LiveNX vs NETSCOUT nGeniusONE comparison

BlueCat and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. BlueCat is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.3, while NETSCOUT is ranked #28 with an average rating of 8.7. BlueCat holds a 1.0% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of BlueCat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 26, 2025

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and LiveNX are key competitors in the network monitoring and analysis category. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE has the upper hand due to its deep packet inspection and detailed traffic analysis, catering to tech-heavy environments.

Features: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides deep packet inspection, NetFlow traffic analysis, and application-specific monitoring, which helps in understanding traffic patterns and diagnosing network performance. LiveNX offers real-time network monitoring, visual analytics, and a robust alerting system, enhancing operational efficiency and aiding in bandwidth optimization.

Room for Improvement: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE could improve its complex user interface, dependency on physical agents, and enhance integration of functionalities. LiveNX requires better API integrations, more robust technical support, and improved multi-tenancy capabilities, along with automated troubleshooting and predictive analytics for responsive support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides diverse deployment options including on-premises, hybrid cloud, and private cloud but relies heavily on technical support due to its complexity. LiveNX is deployed on-premises or in private cloud environments and is perceived as less complex, with highly rated customer service but needing improvements in response times and flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE faces criticism for high costs and a complex pricing model, though it offers significant ROI through reduced troubleshooting time and increased uptime. LiveNX is more affordable, offers competitive pricing, and provides similar ROI benefits via improved network visibility and faster troubleshooting.

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Categories and Ranking

LiveNX

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

33rd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (38th)

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

28th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of LiveNX is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.2%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.2%
LiveNX	1.0%
Other	97.8%

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Ashwani Bansal

Senior Solution Consultant at Orange

Network management and diagnostics improved through effective monitoring and reporting capabilities

The solution is handy. I have not used that particular feature. Maintenance is required for the system. If you want to use something on the endpoints or end-user devices, then using LiveAction LiveNX in place of other tools would be quite beneficial. The solution impacts operational costs and resources. On a scale of 1-10, I rate LiveAction LiveNX a nine.

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EdwardShim

General Manager at MOCOMSYS

Offers detailed network monitoring but requires improvement in deployment complexity and pricing

The price is really high, making it difficult for many financial companies to purchase immediately; it will take time for them to afford any budget for the purchase. The traffic data correlation feature's effectiveness with performance issues for clients remains uncertain as there are questions that need to be addressed through engineers regarding how many customers are actually using it. Regarding pricing and value for money, while the solution has the potential to save time and money for clients in the long term, monitoring solutions for performance management or network monitoring do not cause immediate damage to a company. It could lead to damage over time, but financial and management teams typically cannot see the immediate crisis. This is why many big companies Samsung and Hyundai try to build their own monitoring solutions using open-source tools and their own engineers, though it has not been successful.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"On a scale of 1-10, I rate LiveAction LiveNX a nine."

"LiveAction LiveNX provides valuable real-time and historical network traffic visualization capabilities that help monitor and analyze network performance."

"The intention and the idea of the filter is great."

"One of the valuable features is the ability to create CLI scripts on the fly to fix any issues. We were using it for QoS modeling to ensure that we were properly modeling QoS, and it basically said here is what you need to fix to get this QoS done, whether it is ACL or something else. It would either push or recommend. If you have the right credentials, you could also push. It is very good if you are a Cisco shop. It gives you reporting, latency, and bandwidth utilization for your applications, so you can do good capacity management planning. There are a lot of pieces that LiveNX can give you. It is a total NPM solution for SD-WAN."

"We provide a tool for our customers to manage their reports. It's an extremely highly featured platform capable of producing a lot of data. We spent quite a long time working with customers and LiveAction to create template reports, and they're very good and configurable. You get a lot of data if you don't configure them."

"We don't have any complaints about the software. According to my team, it's a very good tool that's very intuitive."

"All in all, LiveAction LiveNX has become an indispensable tool for maintaining and improving our network's reliability and performance, ultimately supporting our organization's goal of providing timely and dependable delivery services."

"The product has a very good graphical interface."

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

"The solution transforms packet wire data into real-time data that is actionable. It helps us with faster detection of issues and allows us to create alerts."

"This solution provides us with increased visibility while conducting IT deployments. E.g., if we have devices which have overloaded or links which have saturated, then this tool tells us exactly what is going on with that link or device. Very few tools do it at this level for things like DDoS."

"Valuable features include data threat detection, network analytics, and overall bandwidth monitoring."

"We've saved a lot of time in triaging. We have found root cause identities on packet captures and have been able to feed that information back to a specific vendor, because a lot of our technology is emerging. So, we're able to give that feedback to our vendors and have them solve the problems that they need to fix, and they have the evidence to do so."

