Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs Corelight Open NDR comparison

Auvik and Corelight are both solutions in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category. Auvik is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.7, while Corelight is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.5. Auvik holds a 4.4% mindshare in NTA, compared to Corelight’s 6.6% mindshare. Additionally, 99% of Auvik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Corelight users who would recommend it.

Auvik Network Management (ANM)

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 22, 2026

Corelight Open NDR and Auvik Network Management compete in the network management and security space. Corelight Open NDR has an edge in network visibility and security analytics, while Auvik excels in ease of monitoring and management.

Features: Corelight Open NDR is known for its real-time threat analysis, comprehensive protocol support, and advanced network detection capabilities. On the other hand, Auvik Network Management excels with network automation, asset tracking, and performance management which enhance operational efficiency.

Room for Improvement: Corelight Open NDR could enhance user-friendliness in setup and consolidate its customer support structure. Auvik's improvements could include more advanced security features, deeper network traffic insights, and integration with a broader range of platforms to enhance its robustness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Corelight Open NDR provides flexible deployment options with robust support focused on security needs. Auvik offers straightforward cloud-based deployment with excellent customer service integration, simplifying network management tasks.

Pricing and ROI: Corelight Open NDR has a higher upfront cost due to advanced security capabilities but offers great threat visibility value. Auvik provides a more moderate pricing model with operational savings, offering a strong ROI for ease of use and management.

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Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs. Corelight Open NDR

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Categories and Ranking

Auvik Network Management (ANM)

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

216

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (4th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), Network Troubleshooting (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th)

Corelight Open NDR

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Detection and Response (NDR) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category, the mindshare of Auvik Network Management (ANM) is 4.4%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Corelight Open NDR is 6.6%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Auvik Network Management (ANM)	4.4%
Corelight Open NDR	6.6%
Other	89.0%

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

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John Adeyemi

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer at TIGER LOGIC

Unified monitoring has provided real-time visibility and simplified network troubleshooting

One area of Auvik Network Management (ANM) that could be improved is that once it discovers network devices, the naming at times is confusing. Auvik Network Management (ANM) does not always bring out the hostname and instead brings out a generic name, which I then need to change. If Auvik Network Management (ANM) could improve this aspect so that when it discovers devices, it correctly retrieves the hostname every time, it would eliminate the need to edit each hostname, especially on PCs and printers. The GUI is fine. Auvik Network Management (ANM) has a level of access control where I can manage access and control user access to Auvik Network Management (ANM) portal. The GUI is acceptable for me. Gaining instant visibility into my network health with Auvik Network Management (ANM) is easy because from the setup, it is straightforward. For instance, I manage different sites, so all I need is to install Auvik Network Management (ANM) collector on any server in the environment. Once I install the collector, I automatically start discovering devices. The beauty of Auvik Network Management (ANM) is that it separates devices into tabs for routers, switches, wireless, computers and hosts, and others. At times it might not categorize some devices properly, but I can move them to the right sub-interfaces. In terms of visibility, it is very easy and fast compared to other management solutions I have used. Most other solutions are agentless, so they do not discover much and you might need to add them manually. With Auvik Network Management (ANM), I do not need to add anything manually as it discovers and updates automatically. Using Auvik Network Management (ANM) is mostly easy. I do not have any challenges. In terms of usability, it is fine. The visibility it provides is top-notch. Deployment is also easy. The only suggestion I would make is to make some of the fonts on the images on the topology bolder. Outside that, Auvik Network Management (ANM) is fine because from Auvik Network Management (ANM) management plane, I can push configurations to my devices, do backups, and many other things. Auvik Network Management (ANM) provides a network map along with its dashboard that gives me a real-time picture of my network. I have tested the intelligence myself by adding a new device on the network and after some minutes, seeing Auvik Network Management (ANM) update its topology. Even down to VPN and SSL site-to-site VPN access to other branches, Auvik Network Management (ANM) pulls out all these connections. When I have a new engineer on my team, I tell them to look at the topology, which is the network topology there. There is no need to draw with draw.io or Visio. It is Auvik Network Management (ANM). Using the network map and dashboard in Auvik Network Management (ANM) to gain real-time visibility into my network is somewhat easy. If Auvik Network Management (ANM) could work on making the pictures bolder, it would help considerably. Sometimes I need to open the topology in another tab and put it on another screen to make it bolder. If Auvik Network Management (ANM) could enhance the pictures to make them more bold, it would go a long way.

