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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Network Watcher

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.N/A

    Colasoft Capsa

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AColasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A
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    Azure Network WatcherColasoft Capsa
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    Azure Network WatcherColasoft Capsa
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Azure Network WatcherColasoft Capsa
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Azure Network Watcher and Colasoft Capsa
    Feature
    Azure Network Watcher
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Colasoft Capsa
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure Network WatcherColasoft Capsa
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Network WatcherColasoft Capsa
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Network Watcher is well suited to monitor or diagnose logs for azure virtual network, managing connection/relationship between virtual networks. Diagnose network traffic, network traffic etc. Overall, it is appropriate to use in monitoring, diagnostic and logging activities for resources in azure virtual network. It is mainly used in infrastructure as a service component.
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    Colasoft
    Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • View resources and theri relationship
    • Diagnose network routing problems
    • View security rules for a network interface
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    Colasoft
    • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
    • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
    • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • More granular visualization through the Azure Network. Ex. Seeing NSG Flow through each Hop.
    • Allow for more capabilities to view Connectivity through On-Premise Networks.
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    Colasoft
    • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
    • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
    • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure Network Watcher can help with resources in the Cloud if this device is able to send traffic. We are using Azure Network Watcher in cases Solarwinds can't cover easily like API to load balancers & additional testing.
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    Colasoft
    Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Positive impact as it helps in setting up critical alerts
    • Monitoring network, hardware
    • Customizable reports can be set which helps in business objective
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    Colasoft
    • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
    • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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