5 Network Monitoring Companies worth considered in 2020

Happy new year! What is your resolution for the new year 2020? For those of you who have a company, surely one of your hopes this year is to want your business to run well with minimal problems, right? Moreover, we have entered the digital world which is also a security challenge for companies, especially in the digital field. One thing that you can apply to realize your resolution above is network monitoring. However, choosing a network monitoring provider is not easy. Such as determining the appropriate budget and also the features needed by the company. It seems that this article can help you to see which network monitoring companies are worth considering in 2020. Check out the following explanation.

1. NetMonk by Ketitik
   The next network monitoring company that is no less good is NetMonk, a network monitoring application and network monitoring services, this domestic product also has services and quality that are not inferior to products from abroad. You can monitor your network devices such as switches, routers, access points and so on as long as the network device has been installed with SNMP first. What are the benefits you can get? You can consider three superior NetMonk features, namely:

Real-time notification
Get real-time notifications via email or Telegram chat application. You will get notifications about network devices with accurate time. If you usually use email to receive notifications and want to avoid the message going into spam, you can use Telegram which has a larger capacity and is certainly safer.

Predictive analytics
What is predictive analytics? This is very useful for knowing the trend of link usage and how long it will take to reach its threshold, namely by collecting traffic data from the network periodically and then analyzing it automatically. So, NetMonk will notify your network IT team before exceeding the usage threshold.

Reports in PDF file format
If you usually (especially network engineers) have to deal with many and troublesome reports such as reports in Excel format with numbers that are sometimes irregular, now you don’t need to worry because NetMonk has the solution. With NetMonk, you can easily download a summary report of network usage for a certain period in PDF file format.

2. AppNeta
   The first network monitoring company is AppNeta, a computer software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with research and development based in Vancouver, British Columbia. As quoted from Wikipedia, the company was founded in 2000 by Irfhan Rajani. Before changing its name to AppNeta in 2011 until now, this product was initially called Appare Net.

AppNeta is an industry of cloud-based network performance management and web application performance services. The company uses PathView Cloud to manage application and network performance in various branch offices. PathView Cloud itself is designed for IT professionals to monitor and analyze network traffic and show the cause of the problem.

3. Icinga
   The next network monitoring company is Ichinga. The company was founded in 2009 by a group of developers from the Nagios community who were dissatisfied with the development of Nagios itself. Ichinga is an open source network monitoring company. So, anyone can use it because it is open source. In this case, Ichinga has similarities with Cacti.
4. Solarwinds
   Almost all network engineers, IT, and experts in the field of network monitoring must be familiar with this monitoring tool. Solarwinds is a monitoring tool founded by 2 brothers Donald Yonce and David Yonce in 1999 in Tusla, Oklahoma. This American company develops software for businesses to help manage networks, information technology infrastructure, and systems. Solarwinds has a variety of tools and solutions, the most important of which are monitoring tools, IT management software and many others. Of course, with prices that vary according to the tools you use.
5. PRTG
   Last but not least is PRTG or also called Paessler. This company from Germany has a variety of products from paid to free available. PRTG can be used to monitor and classify system conditions such as bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from other hosts such as routers, servers, switches, and other devices and applications.

Those are the five network monitoring companies that you can consider throughout 2020. NetMonk, which is a network monitoring application and network monitoring services, is one of the right choices to provide monitoring solutions on your company’s network. Just ask our marketing team for more information about our products or information related to PoC by clicking here. Or if you want to get to know our products first, you can request a demo of our products by clicking “try now” below this article or on the main page of our website. Hopefully this article can help.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppNet#cite_note-11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichinga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarWinds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRTG_Network_Monitor