NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs eG Enterprise comparison

eg Innovations and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. eg Innovations is ranked #50 with an average rating of 8.5, while NETSCOUT is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.5. eg Innovations holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of eg Innovations users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

eG Enterprise and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE compete in the IT monitoring solutions category. eG Enterprise has the upper hand in pricing and support, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is stronger in features for complex networks.

Features: eG Enterprise provides single console monitoring for various infrastructure elements, ease of configuration, and quick test implementation. Its reporting capabilities and troubleshooting tools offer insights into end-user experiences. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is known for deep packet inspection, packet capture, and network analytics, which allow for real-time data drilling and historical performance analysis through advanced network analysis tools.

Room for Improvement: eG Enterprise could enhance its interface for navigation and dashboard customization, adjust pricing, and expand monitoring for containerized services. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE may improve product integration, simplify user experience, and adopt a modular pricing model. Its complexity and reliance on physical agents are noted for improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: eG Enterprise, primarily deployed on-premises, is praised for proactive and personalized customer service. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, deployed on-premises and in hybrid clouds, receives commendation for its knowledgeable support staff. Both solutions provide excellent customer service but eG Enterprise has an edge due to personalized support.

Pricing and ROI: eG Enterprise offers significantly lower pricing than competitors with flexible licensing options, leading to high ROI through reduced service requests. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, though more costly, provides substantial value in reliability and support. Its comprehensive licensing approach provides value but is less competitive in pricing. Both solutions contribute to ROI by decreasing operational costs.

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Categories and Ranking

eG Enterprise

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

50th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (38th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (44th)

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

19th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of eG Enterprise is 0.3%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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reviewer802371

Service Assurance, Senior Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Great visibility, easy to set up, and has very responsive technical support

The visibility and the ability to monitor user behavior are very useful to us. So is the fact that we have diagnostic capabilities. We divided the usage of these two parts - one for our business team and one for our support team where they can see the availability, performance, and application or service updates from a customer perspective. We appreciate that the team can understand the issue from our application, database, code, data integration, et cetera. We like that two different teams can use it and it fits each of their individual needs. Sometimes when we face issues with the new technologies or very old technologies where we cannot enhance the service, they move to work with us directly and start doing some development on this area which is very good for us. The initial setup is pretty simple. The solution can scale. Technical support has been great.

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Ruslan Melnyk

Business Unit Manager at BAKOTECH

Useful for network performance monitoring

My manager can explain the use cases attached to the product. I am a unit leader in my company, and I don't sell the product directly to our partners or customers. In my company, I manage certain processes and a team while building, developing, and providing them with a direction for the market. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a good solution for network performance monitoring since it is not cloud-based. My company sells NETSCOUT nGeniusONE in eight to ten countries. I think the solution is not good for capacity planning, but it is better to help find problems in applications because not every infrastructure is good at managing working applications. I think it is a solution meant for applications. The tool is useful for solving problems attached to applications. The tool's real-time network monitoring capability was used when the product was more reactive. In our company, if we use real-time monitoring, then we need to deal with raw traffic. In our company, if we don't see any problem in the real-time systems, we have the possibility to rely on the tool since it acts like a time machine for us, which can allow us to get back to the areas of problem and solve them. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. For many users, it can be a good monitoring system that can be scaled up in the future. I think it is a good product to start with when working systems in an environment. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is another tool used to manage raw traffic, and I find it to integrate well into our customers' network. I am not using it actively on the system. I use the tool for network packet brokers. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

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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

"Sometimes when we face issues with the new technologies or very old technologies where we cannot enhance the service, they move to work with us directly and start doing some development on this area which is very good for us."

"User session details"

"Its ability to monitor failures and to restart a Windows service when it fails."

"The ability to see what the end user response is, so I can get a better understanding of what the end user is seeing when they connect to the Citrix servers."

"What I like about eG Enterprise is that it's easy to use. It's a simple product. You can get up to seventy-five to eighty percent of the required information based on real user experience and diagnostics."