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Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Network visibility has transformed how we detect nation state threats and protect critical industry

Before Corelight recently started pushing some of the agentic features, querying at times could be a little difficult, depending on your mastery of log scale. However, I think with a lot of the artificial intelligence that they are building in, it is getting a lot easier to query in the platform. I would definitely encourage them to continue down that path where anybody can hop into the platform and start running queries, whether it is a simple instruction like I want this, and an artificial intelligence process can actually build the query and do it. I think that would be super powerful. Cyber skill sets are in high demand, and there is a huge backlog in cyber talent. We cannot fill all the positions we need. The easier we can make these cyber systems for people to pick up and be effective on, I think is really key. Explainability of data is hyper important. In the past few artificial intelligence related updates we have gotten from Corelight, that has been one of the first questions our team has asked every time or that I have asked: show me what the model is doing, show me how it came to this analysis. Within Investigator platform, they are able to walk through and see exactly what data the artificial intelligence pulled from where and why it did what it did as far as making its suggestions. They have definitely built their system with artificial intelligence in mind up front, and having that openness as one of the key features of any of their artificial intelligence and machine learning processes in the platform is important. The issue with black boxes is obviously hallucinations from artificial intelligence and just not being able to trace to ground truth. When we are talking about these cyber incidents and being able to do forensics, you need to be able to pinpoint and tie everything together, and black boxes really obscure that and prevent you from doing so. Corelight has done a really good job of making sure that everything is explainable and everything is mapped when it comes to leveraging any of their artificial intelligence features.

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Pros

"Clients appreciate the fact that they don't have to use multiple tools to get all these different projects to become a little bit more automated."

"If we get an Internet outage or device goes down, it really helps gain better visibility as to what's happening with our different branch offices and to know if there's a potential issue that might mean I need to get in the car and drive down."

"Auvik's email alerts are convenient because we're always monitoring email, and it's easier to receive the alerts in your inbox."

"Auvik Network Management (ANM) has reduced my meantime to resolution by 80%, because while 20% is my hard work, Auvik helps me with the remaining 80%."

"The time-to-value was instantaneous, and once we got the deployment done, it immediately allowed us to better support networks in a proactive manner."

"My team has a lot of different needs and they will use it for monitoring server performance issues and the like. But the most important functionality for me, over the years, has been port mapping when I'm trying to figure out where a network has stopped responding."

"Its network discovery capabilities are pretty good. It kind of spiders out and detects pretty much everything on the network, e.g., things that we are using and not using anymore. Its network discovery capabilities allow me to detect these things so I can track them down and shut them off."

"The solution provides detailed device information, including serial numbers, configurations, IP, warranty status, and when the device was purchased. This is very helpful when it comes to replacing old devices."

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"Corelight is easy to use."

"Technical support seems to be good."

"Our company has seen massive improvements in cybersecurity position for our clients."

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

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

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

"Corelight makes much easier the remediation of cyber attacks; instead of facing a chaotic amount of logs, Corelight provides correlated metrics that allow pivoting to find, in seconds, all the data related to an alert, detection, or asset."

"Corelight Open NDR has had a positive impact on my company, providing visibility as the Suricata engine can scan huge volumes of traffic, including north-south and east-west, revealing signatures and exposures I was not expecting and enabling me to catch them with Suricata alerts."

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Cons

"The map would be the first thing I would like to see improved because sometimes the maps get really odd-looking and the automated placement of things on the map, devices on the map is sometimes not right. In fact, I was just looking at the map and something got moved. I'm sure it didn't get moved, it's just that Auvik realized it was supposed to go somewhere else. So the map could be better if there was a little bit of manual manipulation that you could do."

