Compare NetFlow Analysis Tools

Compare NetFlow Tools and see why NetFlow Auditor provides the best visibility of every network conversation and scales beyond any other product in the industry.

Some competitors use flows per second, some flows per minute. Some play with export numbers. Remember that flows themselves can be aggregated inside an export so the statistics will be impacted. Our stats are based on exports per second in a sustained mode and capacity to handle bursts as a second critical factor. We never state a number we cannot back up and we do not try to confuse customers with silly mathematics. Some competitors in our industry think that they can fool you simply multiplying or dividing by 60 to get per minute stats or to sway per second statistics. But not for long! After trying NetFlow Auditor you'll soon see why this is flow intelligence you can depend on and we are confident that you will report great things about us in blog land.

SAY NO TO SILICON SNAKE OIL. Do not be hoodwinked by clever marketing language. After reading a vendors marketing a few times you can pick out the words that allow them to hide behind their true poor performance. We urge you to Seek the truth. Scrutinize it carefully. Not all NetFlow analyzers are the same. Run NetFlow Auditor side by side and you will see we simply do not melt down like others do. No need to decompile an application to understand its real limitations. Dig a bit deeper into the freely available SQL statements and for those who are trained in the art the truth is easily discovered. Still confused? Call us and we will help you to demystify the marketing bunk further. There is an old acronym in our industry GIGO which stands for Garbage in Garbage out no matter how pretty the screen may look the results may still be severely limited. That is why in every collector we release, whether the Performance only license for Top traffic or our Professional Flow Collectors or our Enterprise collectors, we pride ourselves on the integrity and forensic ability so you can depend on the intelligence NetFlow Auditor provides.

We dont just talk the talk

Here are the stats that prove we walk the walk.

NetFlow Auditor Professional License 100% Raw Flow Collection for Anomaly Detection, Security Forensics. Application Performance and Scaling (pdf) It is strongly fault tolerant and self-healing. The statistics provided thus far prove that it scales and performs at least 10 times better than any other 100% raw flow software available with no aggregation on a 32-bit dual-core processor.

NetFlow Auditor Performance License also has superior collection design and scalability as it is dependent on a multi-sort approach with less records needed to provide Performance information. It is less suited to Security, Anomaly Detection or Forensics ability. It is a cheap but solid investment and well suited to performance management teams who need to identify the top traffic offenders. If you decide you need more visibility or features these are easily added with a simple upgrade of license keys. So your investment in product, training and linkages to interdependent systems is not lost as you scale up.

NetFlow Auditor Enterprise License 100% Raw Flow Collection and Forensics. - has superior collection scalability and is highly fault tolerant and self-healing ensuring the least traffic loss available in the industry today. NetFlow Auditor Enterprise set the Industry benchmark at NSW Department of Education with proven collection of over 2 Million flows/second. It is well suited to Billing (Usage / 95th Percentile), Anomaly Detection and Security Forensics.

Say NO to Lack of Scalability

Scalability is perhaps the most critical factor in choosing a flow-based solution. NetFlow Auditor scales to more than 1M flows/second on a single collector while other solutions top out at 10K flows/second.

If your NetFlow or IPFIX solution fails to scale and "melts" under the pressure of high flow rates you will have "no visibility" into your network. It will either fail totally or poor application responsiveness will make it unusable.

Performance Management versus Forensics

A view to only the "Top" conversations or applications provides sufficient information to quickly troubleshoot the main traffic offenders but most issues hide below the surface. So if deploying only a Top Flow view defeats the purpose of deploying a solution for complete network visibility then why do we sell it?

We know that customers needs are different at different times. By providing a Top Flow view with ability to move to a Full Flow view with a simple license change means that our customers investments are safe. So if budget only allows a small start, we provide the very best small start in the industry.

Many customers entering the NetFlow space are still new and often compare a more competent technique against the lower end collectors in the market place. In this case, our Performance licenses are more appropriate. The collection mechanism in our Performance license offers an low-cost-entry option that still goes deeper in granularity than competitors. NetFlow Auditor Performance license can still handle hundreds of devices. With our Perfomance orientated License the view of data is still highly granular and every effort is made to keep relevant flows with the default but configurable option being split between Top Bytes, Top Packets and Top Flow generators.

The investment benefit with the Performance license is that you can easily move to better visibility or functionality when you are ready without losing your initial investment. Simply by changing or adding to the license key provides increased visibility and add-on features. This means that NetFlow Auditor is a scalable investment that can begin with a small license and grow with changing needs.

Customers say NO to Lack of Granularity when they recognize that it:

•   handcuffs your ability to troubleshoot critical problems and spot security threats.
•   provides only a partial view of what is really going on in your network.
•   introduces risk in not being able to provide detailed information that may be required with mounting compliance and regulatory requirements being placed on IT.
•   Even if a solution can meet your needs currently will it be able to meet your growing needs in the future - when will it finally fail?

NetFlow Auditor License Investment

NetFlow Auditor comes in three license tiers; The Performance license scales well beyond other products in the NetFlow arena and is designed to provide only real-time functionality with Top Analysis data in line with the other NetFlow products; the Professional license allows full raw flow capture and forensics with long-term trending, and; the Enterprise license is Telco grade for very large flow captures. NetFlow Anomaly Detection is an optional add-on module.

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