"The topology view which provides a visual representation of a service and quickly allows identification of errors or degraded performance."

"EG monitors all infrastructure elements (all OS, all database, storage, network, and web server) from a single console."

"The auto-configuration or auto-Thresholding is very important because it saves a phenomenal amount of labor and setup costs and time."

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"The installation process is straightforward."

"The fact that it's able to capture and store packets from the wires is very useful for troubleshooting with our vendors, when issues do come up. It's valuable that we have that overall data for them."

"The details it provides are among the most valuable features; the ability to drill down and get to the packet level."

"The best feature is when we have it connected permanently via TAPs. That enables us to constantly collect data and then we can go back in time... To be able to rewind, back in time, and see the problem as it happened, is very helpful."

"The most valuable feature is visibility."

"We build application dashboards and performance indexes for locations."

"It helps us get to the root cause quickly. It helps us find massive error codes, then we drill down on that error code, knowing that is the source of our problem."

"It has versatility to correlate different traffic types and performance management statistics."

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Cons

"The solution should improve on the security side and include some more API integrations into wider application platforms."

"The interface could be improved as it is not real intuitive. It is not user-friendly."

"eG Enterprise's licensing could be cheaper. Even compared to Dynatrace, I think the price is quite expensive considering the APM functionalities, even though they have other benefits such as info monitoring."

"Their dashboards could use some improvement. The ability to customize them a bit more."

"Needs to improve the networking monitor capabilities."

"would like to see improvements in the alarm display console."

"The solution needs to enhance the management dashboards."

"The UI looks a little dated and could do with a refresh."

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"A lot of tools highlight what's going on but they don't actually pinpoint the user experience. It would be good if there were a small message or something highlighting what the user experience is like and any degradation that's actually occurring."

"Trying to set up dashboards is hard to figure out at times, if you don't do it every day. It's not really intuitive to set them all up... If there were a wizard to take us through, step-by-step, creating dashboards and the like, that would be really helpful."

"The stability is only fair. It goes down a lot."

"The solution could do more for security. It should offer more security-related features."

"This is a typical thing, but every time they do a major code upgrade, we get hit with some nasty bugs. Some of them literally stop the whole platform from collecting traffic data. They should really do more Q&A on the software stability before release."

"It could have an easier to understand interface."

"Our biggest area of concern right now, supporting the applications, is that while NETSCOUT does a good job of monitoring the network and the applications, we need more visibility into system health and performance monitoring."

"We would like better end-to-end data flows. This is something that my users always complain about, as they don't know what the data flows are on the network. We would like to know every point along the line."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You may get some monitoring products with certain licensing you may own. Some of these can take ages to configure and setup, along with needing a license to drive the software."

"We paid about 300,000 Saudi Riyal for the solution and it was quite affordable compared to the competition."

"They are aligned with other enterprise solutions."

"The cost for eG Enterprise is almost $100,000 for one hundred and fifty services. It's subscription-based and the payment is yearly."

"It'd be nice if the price was lower. That would be an improvement."

"There are two licensing options: Perpetual and SaaS-based. The main offering, in terms of what eG prefers to offer, is the subscription-based rather than the Perpetual License. The price could be cheaper."

"It is not expensive."

"eG Enterprise is much cheaper than the other products it competes with."

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"It is very expensive, but it's well worth the money."

"Cost is probably the biggest drawback. Compared to some of the newer vendors that have popped up in the space, it's definitely more on the expensive side... [But] it's been able to keep its value, even in the face of the cheaper competition."

"It is a little overall pricey and expensive, but you get what you pay for."

"Their pricing is very competitive with other solutions... But what I like about NETSCOUT's licensing is that it's shared across all their platforms. They don't create a new licensing scheme for every one of their products. So for nGeniusONE, you buy a certain license level, and it works on all of their products."

"The license becomes cost prohibitive very quickly."

