Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Tools
Network traffic analysis (NTA) software is a tool used to track real-time network traffic in order to analyze network availability and performance, detect anomalies, and identify security threats such as malware and ransomware attacks. +Show More
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AKIPS Network Monitor |
Niche Player
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N/A
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AKIPS Network Monitor is a fully featured, fast and cost-effective network and infrastructure performance-monitoring tool which provides unmatched visibility across your network. AKIPS is suited for medium-large organisations and enterprises, and allows network engineers to detect faults and performance issues before any operational disruption occurs. Run off a single server, AKIPS is the most-scalable product of its kind on the market. AKIPS Network Monitor empowers your business to maintain its operational state and minimise possible outages due to IT infrastructure failing or risk events occurring.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
6
Latest funding date
April 5, 2022
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2004
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Datadog |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. The SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
40-50 case studies
Company's number of employees
5k-10k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
8
Latest funding date
May 28, 2020
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2010
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PRTG Network Monitor |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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PRTG Network Monitor is a real-time unified infrastructure monitoring solution that enables IT Pros to locate problems throughout thier entire network and resolve them before they escalate and become business critical. PRTG monitors all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure using these technologies: SNMP: ready to use and custom options WMI and Windows Performance Counters SSH: for Linux/Unix and MacOS systems Flows and Packet Sniffing HTTP requests REST APIs returning XML or JSON Ping, SQL and many more Over 300,000 sysadmins at both SMB's and large enterprises, use PRTG Network Monitor to make their networks faster, more responsive, and more reliable.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
May 23, 2024
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1997
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Progress WhatsUp Gold |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Progress WhatsUp Gold, the IT infrastructure monitoring software, lets you find and fix network problems fast – usually before end users notice. Its unique, interactive mapping interface lets you intuitively see up/down availability and performance at-a-glance for everything connected to your network. Easily customizable drag & drop dashboards let you see the detailed status and performance of every device both on-premise and in the cloud. With the Enterprise Grade IT Infrastructure Monitoring Software WhatsUp Gold, you can automatically discover and map your entire network to get the information you need to streamline troubleshooting. Optimize your network traffic and bandwidth utilization, use actionable, unified, and customizable dashboards and quickly find and fix your network and server problems.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1991
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kentik |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
20-30 case studies
Company's number of employees
200-300 employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
October 7, 2021
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2014
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ExtraHop |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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ExtraHop is the cybersecurity partner enterprises trust to reveal the unknown and unmask the attack. We’re on a mission to protect and propagate trust by revealing the cybertruth: the truth about attackers already inside your network, what they’re doing, and how to stop them. We partner with every customer, every day, to uncover it. Our Reveal(x) 360 platform is the only network detection and response solution to deliver 360-degree threat visibility across the entire hybrid attack surface, from on-premises to multi-cloud to distributed workforces and operations. When organizations have full network transparency with ExtraHop, they can see more, know more, and stop more cyberattacks.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$50-100m
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
May 29, 2014
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2007
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InsightIDR |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Rapid7 InsightIDR is a SaaS SIEM for modern threat detection and response. InsightIDR enables security analysts to work more efficiently and effectively, by unifying diverse data sources, providing early and reliable out of the box detections, and delivering rich visual investigations and automation to expedite response. With a lightweight cloud deployment and intuitive UI and onboarding experience, InsightIDR customers recognize an accelerated return on their investment and start seeing valuable insights from Day 1. With InsightIDR, teams can advance their threat detection and response program without adding headcount.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
3k-4k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
8
Latest funding date
June 26, 2024
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2000
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Darktrace |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Darktrace Cyber AI Loop helps users reduce risk and harden security. The Darktrace Cyber AI Loop is built on continuous feedback and an interconnected understanding of the enterprise. Darktrace monitors and protects people and digital assets across the IT ecosystem. Self-Learning AI learns normal patterns of life to identify the malicious behaviors that don't belong. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk and long-term infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
2k-3k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
10
Latest funding date
March 25, 2020
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2013
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Flowmon |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
50-100 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2007
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Bitdefender Network Traffic Security Analytics |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
2k-3k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
2
Latest funding date
December 1, 2017
Last funding amount
$100-250m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2001
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Sources
AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in network traffic analysis (NTA) tools:
Network Traffic Analysis Leaders
According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics
What are network traffic analysis
customer satisfaction leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current network traffic analysis customer satisfaction leaders:
Which network traffic analysis solution provides the most customer satisfaction?
AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.
While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.
- Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
- Recency is important as products are always evolving.
- Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
- older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.
What are network traffic analysis
market leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current network traffic analysis market leaders:
Which one has collected the most reviews?
AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:
- Product line revenue (when available)
- Number of reviews
- Number of case studies
- Number and experience of employees
- Social media presence and engagement
What are the most mature network traffic analysis (NTA) tools?
Which one has the most employees?
Which network traffic analysis companies have the most employees?
458 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 435 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 29 companies with >10 employees are offering network traffic analysis (nta) tools. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 40k employees. The largest company in this domain is Unisys with more than 20,000 employees. Unisys provides the network traffic analysis solution: Infolmage
Insights
What are the most common words describing network traffic analysis (NTA) tools?
This data is collected from customer reviews for all network traffic analysis companies. The most positive word describing network traffic analysis (NTA) tools is “Easy to use” that is used in 8% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 4% of all the network traffic analysis reviews.
What is the average customer size?
According to customer reviews, most common company size for network traffic analysis customers is 51-1,000 employees. Customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 52% of network traffic analysis customers. For an average IT/Tech solution, customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 22% of total customers.
Customer Evaluation
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all network traffic analysis (NTA) tools. Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Tools are most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".
Where are network traffic analysis vendors' HQs located?
Trends
What is the level of interest in network traffic analysis (NTA) tools?
This category was searched on average for 142 times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other it/tech solutions, a typical solution was searched 1.1k times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.