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What do you like best about Scrutinizer?

Once configured, gives a good overview of network activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scrutinizer?

Confusing interface

Difficult to customize

Virtual Appliance is handicapped compared to physical hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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If you purchase, go with the Hardware Appliance. It's much more flexible than the VM for capturing traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scrutinizer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's useful for tracking protocol usage and traffic volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Scrutinizer?

Scrutinizer is the foundation for Plixer's network traffic analytics system. It stands out in the industry by offering the most scalable solution on the market, delivering the fastest reporting, and providing the richest data context available anywhere. Role-based access automatically presents the network and security teams with the data they need to support fast, efficient network and security incident response. Scrutinizer is available as both physical and virtual appliances, as well as through a software-as-a-service cloud-based offering.

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Scrutinizer is the foundation for Plixer's network traffic analytics system. It stands out in the industry by offering the most scalable solution on the market, delivering the fastest reporting, and providing the richest data context available anywhere. Role-based access automatically presents the network and security teams with the data they need to support fast, efficient network and security incident response. Scrutinizer is available as both physical and virtual appliances, as well as through a software-as-a-service cloud-based offering.

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Plixer
Year Founded
1999
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Kennebunk, Maine
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"Scurtinizer is a top notch Netflow analyzer"
Custom dashboards and reports make a single pane of glass type view for troubleshooting network congestion using netflow. The ability to click on m...
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"Scrutinizer one of the best flow analyzer tools out there !"
Scrutinizer is able to collect flows from multitude of network devices, we use it for netflow from our RIverbed, Gigamon and Cisco Devices. Its abl...
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"Fails to deliver on big promises"
Once configured, gives a good overview of network activity.
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What do you like best about Scrutinizer?

Custom dashboards and reports make a single pane of glass type view for troubleshooting network congestion using netflow. The ability to click on most anything to drill down into details and add filters makes this product a joy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scrutinizer?

There is a bit of a learning curve. It isn't straight forward out of the box and the linux platform does take some cli know how to manage the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scrutinizer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Determining the cause of network congestion -- after receiving alerts for high interface utilization, one click to scrutinizer is all we need to find the culprit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Scrutinizer is able to collect flows from multitude of network devices, we use it for netflow from our RIverbed, Gigamon and Cisco Devices. Its able to provide detailed reports and amazing data, based on the information that it receives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scrutinizer?

If you are getting an appliance, you wont have full access to it. Over all great product, but reporting could use some polishing and advance features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Scrutinizer:

Appliance is great for enterprise grade networks, but beware you will not own the appliance and any upgrades and such will need to done by support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scrutinizer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Great troubleshooting tool. We use it daily for troubleshooting and analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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