Colasoft Capsa vs Ganglia
Colasoft Capsa
colasoft.comGanglia
ganglia.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | Colasoft Capsa | Ganglia |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · Network Monitoring | 8.9 (#6) | 8.7 (#9) |
| Integrations | The pages opened describe protocol and application analysis, but do not identify named third-party integrations. | The documentation describes integration with RRDtool for metric storage and graphs, Apache and PHP for the web frontend, and GD for pie charts. |
| Purpose | Capsa is a portable network analyzer for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting wired and wireless networks. | Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. |
| Support | Colasoft maintenance includes priority email support, free product updates, and access to prerelease products during the maintenance period. | The project profile points users to its wiki, IRC channel, and public mailing lists for community help. |
| Visualization | A matrix view presents network connections and traffic in an ellipse-style visualization. | The web frontend displays dynamic pages and historical graphs for metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, and network use. |
Plans
Colasoft Capsa
- Capsa FreeFree
- Capsa FreeFree
- Capsa Standard$295, paid once
- Capsa Professional$695, paid once
- Capsa Enterprise$995, paid once
- Capsa Enterprise$1,295, paid once
In their own words
Colasoft Capsa
Colasoft Capsa is a Windows network analyzer for monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting wired and wireless networks. The Enterprise edition captures packets in real time from local networks and can save transmitted data. It analyzes more than 1,800 protocols and sub-protocols, including VoIP, and displays packet details in Hex, ASCII and EBCDIC. Capsa can diagnose network problems and suggest solutions, monitor conversations, reconstruct packet streams and generate reports for selected items, the whole network or a particular network group. Its security analysis detects DoS and DDoS attacks, worm activity, ARP attacks, TCP port scans and suspicious conversations in real time. Users can set email or sound alerts and schedule capture once, daily or weekly. Capsa Free monitors up to 10 IP addresses, ends sessions after four hours and lacks WiFi connection monitoring. Professional is listed at $695, paid once for a single-seat perpetual license, one machine and one year of maintenance. Enterprise is $1,295, paid once and has a 30-day trial.