We performed a comparison between Flowmon and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"The solution is stable."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The documentation is very good."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"It is stable."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"The licensing price could be better."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The interface needs some work."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The product is old and not updated."
Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 40th in Network Monitoring Software with 21 reviews. Flowmon is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "Accurate network monitoring, but tech support is lacking". Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Vectra AI and NETSCOUT nGeniusPULSE, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Cisco DNA Center.
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