AppNeta by Broadcom vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

Broadcom and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #68, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Broadcom holds a 0.7% mindshare in NMS, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

AppNeta by Broadcom and PRTG Network Monitor are competing network monitoring solutions. PRTG Network Monitor may appeal more due to its extensive features.

Features: AppNeta by Broadcom offers end-to-end network performance monitoring, providing comprehensive insights into application delivery and network paths, ideal for enterprises requiring detailed network traffic analysis. It facilitates synthetic tests and automatic testing when issues are detected. AppNeta’s ability to perform continuous monitoring with minimal effort on the user's part allows IT teams to focus on more critical tasks. PRTG Network Monitor is known for its sensor-based monitoring, covering bandwidth, network devices, and infrastructure components out-of-the-box. It supports a broad range of sensors, offering flexibility and scalability in diverse IT landscapes, while also providing detailed visualizations and quick alerts across different systems.

Room for Improvement: AppNeta's interface could be simplified for ease of use by non-technical users. It may also improve alert customization, making it more user-friendly to tailor notifications as per specific needs. Some users might benefit from more localized support to handle region-specific technical issues. PRTG Network Monitor could enhance its scalability for extremely large-scale deployments and simplify cloud integration processes. Additionally, its interface, although efficient, could have more intuitive customization options for varying organizational needs. Advanced reporting functionalities could be expanded to cater to specific user metrics and detailed analytic requirements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppNeta by Broadcom offers a cloud-based solution that simplifies setup, minimizing the need for extensive on-premises configurations and making it accessible from any location. However, its customer support could be bolstered with more region-specific consultation services. PRTG Network Monitor provides a robust on-premises setup with comprehensive documentation, ensuring smooth deployment. The detailed customer service options during integration are highly appreciated by users who require assistance with detailed deployment strategies.

Pricing and ROI: AppNeta by Broadcom offers competitive pricing, which drives quick ROI through its effective performance monitoring. It is often considered cost-effective for enterprises seeking comprehensive tracking solutions. PRTG Network Monitor features a scalable pricing model, offering long-term value as it allows seamless addition of more monitoring capabilities over time. This scalability aligns with a sustained ROI, especially beneficial for large-scale IT environments planning for extensive future growth. The ability to integrate additional sensors as needed provides flexibility and cost efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

AppNeta by Broadcom

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

68th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

43rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (16th), DX NetOps (3rd)

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

5th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

113

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of AppNeta by Broadcom is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 3.3%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PRTG Network Monitor	3.3%
AppNeta by Broadcom	0.7%
Other	96.0%

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Featured Reviews

Cliff Chapman

Architect at Linkstatus Ltd

Excellent support, easy configuration, and a reliable tool to know what the problem is and where the problem is

They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes. Currently, when we have short-duration problems, we use a different tool, but we only use that different tool for short-duration problems. With AppNeta, as long as the problem exists for more than a few minutes, such as within 10 to 15 minutes, we can normally tell where the problem is. However, most of the problems that we deal with are intermittent. They're very rarely a permanent condition that needs to be addressed. That makes it more difficult to troubleshoot. We would look to see at least two or three events and hope they show the same results to raise our confidence that we've actually found the problem, rather than just a problem.

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madhan kumar hs

software engineer at Capgemini

Alerting precision has reduced incident response times and improved department-level network visibility

The auto-pause sensor during the maintenance window is good without any false alerts, and it prevents me from getting flooded with alerts during planned maintenance, helping department heads understand their own network usage better. It has reduced incident response time by giving clearer ownership of each alert, ensuring alerts go to the proper recipient. SNMP testers and auto-pause are among the best features of PRTG Network Monitor, which is particularly useful for different departments such as HR and finance, where alerts can be filtered accordingly. The alerting features and dashboard of PRTG Network Monitor are very helpful, especially in our industry. However, the dashboard can look cluttered on smaller screens, which is one negative aspect. PRTG Network Monitor has impacted us positively; we have stopped getting flooded with alerts during planned maintenance or unplanned outages. Compared to others, this gives specific alerts very quickly and helps department heads understand their own network usage better, thus reducing incident response time so that each alert has clear ownership.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"From a technical perspective, PathView provides an effective, reliable indicator of network availability across our widely distributed physical locations."

"Since we implemented it, we've seen multiple performance improvements, which in turn results in increases in revenue and efficiency."

"Pathview is the most valuable feature."

"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."

"With one of our federal customers, we deployed these throughout their network and found multiple cases of misconfigured routers and NICs, which allowed the customer to move to a VOIP solution."

"We have peace of mind that our redundant circuits are fully operational and ready to take VoIP calls if they are needed."

"No other company has been able to match AppNeta's capability at the same price point."

