ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is built specifically for network traffic and bandwidth analysis. It helps IT teams gain detailed visibility into application usage, traffic patterns, and bandwidth consumption using real-time flow data. Along with advanced reporting, capacity planning, anomaly detection, and security analytics, NetFlow Analyzer supports both bandwidth management and optimization across growing network environments.
WhatsUp Gold, on the other hand, is a well-known network monitoring tool that offers bandwidth monitoring mainly for visibility and troubleshooting purposes. While this is useful for understanding traffic patterns and diagnosing issues, organizations that need deeper traffic insights, long-term planning, and broader bandwidth management capabilities often benefit from a more specialized solution like NetFlow Analyzer.
NetFlow Analyzer is ideal for IT and network teams that need more than basic network monitoring. It is especially useful for organizations that want:
This makes NetFlow Analyzer a strong choice for teams that rely on traffic-centric insights to improve performance, plan network growth, and maintain better control over bandwidth usage.
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer offers a flexible, cost-effective interface-based licensing model built for scalable, traffic-focused monitoring. Compared to WhatsUp Gold’s device-based pricing, it helps organizations gain deeper visibility into network usage while keeping costs aligned with real monitoring needs.
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| Primary focus | Network traffic & bandwidth analysis | Device & network monitoring |
| Standalone version | Yes | Network Traffic Analysis is included as a part of WhatsUp Gold’s Total Plus editions and is available as an add-on in the Premium, MSP, and Distributed editions. |
| Pricing | From $245 (10 interfaces, 2 users) | Pricing available upon request (not publicly listed) |
| Pricing model | Interface-based, and flexible | Device-based, predefined tiers |
NetFlow Analyzer stands its ground to provide visibility of your network down to its nodes, and control over its performance and security. Our technical depth and understanding of ongoing challenges in this domain had helped us develop a solution that you can choose anytime for your business requirements.
Besides supporting multiple flow technologies like NetFlow, sFlow, Jflow, and IPFIX, NetFlow Analyzer stands out as the best Solarwinds alternative by letting you monitor their non-flow exporting devices with an agent called NetFlow Generator, which translates mirrored data packets into NetFlow packets.
Pull out traffic trends report for any wired or wireless devices, interfaces, and IP addresses to understand how individual entities contribute to the overall bandwidth usage. Understand the impact with customizable reports, trace the recurrence with raw-data based forensic reports, and ensure there is a streamlined resource allocation henceforth.
Improve resolution pace with spot-on reports that test the root cause of performance degradation and optimize your networks better with on-demand speed tests that reports on how your network delivers the speed promised by the ISP.
NetFlow Analyzer’s Security Analytics uses machine learning and adaptive baselining to continuously learn normal behavior, correlate flows and events across the network, and detect subtle anomalies in real time. It identifies deviations such as unusual traffic patterns, protocol abuses, and lateral movement, providing deep context to support faster investigation and informed security decisions.
Extend the scope of your bandwidth monitoring of cloud services with Amazon AWS VPC traffic monitoring. Identify performance bottlenecks in your cloud network by different elements to know the network activity and enhance its overall efficiency and security with QoS policies, and bandwidth usage reports.
Bandwidth management or risk management, NetFlow Analyzer has got everything from monitoring to troubleshooting covered with top ITSM applications' integrations like Jira, ServiceDesk Plus, ServiceNow, Slack. As an enhancement, it also now offers Webhook integration with applications like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, etc. You could also unify popular network management applications of ManageEngine like OpUtils, Network Configuration Manager and Applications Manager add-ons under NetFlow Analyzer console if you're an existing user.
NetFlow Analyzer ensures to keep your network and data safe with following advanced encryption and authentication standards. Additionally, features like SSL configuration, password protection, and trusted certificates helps secures your network.
NetFlow Analyzer complies with the following data security standards
An Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer needed a unified solution to manage its large, complex network, supporting video conferencing and MPLS while preparing for future growth. It sought a tool that integrated seamlessly with its existing system, offering features like agentless monitoring, usability, and cost efficiency. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer met all these needs, with a user-friendly interface, advanced monitoring capabilities, and smooth integration, making it the top choice for scalable network management.
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