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    Auvik

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AAuvik Network Management is a vendor-agnostic cloud-based network monitoring and management solution providing automated network discovery. Auvik requires no service hardware or disruptive maintenance cycles and provides onboarding and training for new and existing users. Auvik delivers visibility and automation to reduce friction for IT teams and allow them to give end users the freedom to work wherever and however they…N/A
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    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is calculated per number of switches, routers, firewalls, and controllers. Everything else is monitored for free.
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    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Chose Auvik
    Auvik was a much better to scale as an MSP and their support offering was far better from my research. Knowledge base, training, and dedicated support/account reps made it an easy decision. As an MSP we need less time maintaining and learning the tools and more time working …
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    Chose Auvik
    Auvik's license structure is simple and affordable. Auvik's license is based on total network devices in your network. They charge only for total number of Switches, Routers, firewalls and Wireless controllers in your network. All other devices license would be free of charge
    Incentivized
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    Auvik was the best overall feature set, pricing model, ease of setup, and great technical support.
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    Nicer GUI, easier setup, but considerably more expensive.
    Incentivized
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    Auvik has an automatic discovery setting, where Zabbix has to be done per each machine. This slows things down and makes it a little more complicated especially when there is no credentials or anything that is available. Zabbix however has a better uptime compared to Auviks. …
    Incentivized
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    Auvik can stand up against any of the big network management and monitoring solutions on the market. I've implemented and used SolarWinds at many organizations for over 15 years. The paradigm that SolarWinds, PRTG, Prime, etc., work under is completely different than Auvik. …
    Incentivized
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    Ease of use, professional, and just a better overall product than every other tool out there.
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    Auvik is easier to deploy and more powerful
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    ConnectWise Automate has a network map feature but Auvik is much easier to use.
    Incentivized
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    Ease of use and support from the Auvik Team.
    Incentivized
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    I have previewed several other products, and they all look like a joke compared to Auvik. I have not tested them, however, so I won't say anything further on that.
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    Auvik blows most of these out of the water. We have tried Nagios, Solarwinds and PRTG. We are happy with our choice of Auvik over those.
    Incentivized
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    Auvik is a superior tool for MSPs due to its multi-tenant capability, speed of deployment for new customers, and integrations with the current common MSP tools stack. Intermapper is a very powerful and expensive application, so not directly applicable, but Auvik still has many …
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    Auvik is a better solution than Nagios.
    Incentivized
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    I came onboard with Solarwinds already installed and running. It took me some time to learn my way around the Web interface. Nice product but a little convoluted for me. We weren't using it to it's full potential. It did work well for network monitoring, and configuration …
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    Not as robust on the networking side.
    Incentivized
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    Auvik was better in two key respects: MSP-friendly pricing and also in the ability for less experienced technicians to set it up and use it.
    Incentivized
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    Auvik does a better job of visually giving a representation of how items are connected in the network. Also, the alerts are fast and detailed, which allows fast response to issues when they arise. There are many SNMP details already in Auvik and they have the ability to monitor …
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    Opmanager is more customizable but requires way more man-hours to set up and operate.
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    Auvik is much easier to configure out of the box
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    The out of the box features and alerting with Auvik have been incredibly helpful. The navigation is slightly behind the clarity within the SolarWinds portals, but the alerting is significantly better out of the box.
    Incentivized
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    Since we have only evaluated Auvik and have solely rested on this as a solution, we have no ability to compare and contrast other vendor offerings such as SolarWinds or HP's network discovery tools.
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    Incentivized
    Chose Auvik
    We already have a set tool that we use and we use Auvik to fill in the blanks and double up for backups. not a lot of tools are able to do what Auvik does, but it also goes the other way around. With network monitoring, Auvik does have more features compared to some others. …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    92 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
    Features
    Auvik
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Auvik
    Feature
    Auvik
    7.9
    106 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Automated network device discovery9.6105 Ratings
    Network monitoring8.8106 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation7.883 Ratings
    Alerts8.6105 Ratings
    Network capacity planning7.683 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis7.065 Ratings
    Network mapping8.4104 Ratings
    Customizable reports5.678 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.485 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring8.296 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    PingPlotter
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nmap
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Auvik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Auvik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Auvik is well suited for managed service customers and small-scale SMB customers who do not have enough technical resource to manage and monitor their network. Also for customer who has distributed networks spreaded across worldwide or nation wide, Auvik is well suited since it does not need any on-premise setup at each site except for a collector. For customer who has already adopted and used cloud network and hosting services, Auvik is better as Auvik is also fully cloud based offering
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    Pros
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    • Auvik is the big pic tool of choice for network diagramming, helps layout of our network infrastructure, and we'll know immediately the status of the devices that are successfully communicating, and those that may have, for example, credentials issues.
    • Auvik's "Traffic Insights" are key accelerators for intuitively isolating and resolving traffic-related issues quickly and easily, and the historical information makes it simpler to deduce what aspects may need replacement, capacity improvement, or possibly even re-architecture.
    • Auvik integration tools are excellent solution enhancers - that are of particular interest to our company, as we make use of MS Teams and Connectwise products; we would like to see some features to integrate to ServiceNow as well.
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    Cons
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    • The map is not easy to quickly zoom in and out of or pan around. Usually requires a lot of filter toggling. Keyboard shortcuts for this would be nice.
    • Better global settings that can be pushed to multiple client organizations
    • Security groups/RBAC for user permissions across multiple clients
    • Ability to change the URL
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Because it's an amazing product.
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    Usability
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    The program can be a bit unwieldy at times, however the majority of information is displayed in a readable and friendly way. The maps and popup information box from the bottom can be harder to use on a smaller screen but on a 1080p+ display tends to work fine.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    We have never had a major outage or impact that was noticeable.
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    Performance
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Pages can be slow to load on larger sites but tends to be fine for most clients.
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    Support Rating
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Fast response and knowledgeable. If the technician does not know, they will look for the information and get back to you.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Auvik can stand up against any of the big network management and monitoring solutions on the market. I've implemented and used SolarWinds at many organizations for over 15 years. The paradigm that SolarWinds, PRTG, Prime, etc., work under is completely different than Auvik. It's apparent that Auvik was aiming to solve a different problem and built that solution from the ground up. For any organization responsible for multiple other organizations' infrastructure, Auvik is invaluable in comparison to the other products listed.
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    Scalability
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Auvik has worked on sites with 15+ offices connected with VPN's and we have not encountered any issues with the monitoring. On larger sites the map can be a bit cumbersome to read however it can be cleaned up easily with device filters.
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    Return on Investment
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    • the ROI for Auvik comes from the time it saves in updating documentation and onboarding, new clients. We no longer have to spend a day investigating a network and documenting it, this is life and up to date so you always have true information for reporting and troubleshooting.
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    ScreenShots

