Corelight vs SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer comparison

Corelight and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category. Corelight is ranked #8, while SolarWinds is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.7. Additionally, 100% of Corelight users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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81% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Corelight compete in the network analysis and monitoring category. Corelight appears to have the upper hand due to its superior features, despite its higher price.

Features: SolarWinds users highlight its strong reporting and traffic monitoring capabilities. Corelight's users value its robust security features and comprehensive visibility. The primary difference is SolarWinds focuses on traffic analysis, while Corelight emphasizes security and network visibility.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest SolarWinds could enhance its scalability and integration capabilities. Corelight users seek improvements in its user-friendliness and reporting options

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolarWinds is praised for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Corelight, while also straightforward, tends to require more initial configuration and users note varying customer support experiences.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds users find it reasonably priced with good ROI. Corelight, despite higher costs, is considered worth the investment due to its advanced features.

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Categories and Ranking

Corelight

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

8th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Detection and Response (NDR) (14th)

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic ...

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

5th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

HamadaElewa

Technical Sales Manager at Spire Solutions

An expensive solution to monitor internet traffic with multiple dashboards

The huge library especially the open source link, makes it the main engine for Corelight with some enhancements in the commercial version. It has a very powerful level, such as signature-based attacks or behavioral attacks, with enhancements in the design. It is very flexible for intelligent implementations like IPs, especially between big companies and banks. Corelight is easy to understand and monitor what is going on behind the team. The solution is already integrated with other systems like Suricata, Elastic, and Microsoft tools. It's very easy to integrate signature-based or behavior-based engines. You can use Elastic for the dashboards to get it from Corelight, along with all the benefits and expandability.

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Dr. SureshHungenahally

Chief Executive Officer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Used for capacity planning and handles a variety of protocols with easy setup

We conduct network traffic analysis for a couple of key reasons. First, we look for traffic anomalies, such as unexpected increases or decreases in network traffic within specific segments. This helps us determine if the network needs to be re-architected. We also analyze peak bandwidth and bandwidth consumption across various network segments, which is crucial if someone is planning to transition to software-defined networks. The network traffic analyzer tool allows us to simulate scenarios and compare before-and-after results. Additionally, it supports traffic sources like NetFlow and SFlow, and we regularly check the quality of service using NetFlow. The tool handles a variety of protocols, such as NetFlow version 5 and version 9, JFlow, and SFlow, making it independent of the underlying technology.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is easy to deploy and easy to handle."

"It's easy to create additional dashboards specific to supporting specific tasks."

"It's an easy way for us to get visibility in a client's environment."

"The most valuable feature is the embedded IDS from Suricata."

"Corelight is easy to use."

"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."

"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."

"The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."

"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."

"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."

"We conduct network traffic analysis for a couple of key reasons. First, we look for traffic anomalies, such as unexpected increases or decreases in network traffic within specific segments. This helps us determine if the network needs to be re-architected."

"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."

"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."

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Cons

"Machine learning could be a good improvement, but it's very costly."

"They can enhance the interface of the product. They can make it more interactive and also easier to use for feature access."

"In the next release, building a graphical user interface would be helpful."

"Corelight hasn’t added features in a long time."

"The solution’s architecture is complex and difficult to understand. There are multiple machines and VMs."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."

"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."

"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."

"It can be complex to set up and configure."

"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."

"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."

"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."

"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a yearly fee and depends on what you are looking for."

"SolarWinds' pricing structure is the primary reason why some customers opt for another solution such as ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. In NTA, you are charged per port, meaning that if you have a 24-port switch you will be charged for 24 individual nodes. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, on the other hand, charges per switch, such that if you add a switch, the entire switch will count as one single node."

"We have licenses for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. In terms of pricing, its license is not that expensive versus other tools such as HP."

"We pay yearly, and we are happy with its price."

"The solution's licensing is high-priced."

"Pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is very high. I have a customer that needs the solution but doesn't have the budget for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because the problem is that you can't use the solution only. You have to buy requirements such as the SolarWinds NPM first, and some companies don't have the budget for all the required components and modules. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can cost up to $10,000, and some customers don't have that budget. Another product has all the modules that SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer has, with a very low price, that can be a replacement, which is ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. PRTG is another solution that can replace SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer."

"While the pricing is fair, it could be better."

"The licensing for this solution is based on the number of nodes."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

71%

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Questions from the Community

What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?

The two platforms take a fundamentally different approach to NDR. Corelight is limited to use cases that require the eventual forwarding of events and parsed data logs to a security team’s SIEM or ...

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What do you like most about Corelight?

It's easy to create additional dashboards specific to supporting specific tasks.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Corelight?

The solution is too expensive compared to others. If you have the technical knowledge, it's good. Corelight is a very big gap between you and others if you’re new.

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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

I have worked from 1973 with all kind of systems in large enterprises across the world. And have experience with all kind of software in monitoring from infra to end to end, it depends on the funct...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer?

The product is expensive. I rate the product’s pricing as one out of ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer?

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer could improve its flexibility and integration with AI to provide analytics beyond just showing up/down statuses and traffic volumes.

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Overview

Corelight is the most powerful network visibility solution for information security professionals. We provide real-time data that organizations use to understand, detect, and prevent cyber attacks. Our solution is built on Zeek, the powerful and widely-used open source monitoring framework.

SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer enables you to capture data from continuous streams of network traffic and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that quantify exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose.

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