Batfish vs Nipper OmniSight
Batfish
batfish.orgNipper OmniSight
titania.comSide by side
| Figure | Batfish | Nipper OmniSight |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 3 |
| Spec score · Network Security Policy Management Software | 7.9 (#4) | 7.3 (#12) |
| Deployment | The project provides an all-in-one Docker container that includes Batfish and example Jupyter notebooks. | Titania distributes OmniSight as an OVA virtual machine and documents deployment using ESXi or VMware Workstation Pro. |
| Integrations | The maker documents Ansible modules for extracting and validating configuration facts and asserting network behavior in playbooks. | Titania lists integrations including Splunk, Elastic, Rapid7, Forescout, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, Git, and ServiceNow. |
| Purpose | Batfish analyzes network device configurations to find policy violations and validate network behavior. | Nipper OmniSight analyzes exported network-device configurations to find and prioritize exposure from misconfigurations, weak controls, and segmentation gaps. |
| Support | The maker directs users with questions or feature requests to its Slack community or GitHub repository. | The OmniSight knowledge base provides user guides, FAQs, troubleshooting information, and a contact link for Titania support. |
Plans
Nipper OmniSight
- ContinuousPriced on request
- IntegratedPriced on request
- StandalonePriced on request
In their own words
Batfish
Batfish is an open-source tool for analyzing network device configurations and validating network behavior. It works from configuration files, so core analysis does not require direct access to network devices. Teams can inspect deployed configurations and check planned changes before deployment. Checks cover undefined references, MTU and AAA settings, template compliance, sensitive-service reachability and expected traffic paths. Batfish can test whether end-to-end reachability survives any single-link or single-device failure, compare current and planned reachability, assess ACL or firewall changes and evaluate functional equivalence across vendors. Pybatfish provides a Python 3 SDK, and example Jupyter notebooks are available. An all-in-one Docker container bundles Batfish and notebooks. It runs on operating systems supporting Docker. Documented support includes Arista, AWS, Azure, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks and SONiC, while Aruba, Dell Force10 and Foundry have limited support.
Nipper OmniSight
Nipper OmniSight has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.