FNT Command vs Kentik Network Capacity Planning

FNT Command is a centralized platform for planning, documenting, and managing enterprise IT, data center, and telecommunications infrastructure. Its digital model brings networks, applications, hardware, and services together with their relationships and dependencies. The web-based IT Management solution supports multiple clients, languages, and users. The C base module includes a library of more than 70,000 predefined configuration items, plus planning, accessory and lifecycle management, and standard-format imports. Coverage spans data center facilities, hardware, software, networking, power, and air conditioning. Cable management provides end-to-end visibility for fault finding and expansion planning. Role-based dashboards, visualizations, reports, simulations, and dependency maps support analysis. Integration extensions list REST API access and interfaces including ServiceNow CMDB, Cisco DNA, VMware vCenter, Nokia NFM-P, Infosim Stablenet, and ticketing APIs; the API supports REST or SOAP and read and write access. Plans are billed annually per user: Asset Inventory is €99 a month, Server & Applications and Telco Network & Services are each €149 a month, Data Center Management is €199 a month, and Cable & Connectivity is €319 a month. No free plan is listed.

Kentik Network Capacity Planning is a cloud service for network and infrastructure teams planning bandwidth across interfaces, WAN links, data centers, and cloud interconnects. It reports link capacity, utilization, and performance, then uses SNMP interface metrics and historical traffic to forecast daily bandwidth needs and project link runout. Automatically generated baselines help reveal unusual traffic and bandwidth hogs. Kentik correlates SNMP with NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and BGP routing context, with visibility across data centers and AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Forecasts support WAN right-sizing and connectivity cost planning. Custom thresholds and automated notifications can warn before overload causes downtime. Integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and the listed cloud providers. The SaaS-native product offers API and web access. A 30-day trial is available; Pro starts at $2,000 per month billed annually, with 50 users and stated retention periods.