"They can definitely build more alerts."

"We schedule backups in the middle of the night, and a high volume of data passes through our networks during those backups because it backs up everything for a couple of hours. That generates alerts in Auvik's monitoring systems saying that these network ports are at 99 percent utilization because they're being maxed out. I'd like to have a way to mute alerts during these hours. There's no way to whitelist this activity within a set period. I want to be able to tell Auvik not to send me alerts about high utilization on these ports between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m."

"We use a service called Tailscale, a peer-to-peer private networking tool. My biggest issue with Auvik was getting it to scan devices across the Tailscale network. I suspect it's not supported there. That would be a valuable extension for us."

"Sometimes it's a little bit slow to load, but I can't think of anything else that could be improved."

"Some improvements in the spacing on the network map would be good."

"The actual adding of networks, systems, and everything like that is fairly easy, but the problem that I have is getting the metrics out. Specifically, if you go to the Auvik webpage, sign in, and go through the alerts and everything else, they don't offer any plasma display with a red light, green light, or stop light indicating this device is in an error state, down, etc. To get around this, we have to use their API. I had to code an entire interface to work around that lack of information."

"The user interface is not intuitive."

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

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

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

"It's an expensive solution and the price could be reduced."

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

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

"Before Corelight recently started pushing some of the agentic features, querying at times could be a little difficult, depending on your mastery of log scale."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For us, it has been good. I do not get too much into the pricing side. We are an MSP, so we have a number of clients, and we are utilizing Auvik as a way for us to be able to better manage and support our clients. The more clients we bring into Auvik, the better the pricing, so we have been happy with how it is."

"I'm unfamiliar with other network monitoring applications, as I've been using Auvik for so long, but it is one of the more expensive solutions. However, we have used the product to troubleshoot different issues. For example, one of our clients had an issue where their phones were constantly going down, and nobody could figure out the problem. We put Auvik on the network and found a loop in their switches, so it simplifies our lives, increases resolution speed, and makes us look like competent technicians."

"The billing is excellent. The way they bill it, in most environments, it's not that expensive. The billing is very cost-effective."

"Its licensing is very fair. The devices that stand to gain the most benefit from this product are the ones that are billed. In the case of routers, switches, and firewalls, I won't necessarily have the ability to put a management agent on them to gather errors and activity logs. This type of solution is a requirement for me to properly monitor and manage these devices. The devices that aren't being billed are workstation servers, etc. For those devices, I can put agents on them to monitor their health. It has a fair billing structure."

"The pricing is pretty reasonable for what we get. It's billed by certain, core network devices that it monitors, but I'm not billed for all the devices it monitors. For example, wireless access points and small things like that, throughout the network, are not billed."

"I don't work in the finance department, so I'm not familiar with the pricing details; however, I know some clients declined Auvik due to the pricing, so they found it expensive. Other clients have adopted it, so they think it's worth the cost."

"I would love to be able to get into the tier with the sys logging and the NetFlow/sFlow. That tier is a little bit expensive for us. If that could come down a little bit in price, we would be using that everywhere."

"As an individual IP company, Auvik is a little bit pricey. It is a little expensive, but as an MSP owner, I have a small side business. So, I'm an Auvik customer in that sense too. In that, I think it's reasonable to pay $10 to $15 a device or less depending on the endpoint. For the amount of capability that it has, it is very reasonably priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	155
Midsize Enterprise	32
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auvik?

I am from the technical department, so the pricing, setup cost, and licensing aspects have been managed by the management.

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What needs improvement with Auvik?

Auvik Network Management (ANM) can be improved with better reporting options. While there are options for reporting, having more clarity would be helpful, along with more advanced analytics and mor...

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What is your primary use case for Auvik?

Our main use case for Auvik Network Management (ANM) is to monitor and manage the client networks, helping us to track the network devices and identify issues quickly to monitor the performance and...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Corelight?

