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CloudRadar Monitoring
CloudRadar
CloudRadar is a professional monitoring solution. It monitors public and private servers, networks and network devices, clouds and websites in one application for availability, uptime, process and performance metrics. CloudRadar promises fast deployment with guided configuration and best-practice alert types pre-configured in its complete alerting engine. Outages and issues are immediately alerted with CloudRadar's notification feature, using 7 different channels to choose from to deliver alerts. Users can completely customize alert thresholds or set up unlimited new checks per host with a complete team management capability. With a focus on delivering a radically simple, uncluttered interface encompassing all critical monitoring metrics, CloudRadar is tool that is built for System Admins and IT managers - allowing them to monitor their entire infrastructure in one unified, easy-to-use interface with deep insights into office, remote or cloud resources across the stack.
Starting Price: $1.70/month -
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Datadog
Datadog
See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere with Datadog, a modern monitoring and analytics solution for modern teams with hybrid cloud environments. Datadog gives teams end-to-end visibility across systems, apps, and services, improving agility and increasing efficiency. Datadog makes this possible by seamlessly aggregating metrics and events across the full Devops stack. Start monitoring with Datadog effortlessly in minutes.
Starting Price: $15.00/month/user -
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openITCOCKPIT
it-novum GmbH
Easy to use configuration web interface for Nagios and Neamon. The monitoring solution for corporations and SMEs From large data centers to critical IT services – monitor and manage all of your servers, applications and systems at a glance! openITCOCKPIT creates transparency by providing comprehensive monitoring of your entire IT landscape. Its modular design includes features such as reporting, event correlation and clustering capabilities – all in an intuitive web interface. And by using its supplied host and service templates, experienced administrators can save time and effort which will be better placed in other areas. The supplied REST API makes it easy to connect to external systems. With openITCOCKPIT, the classical division between monitoring and configuration is removed. After exporting the configuration to Naemon/Nagios, users can immediately see the status of the monitored hosts and services in the front end and then edit them directly.
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Splunk Enterprise
Splunk
Go from data to business outcomes faster than ever before with Splunk. Splunk Enterprise makes it simple to collect, analyze and act upon the untapped value of the big data generated by your technology infrastructure, security systems and business applications—giving you the insights to drive operational performance and business results. Collect and index log and machine data from any source. Combine your machine data with data in your relational databases, data warehouses and Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. Multi-site clustering and automatic load balancing scale to support hundreds of terabytes of data per day, optimize response times and provide continuous availability. The Splunk platform makes it easy to customize Splunk Enterprise to meet the needs of any project. Developers can build custom Splunk applications or integrate Splunk data into other applications. Apps from Splunk, our partners and our community enhance and extend the power of the Splunk platform.
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AdRem NetCrunch
AdRem Software
NetCrunch 10 is a smart, agentless network monitoring and management software system that is capable of monitoring every device in a network. Developed by AdRem Software, NetCrunch 10 helps businesses of all sizes to remotely monitor network services, switches, routers, bandwidth utilization, and traffic flow as well as visualize their system performance. AdRem NetCrunch 10 offers a wide variety of features, including capacity monitoring, service desk management, Windows diagnostic tools, remote access, IP address monitoring, progress report, and more. This all-in-one solution provides support for all leading OS types, such as Linux, Windows, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Mac OS X, and BSD.
Starting Price: $1160.00/year -
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WebSitePulse
WebSitePulse
WebSitePulse provides independent, remote monitoring of your web assets. Some of the most used services are uptime monitoring, website monitoring, server monitoring, web transaction monitoring. For the full list of service visit https://www.websitepulse.com/services/
Starting Price: Free
Network Monitoring Software Buyer's Guide
Websites are extremely important to most organizations, and they are the face of that organization online. Therefore, they are get a lot of traffic that affects the organization's overall online presence. Due to this, it is imperative that these websites are always accessible to their clients and customers, and they can suffer very little downtime to be effective. This is where network monitoring software comes in handy, because it a security software network that is designed to monitor and track network related issues.
This guide is designed to help organizations to get a better understanding of the network monitoring software landscape. It will answer many questions that organizations might have to understand this type of software and which particular one will best suit their individual needs.
Network Monitoring Uses
Network monitoring services were designed to help organizations to keep their data centers functioning and healthy, at all times. They help to analyze data, monitor incoming and outgoing data, and detect any threats to an organizations network by examining both devices and applications in real time. They do it in real time, because it helps organizations get warning alerts faster so they can respond to threats promptly. Therefore, organizations need to have effective IT departments to help manage these services. In the past, networks that were unreliable would result in things like delayed emails and other things that made things easier to workaround. However, in today's business world this is different. Having a data network that is unreliable can cause an organization's operations to come to a standstill. For example, if network systems can get IP addresses through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), then their system will be unable to communicate with other organization systems. Likewise, organizations' systems will be unable to connect to the internet via any system if there is a function in a DNS (Domain Name System). It is important to know how to manage an organization's bandwidth, because this will allow all users on the network to meet their full productivity. To help with this, there are different network monitoring systems at the top of the industry below that will help with these types of situations. The majority of them are cloud-based system, but all of them will help to keep an organization's network safe and their users securely connected.