    Auvik Screenshots

    Screenshot of a display of the big network picture used to narrow down possible devices to investigate. Auvik pulls data from sources like CDP, LLDP, and forwarding tables to meticulously model the Layer 1 network diagram. Layers 2 and 3 are built from ARP tables, IP assignments, and VLAN associations to show what’s on the network, where it is, and how it’s connected.Screenshot of Auvik’s automated inventory, which uses network protocols to detect and capture full details for every device on the network including make and model, serial number, IP address, and the physical switchport the device is connected to. If the device is known but not its location, Auvik can find the device and every other device it’s connected to.Screenshot of lifecycle data, pulled from supported devices to show whether they’re on current or expired support contracts, whether there are more up-to-date software versions available, if devices are eligible to receive critical security updates, and if devices are still available for purchase.Screenshot of Auvik's over 50 pre-configured alerts tuned to industry best practices and ranging from informational to emergency. Its pre-configured alerts can be tweaked, added to, and the frequency of how often notifications are sent can be changed.Screenshot of Auvik TrafficInsights, which leverages machine learning and traffic classification to show which applications—like Dropbox, Netflix, or Slack—or protocols are using up the bulk of the network’s bandwidth.Screenshot of Auvik's centralized syslog for all network devices where they can be viewed directly from the device dashboard for more context, to more quickly troubleshoot network issues.