"Make sure you get the low down on your licensing and understand the licensing requirements before making a purchase, especially when it comes to an upgrade. Make sure that it suits your needs before you commit to it. For example, we purchased ATA at version 6.2.1. At that time, the licensing covered everything we need. NETSCOUT comes out with 6.2.2, stating that in order to upgrade, you had to purchase CyberStream licensing. Now that requires some additional funding from both a capital investment and a maintenance cost. That's something that should have been said, "Well, if you want these additional features, you will need to purchase these CyberStreams." Otherwise, we should be allowed to continue on the basic operations as it is now through the newer releases without being stuck."

"We have a premium customized contract for the solution."

"The biggest problem we have with this product is the expense."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

Could you please share your requirements ? There are a lot tools can be added to the list. I spent almost 6 months to test and check many tools then I select eG enterprise.

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Do you recommend eG Enterprise? Why or why not?

I feel that eG Enterprise is one of the top APM tools available on the market. Out of the solutions I have tried, it is the best for monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting of key IT servic...

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What do you like most about eG Enterprise?

eG Enterprise has a single pane of glass for observability and monitoring.

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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What do you like most about NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

The pricing is a bit high yet not overly expensive. The cost depends on the size of the customer, as sizing controls the pricing.

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Overview

eG Enterprise is a comprehensive performance monitoring tool that monitors applications, infrastructure, and networks. eG Enterprise offers a complete performance management solution that delivers diagnosis and automated IT auditing, and offers extensive reporting to test application latencies, storage hotspots, network failures, server incompetencies, bottlenecks, user experience (UX) concerns, and more.

eG Enterprise monitors an organization’s total IT ecosystem and applications throughout every layer and all tiers and will take a deep dive to discover where a problem began, faster than any other solution. eG Enterprise is a complete solution that thoroughly monitors the end-user relationship for just about every IT deployment available, such as cloud-based microservices applications, enterprise applications, on-premise monolithic applications, and digital workspaces.

eG Enterprise is a flexible solution and can be deployed in various circumstances, wherever the digital experience of the user needs to be managed and IT infrastructures and applications need to be monitored. eG Enterprise is effective from legacy on-premise deployments to the most cloud-centric ecosystem in the marketplace today.

eG Enterprise Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM): The solution is able to provide monitoring to discover, diagnose, and repair application performance problems so the end user is never affected.
Infrastructure monitoring: Users have full transparency to clearly visualize what is occurring with recent deployments and immediately diagnose network, database, and server problems.
Digital workspace monitoring: Workspaces are continually monitored to maintain the highest levels of productivity at all times. Users can easily monitor disconnects, logons, slowdowns, complete sessions, and more.
Enterprise application monitoring: Applications that do not perform as expected may result in significant losses for an organization. eG Enterprise is able to monitor many of today’s popular applications, such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Sharepoint, Siebel, and Office 365. Organizations are able to quickly identify underperforming applications, discover and diagnose problems, and remediate issues to ensure that optimal levels of productivity and profitability are being maintained at all times.
Cloud Monitoring: eG Enterprise provides effective monitoring for all of an organization's cloud infrastructures, including public, hybrid and private. eG Enterprise is able to facilitate the concise mapping of the relationships between tiers and discover the reasons for performance problems immediately before they reach the end user. eG Enterprise can be deployed on premises or as a SaaS-based solution.

Reviews from Real Users

“The product makes data collection easy. It's simple to set up. The algorithm is the most valuable aspect of the solution. In a few minutes after the installations, we can get insights from my technical environment. After a few minutes, I can get some valuable insights to make decisions.” - Anderson L., LatAm Presales Analyst at CLM

“Some of the best features of eG are, in terms of APM, they have complete modules between application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and even storage and network-based monitoring. The UI is also quite good. They have some standard AI-based capabilities, even though it's not quite as advanced when compared to Dynatrace. eG has some good, basic APM capabilities.” - A PeerSpot user who is a Consultant at a tech services company

eg Innovations

The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network.

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Sample Customers

20th Century Fox, Allscripts, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Aviva, AXA, Biogen, Cox Communications, Denver Health, eBay, JP Morgan Chase, PayPal, Southern California Edison, Samsung, and many more.

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