Due to the critical nature of these services, a few of them can cross over into the infrastructure category. At this point, DNS can become even more of an issue for management infrastructure issues. Typically, a network administrator would be responsible for managing DHCP services.
First introduced back in 1998 by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1065, 1066, and 1067, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) was established. Since then, SNMPv2 and SNVPv3 have replaced the original version, and this has made it capable of being adopted across several different platforms. Networking is what SNMP is usually associated with. OSes (Operating systems), like Microsoft Windows, can be configured so that they respond to SNMP commands. Those in charge should make sure that their network management tools will use SNMP efficiently to accomplish the tasks they are needed for.
Anyone that needs to know and understand what is happening on a network has to understand network flows. Cisco routers were the first routers that introduced NetFlow, which allowed analyzation of IP network traffic that was exiting and entering through a particular interface. NetFlow sends data to a point of collect, which is usually a database system, and this makes it easier analyses that are query based. Most switch manufacturers and sampling tools, like sFlow, then follow the same path. Hewlett-Packard, Arista Networks, and Brocade Communications Systems are a few the largest networking vendors that have natural sFlow support. Companies can find sFlow descriptions under RFC 3176.
Important Features of Network Monitoring Software
There are several features that are considered key to having an adequate network management system. A lot of administrators like find the visual graphics that are provided helpful in getting a quick overview of what their current system status is. Not to mention, they can use a dashboard to tweak the arrangements of different graphical elements, as needed. An alert mechanism is important so that someone gets alerted if there is an issue.
IPAM (IP Address Management) is a vital feature for most large corporations. It allows them to keep track of static IP addresses assigned, plus various DHCP pools, that wouldn't be able to managed adequately with the use of a manual system. Since a single person is usually in charge of handling both of those functions, it only makes sense that organization would integrate an IPAM with their network management tool for accuracy and efficiency.
The key to being able to effectively manage a large number of devices at once is automation. The process becomes more efficient with every small administration task that is automated. One of the largest differentiators between different products is the ability to have an automated repair fall and alert. If this is added to a monitoring system along with the ability to connect remotely, the produce becomes a solid option.
SDN (Software-Defined Networking) is needed, but it takes a technologist or vendor to help reduce the confusion it causes. Basically, SDN is a term that describes the forwarding plane and how the network control plane is functionally separated. It is only through these two things that configuring optimum data paths become possible. However, SDN is only found in the top level of performance switches in network monitoring systems.
What Type of Buyer Are You?
Networking monitoring software needs are greatly impacted by the size of an organization. Generally, most features are divided into solutions that are most beneficial for larger enterprises and small businesses separately:
- Large Enterprises - Larger enterprises generally have different server locations, and they could be in different geographical locations, as well. Therefore, they need features that are more advanced. Due to the size of their servers and other issues, their administrators need more advanced tools in order to properly diagnose and prevent network related issues.
- Smaller Businesses - Since smaller businesses generally only have one server location, they do not need overall advanced features to keep their network running smoothly. The two most important things to small businesses is to be alerted to any potential issue and making sure that their system is maintained properly.
Pricing
Companies can find a lot of free network monitoring software, but they will have limited features. However, companies can usually pay for extra features if they have a larger server network.
The price for most network monitoring platforms is based on the network size, and generally, companies are charged monthly for these services. It makes it easy for companies that have multiple server locations because they can just pay a fee to add the new server to their existing network. Plus, they can choose to pay for extra add-ons and features and 24/7 support to help manage their network system.
Key Considerations for Network Monitoring Software
It is important to know what requirements you need from a network monitoring system, and you should prioritize them on importance. This will allow you to find the right network monitoring system for your organization's need. There are a few parameters that have been set to help an organization identify which solution will work best:
- Customization in specific priorities and processes - Every organization is different, and their systems are equally different. Therefore, it is important that the solution chosen is customizable to provides alerts and how those alerts are processed. As a buyer, an organization needs to know exactly what they want to monitor and if they want that information sent as a report, to a support team, or both options.
- Scope of the System - In the end, the system that you choose should be able to handle any and all of the variations that your process will require. A couple of the things that it should be able to handle are monitoring multiple geographical locations, handle different virtual environments, and process specific network devices.
- Automated discovery of components - Automation becomes increasingly important the larger an organization is. This is due to the fact they have multiple servers and systems, and everything might not be monitored properly. Since it's not always possible to send a technical team to see about every issue, the automation will allow them to prioritize things.
- After-hours support model - Organizations are not open all the time, and therefore, it is important that the system that is purchased will actually benefit the company and provide all of the after-hour support that it needs.
- Scalability - Organizations need to make sure that the system they choose will be able to grow as they do to avoid problems in the future.
- Location of Support Contacts - It is important to know where the contacts for an organization chosen network monitoring solution are. This will help to judge their overall support service for an organization.
- Availability of Internal IT staff - A network monitoring system will only run as smoothly as it can be monitored and the work it generates can be handles. The internal IT team need to know what they are required to do under different circumstances.
- Clearly defined SLA (service level agreements) - This is extremely important before choosing any given network monitoring system. It is imperative that an organization understand each option for timing and the escalation process. The SLA can be negotiated to provide what the organization specifically needs.