Compare Free Network Monitor vs. SoftPerfect Network Scanner

Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring solution with an intuitive, user-friendly interface powered by a cutting-edge monitoring engine. It optimizes connections and workloads, reduces operational costs, and prevents outages. It also saves time and controls service level agreements (SLAs). This solution includes specialized monitoring features such as flexible alerting, cluster failover, distributed monitoring, maps, dashboards, and in-depth reporting.

Uptrends is all about cloud-based website performance that keeps track of performance, uptime, and functionality of your websites and APIs. The 24/7 monitoring service that proactively test your website and monitor multi-step transactions. Let’s face it—the Internet is a fragile thing. Stuff breaks or slows every now and then. Uptrends lets you know when it does and what exactly happened. Feel free to try Uptrends for 30 days with our free trial!

Site24x7 provides unified cloud monitoring to support IT operations and DevOps within small and large organizations. The solution monitors real users' experiences on websites and apps from both desktop and mobile devices. DevOps teams can monitor and troubleshoot applications and servers, as well as network infrastructure, including private clouds and public clouds, with in-depth monitoring capabilities. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more 100 locations around the globe and via various wireless carriers.

OpManager is the ideal end-to-end network monitoring tool for your organization's network. With OpManager, you can keep a close eye on health, performance, and availability levels of all network devices. This includes monitoring switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses and firewalls. Insights into your hardware health and performance; monitor CPU, memory, temperature, disk usage, and more to improve efficiency. Seamlessly manage faults and alerts with instant notifications and detailed logs. Streamlined workflows facilitate easy set-up to execute quick diagnosis and corrective measures. The solution also comes with powerful visualization tools such as business views, 3d data center views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards. Get proactive in capacity planning and decision-making with over 250 predefined reports covering all important metrics and areas in your network. Overall, OpManager's detailed management capabilities make it the ideal solution for IT administrators to achieve network resiliency and efficiency.

TotalView offers network monitoring as well as root-cause troubleshooting of problems in plain-English. The solution monitors every device as well as every interface on every device. In addition, TotalView goes deep, collecting 19 error counters, performance, configuration, and connectedness so nothing is outside of it’s view. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. Complex problems can now be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster.

Statseeker is a powerful network performance monitor solution. It's fast, scalable, and cost-effective. Statseeker requires only one server or virtual machine to be up and running in minutes. It can also discover your entire network in under an hour without any significant impact on your bandwidth availability. It can monitor networks of all sizes, polling upto one million interfaces every sixty second, and collecting network data like SNMP, ping, NetFlow (sFlow, and J-Flow), sylog and trap messages, SDN configuration, and health metrics. Statseeker performance data are never averaged or rolled up. This eliminates the guesswork when it comes to identifying over- and underestimated infrastructure, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and other tasks. Statseeker's complete data retention means the in-built analytic engine can accurately detect anomalies in performance and forecast network behaviour months in advance. This allows network admins to plan and perform cost-effective, preventative maintenance, instead of fire-fighting problems as they occur. Statseeker's dashboards and out-of-the box reports allow you to troubleshoot and fix problems in your network before users are aware.

Pulseway, a remote monitoring and management software (RMM) for IT departments and MSPs, allows you to have complete control over your entire IT environment. Pulseway is easy to use and quick-to-deploy. It ensures that IT issues are identified, monitored, and resolved as soon as possible. The platform provides complete visibility through the Pulseway dashboard, advanced automation, remote management, OS & third party patch management, network monitoring and IT automation, custom reports as well as complete command traceability, email notification, and many other features. We also offer add-ons to endpoint protection, business management (PSA), backup & disaster restoration software, and integration with top AV providers to give your IT stack the power it deserves. Pulseway is used by over 6,000 customers around the world every day to manage their IT infrastructure. Get a 14-day free trial.

FirstWave’s NMIS is a network management system that provides fault, performance, configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly specific notification policies that can be used with multiple notification methods. FirstWave also enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.

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NetCrunch is a next-gen, agentless infrastructure and traffic network monitoring system designed for hybrid, multi-site, and fast changing infrastructures. It combines real-time observability with alert automation and intelligent escalation to eliminate the overhead and limitations of legacy tools like PRTG or SolarWinds. NetCrunch supports agentless monitoring of thousands of nodes from a single server-covering physical devices, virtual machines, servers, traffic flows, cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), SNMP, syslogs, Windows Events, IoT, telemetry, and more. Unlike sensor-based tools, NetCrunch uses node-based licensing and policy-driven configuration to streamline monitoring, reduce costs, and eliminate sensor micromanagement. 670+ built-in monitoring packs apply instantly based on device type, ensuring consistency across the network. NetCrunch delivers real-time, dynamic maps and dashboards that update without manual refreshes, giving users immediate visibility into issues and performance. Its smart alerting engine features root cause correlation, suppression, predictive triggers, and over 40 response actions including scripts, API calls, notifications, and integrations with Jira, Teams, Slack, Amazon SNS, MQTT, PagerDuty, and more. Its powerful REST API makes NetCrunch perfect for flow automation, including integration with asset management, production/IoT/operations monitoring and other IT systems with ease. Whether replacing an aging platform or modernizing enterprise observability, NetCrunch offers full-stack coverage with unmatched flexibility. Fast to deploy, simple to manage, and built to scale-NetCrunch is the smarter, faster, and future-ready monitoring system. Designed for on-prem (including air-gapped), cloud self-hosted or hybrid networks.