I have a fortunate experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Corelight Open NDR, as being a principal architect, I get to sit outside of that conversation and just choose the best prod...

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What needs improvement with Corelight?

Corelight Open NDR does not need any improvements or additional features in the next releases. The product is excellent at what it does, and I believe what they have done with it, taking an open-so...

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What is your primary use case for Corelight?

I have been using Corelight Open NDR solution for approximately three years. I leverage the Suricata engine heavily for alerting on indicators of compromise as my main use case for this solution.

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Overview

Auvik Network Management offers competitive pricing for essential network and infrastructure device management, providing robust features valued by enterprises.

Auvik Network Management delivers comprehensive network visibility and management through intuitive auditing, alerting, and discovery functionalities. It eases troubleshooting, automates configuration backups, and includes a user-friendly interface for effective monitoring and management. With real-time alerts and customizable notifications, IT operations are streamlined, while remote access capabilities enhance time efficiency. ANM supports integration with other platforms, effectively maintaining device inventories and visualizing network topology.

What are the key features of Auvik Network Management?

Auditing: Offers comprehensive network audits, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
Network Discovery: Simplifies the process of identifying network components.
Alerting Modules: Provides real-time alerts and customizable notifications.
Configuration Backups: Automates backups, safeguarding configurations.
Remote Access: Streamlines network management from any location.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating Auvik Network Management?

Enhanced Network Visibility: Offers detailed insights into network operations.
Time Efficiency: Remote access and automated features save valuable time.
Proactive Issue Identification: Real-time monitoring aids in identifying issues quickly.
Integration Support: Works cohesively with other platforms, easing management.
Operational Efficiency: Automates management tasks for improved productivity.

In industries such as IT management and network administration, Auvik Network Management is predominantly utilized for overseeing and maintaining network infrastructures across multiple locations. It offers capabilities for monitoring network topology, receiving alerts on device downtimes, and managing performance metrics. Users employ its features for proactive issue identification, and auditing, helping maintain oversight of networks containing switches, routers, and firewalls. Auvik provides remote access and automated backups, which contribute to enhanced operational efficiency and network visibility.

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Corelight Open NDR delivers rapid deployment, essential insight, and data for cybersecurity. Known for ease of use, cost-effectiveness, and open-source Zeek code, it enhances security by streamlining traffic monitoring and integrating with threat feeds.

Corelight Open NDR offers organizations enhanced network security and visibility, utilizing physical sensors in addition to cloud, virtual, and software variants. It supports incident response with packet capture sampling, monitoring internet, data center, and LAN traffic while facilitating east-west traffic identification. Despite its complexity, users suggest architectural simplifications and a graphical interface to boost usability and reduce costs. Features like Smart PCAP and service catalogs contribute positively, but an interactive interface with more seamless feature access is desired.

What Are Corelight Open NDR's Key Features?

Quick Deployment: Allows rapid implementation in varied environments.
Comprehensive Insight: Offers in-depth data and visibility for effective cybersecurity.
Ease of Handling: Designed for simplicity and cost-efficiency in complex networks.
Open-Source Zeek Code: Provides transparency and flexibility in operations.
Integrated Threat Feeds: Streamlines threat detection and analysis.
Suricata IDS: Enhances existing security frameworks effectively.
Custom Dashboards: Enables tailored task-specific visualizations.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Cost-Effectiveness: Delivers impressive cybersecurity capabilities at a competitive price.
Scalability: Offers solutions from physical to cloud-based implementations.
Enhanced Security: Strengthens incident response and threat detection efforts.
Ease of Use: Simplifies complex security processes for improved efficiency.

Primarily utilized by organizations to bolster network security, Corelight Open NDR is deployed in various sectors to increase visibility and streamline incident response. Its deployment spans physical, cloud, virtual, and software models, focusing on comprehensive packet capture sampling for effective traffic monitoring. Across industries, it serves managed services by identifying lateral network traffic, optimizing internet, data center, and LAN performance.

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