"The tool allows us to ensure the capacity, bandwidth, and packet loss of our VPN-based WAN within our thresholds end-to-end, and it is different from SNMP/NetFlow-based monitoring, which we also make use of."

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"Overall, this is a very good platform and provides value to the organization."

"We can see which fiber links have been used heavily and, if they are used heavily, we can introduce more links to particular buildings or particular areas."

"We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going."

"The initial setup was easy. We didn't have any issues with the process and everything rolled out smoothly."

"From a network point of view, we can see the state of the network, as well as bandwidth usage and downtime."

"The solution provides us with needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It gives us really good quality of service when it comes to monitoring of available space and available resources. It allows us to preempt issues before they become a problem for the business."

"You should absolutely look at this solution; it gives us everything that we need: the lightweight aspect of it on the network and the amount of information, and it's absolutely worth the money."

"Ease of set-up – it is quick and easy to add a probe and start collecting data from a device."

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Cons

"AppNeta by Broadcom needs to add more features to its dashboards. It also needs to work on providing out-of-the-box reports."

"Cloud monitoring could be better. That's one of the biggest pain points for me. I have shared this feedback with them multiple times, but they're limited to some extent. That's one area where I've seen a problem."

"They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes."

"Instead of integrating with other people, they should expand their interior capabilities."

"As you really start to grow your deployments, it does become quite expensive."

"Having to deal with configuring the end devices using a USB stick is a bit cumbersome. It would be nice if there was a better way of handling that."

"Because of the nature of how AppNeta works in terms of using bursts to depict how a network path performs, it is hard to correlate 24 hour performance 100% accurately."

"Alerting. We have so many paths in our environment that it is strictly a reactive tool, not proactive."

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"When you email the support team, they take three to seven days to respond and resolve simple issues."

"I posed this question to PRTG and they were unresponsive, so it seems like not enough customers are complaining about it or would be potentially using it."

"The only sort of limitation is the actual probes. So, if you don't have enough probes on there, you can over flip them and cause the WMI sensors and SNMP sensors to sort of overload. Sometimes, they might timeout for a minute, but they do come back."

"We've had some issues previously with the performance of the sensors. We tend to deploy quite a bit of WMI, which is quite processor-intensive, and we've found that that impacts the sensors quite a bit."

"Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky."

"The clustering aspect needs improvement, as there is a bit of confusion about you do when hit that 5000 probe mark."

"There are some vendor-specific sensors in PRTG Network Monitor, particularly for older hardware, that don't always provide consistent results."

"I would like to see Office 365 monitoring. Essentially, it doesn't do it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The small probe is probably around $3,000 and the very large probe that they make for massive data centers might be $50,000 or $60,000. It's a subscription model, so the payment is per year."

"I inherited this from a different version, and I haven't yet gone through a renewal because we had purchased three years upfront. So, to me, that still remains to be seen. Once it comes up for renewal, we'll see what happens. Especially because now it is Broadcom, it is going to change anyway."

"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."

"It's worth the money."

"We typically don't get involved in the commercial side, but the list price is probably something like $3,000 for a small probe. However, that gives all of the features that the probe can do, whether or not you use them. In the old days, up until two or three years ago, each of the separate features was a separately licensable module so that you could add things that you wanted, and you didn't have to add things that you didn't want. They've changed all that now, and everything the probe can do is a part of the base license."

"I find the solution's price to be fairly good."

"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."

"When you have a lot of devices, PRTG Network Monitor can be costly."

"Our licensing costs are 10,000 euros over three years."

"The pricing for PRTG in our case is reasonable because we have a lot of applications to monitor within PRTG. It is not that expensive."

"PRTG Network Monitor is cheap."

"The pricing is okay and it is cheaper than some competing products."

"It's an annual license that is based on the number of endpoints that we're tracking and using."

"We are using the basic PRTG that we can download for free. For now, we only need to monitor less than 100 devices. For more than 100 devices, we would need to buy a license. PRTG is much cheaper than SolarWinds."

"On a yearly basis, I believe it's between £1,200 and £1,500."

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IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

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I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Insurance Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	59
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	50

Questions from the Community

What open source tool can one use to measure bandwidth from one's upstream service provider?

One I am looking closely at is AppNeta. They have an appliance that can digest the flow and do a better job than Netflow. The other one we are using is ExtraHop. This has both a Datacenter Hig...

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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

The pricing was higher at the beginning, but the recurring licensing cost is affordable and reasonable. Overall, the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fair for our industry. They have quoted us...

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Overview

AppNeta is the leader in proactive end-user performance monitoring solutions built for the distributed digital enterprise. With AppNeta, IT and Network Ops teams can assure continuous and exceptional delivery of business-critical applications. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams essential application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.

For more information, visit www.appneta.com.

Broadcom

PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

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Ebay, Citrix, National Instruments, Marriott, AT&T, Bon-Ton, McDonald's, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, QAD

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