"The stability of this product is ok."

"It is the ability to collect data and analyze it, especially key performance indicators. This is before a customer would call to the service center to complain that they have had bad coverage or a dropped call."

"With the Vprobes, we quickly identified issues on the application servers, which we normally couldn't, where it usually would be a full circle round between our NOC and server people."

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Cons

"Improved documentation and more responsive customer support can help in addressing issues faster."

"The product is weak in multi-tenancy. We have to install multiple instances of LiveAction, whereas we would like to build it once for our customers."

"The customer service and technical support of LiveAction LiveNX are rated at 4 out of 10."

"This is a horrible solution and I think everything needs to be improved."

"Maintenance is required for the system."

"Sometimes the solution does not register devices properly and that is a bug."

"The only downside to this software is the price."

"They need to create a more simplified UI."

More LiveNX cons

"There is currently less visibility or GUI to analyse the packet for troubleshooting purposes."

"here is a big issue with the special way they use InfiniStream to store data."

"There are so many pieces of their product that integrate with one another that perhaps a recommendation for improvement would be some sort of bigger overview and map to help understand how all their pieces integrate together."

"The scalability needs some work. From a probe perspective, we are limited to a certain amount of throughput on the devices themselves. Without having actual hooks into the bare metal hardware for the solutions, it's a bit of a "thumb in the air" as to when we hit our capacity or when our high watermark is."

"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."

"There are so many features that it makes it hard to know it all. You end up paying for things that you don't use and probably don't even need. It might be better if Netscout came up with a modular way to pay for what you're going to use and not pay for all of this "white elephant" without being able to take advantage of all of it."

"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."

"On a network the size of ours, the loading times seem a little extensive, 20 or 30 seconds to load up some graphs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use the free version."

"It's very expensive."

"The solution is fairly expensive compared to other products."

"The price is only for acquisition; it's not a licence."

"Licensing is flexible, it's not tied to anything else. We can easily switch up the licensing piece... Obviously, NETSCOUT is a little bit in the higher range, but it gives you value for money. You get what you pay for."

"If you are able and you are willing to use everything that Netscout provides to you, it's probably a relatively fair price. The problem is that it's such a large and such a complex tool that I'm not sure that many companies would be able to use it entirely, the way it's expected to be used."

"The product is too expensive compared to other products."

"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."

"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."

"It can be expensive, but if you have a good configuration, based on what you are looking for, it's okay, it's manageable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	37

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with LiveAction LiveNX?

The solution could be enhanced by implementing custom patterns for each customer.

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What is your primary use case for LiveAction LiveNX?

The customers use LiveAction LiveNX for network monitoring and management purposes.

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What advice do you have for others considering LiveAction LiveNX?

I work as an integrator with LiveAction LiveNX. Most customers prefer deploying it on premises rather than in the cloud. The advanced diagnostics capabilities, including flow-based surveillance and...

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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?

Regarding its high price, I give NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a seven.

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Also Known As

LiveNX

NETSCOUT nGenius, nGeniusONE

Overview

LiveNX enables real-time network monitoring with a graphical interface, offering detailed reports and advanced integration for comprehensive analysis and efficient network management.

LiveNX provides intuitive tools for real-time issue identification and resolution, leveraging advanced integration with platforms like Cisco SD-WAN to enhance network performance analysis. Through features such as visual analytics and QoS modeling, LiveNX supports capacity management planning and operational efficiency, although it requires improvements in pricing, resource efficiency, and web interface functionality. Users value its insights into traffic patterns, enabling optimization and proactive issue resolution.

What are the key features of LiveNX?

Real-Time Monitoring: Facilitates immediate issue identification.
Graphical Interface: Enhances user experience with detailed visualization.
Integration Capabilities: Supports platforms like Cisco SD-WAN for comprehensive analysis.
Visual Analytics: Provides insights into traffic patterns.
QoS Modeling: Aids in planning and maintaining service quality.
Custom Templates: Offers personalized network management tools.

What benefits should users look for?

Proactive Issue Resolution: Enables early detection and solving of network problems.
Comprehensive Analysis: Assists in understanding and managing network performance.
Operational Efficiency: Enhances overall network management processes.
Traffic Optimization: Improves service quality and network utilization.

Industries use LiveNX to monitor and troubleshoot network performance, manage traffic, and ensure QoS across on-premises and cloud environments. It is particularly valued for its ability to visualize and optimize network traffic, which is crucial for maintaining service quality.

BlueCat

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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Tampa Electric, Digital First Media, Allscripts, Boxwood Technology

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