Azure Network Watcher vs. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Network Watcher
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Microsoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.N/A
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Score 9.1 out of 10
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NETSCOUT’s nGeniousONE is a platform designed to monitor enterprise-level networks. It includes standard monitoring capabilities, as well as advanced inspection and analytics features.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Azure Network Watcher
8.3
Ratings
1% above category average
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
8.7
Ratings
6% above category average
Automated network device discovery8.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Network monitoring8.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Alerts9.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Network capacity planning8.80 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis8.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Network mapping8.20 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.10 Ratings8.00 Ratings
User Ratings
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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10.0
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Usability
-
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6.5
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Support Rating
-
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7.5
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User Testimonials
Azure Network WatcherNETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Network Watcher is well-suited for cloud environment, it's necessary for the network troubleshooting. It is especially useful in where you have done integration with azure virtual wan and custom routes (udr) to control traffic in a hub & spoke network with Azure firewall. When the traffic is manipulated with udr, the troubleshooting at the routing level becomes important in some cases.
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It’s best for troubleshooting issues that require a packet level analysis. By having source/destination you can have a view into how the packets are traversing the network. If alerts/baselines are set up it can help identify something out of the norm. Very useful for VoIP applications as well. Would not recommend for small scale environments.
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Pros
  • Monitor endpoints Health for Azure Traffic Manager
  • Monitor VM Machine resources
  • Deliver reports for IT department
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  • The graphical interface has to be the key benefit of NetScout. I am more of a packet analyzer but the interface gives the upper levels easier view into the network.
  • The breakdown of sites is useful.
  • The ability of the break the traffic down and go into the packet analyzer straight from the graphical interface. Saves a lot of time writing filters with just simple clicks.
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Cons
  • Security measures can be improved
  • Initial Setup process is complex and should be simplified
  • User interface can be improved
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  • Better access to resources
  • Pricing in this niche market is very high, hard for the little guy to take advantage of these solutions
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Usability
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It provides a lot of useful information, but it's not always easy/intuitive to find it. It really needs to get a fully functional API integrated to support automation and integration with other monitoring and analytics tools to enable faster decision making. On the other hand, it gathers a lot of useful information from complex networks that are useful for capacity management and faster incident isolation and resolution.
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Support Rating
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We have a dedicated OSE who has been very helpful. Besides that, we have little experience beyond this specific model
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Alternatives Considered
Azure Network watcher provides various feature that stacks up against other products such as monitoring which include network monitoring and connection monitoring etc. Diagnostic feature which includes connection troubleshoot, VPN troubleshoot etc. Logging feature which includes network traffic analysis and helps in understanding network traffic more efficiently. All these features in azure network watcher make it worth.
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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is the best solution which we have encountered so far. The best part about this is that it can be integrated with various third party tool for more visibility and behavior analysis. The dashboard is loaded with a lot of useful features which gives the complete trend analysis of connectivity loss and network flaps and helps to identify the critical sites which is not present in other technology solution. This is an incredible network performance monitoring tool
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Return on Investment
  • Helped us diagnose IP and Port flow from a DNS integration project resulting in success of the project
  • Has helped numerous times analyzing IP Port flow from Resources
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  • NetScout nGeniusONE helps to reduce the time and effort (people to involve) to react on network outages, speed up the investigation progress, and much more quickly to identify the root cause.
  • Proactive helps the operation team to identify the underline problems and help the business to take actions before the issue starts to impact the customer's business. Help to reduce the incidents and outages.
  • Help the operation teams to better understand the performance and health of the network from a higher level and end to end perspective, improve the efficiency of work.
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