N-able N‑central vs. Spiceworks MSP Comparison


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The company is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years. 4,254 Ratings Visit Website Auvik Auvik's cloud-based network monitroing and management software gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. You get complete network visibility and control. Real-time network mapping & inventory means you'll always know exactly whats where, even as your users move. Automated config backup & restore on network devices means you'll mitigate network risk with no manual effort. And deep network traffic insights is a game changer. Whether you are a corporate IT professional or a Managed Service Provider, Auvik has a simple, out of the box solution for you and your team that only take minutes to deploy. 675 Ratings Visit Website ManageEngine OpManager OpManager is a network management tool geared to monitor your entire network. Ensure all devices operate at peak health, performance, and availability. The extensive network monitoring capabilities lets you track performance of switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses, and firewalls. Monitor the finer aspects of your network: Hardware monitoring enables CPU, memory, and disk monitoring, for efficient. performance of all devices. Perform seamless faults and alerts management with real-time notifications and detailed logs for quick issue detection and resolution. Achieve network automation, with workflows enabling automated diagnostics and troubleshooting actions. Advanced network visualization-including business views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards give admins an at-a-glance view of network status. 250+ pre-built reports covering metrics like device performance, network usage, uptime, facilitate capacity planning and improved decision-making. 1,631 Ratings Visit Website Site24x7 ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide. 909 Ratings Visit Website Domotz Domotz is an IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Software on a mission to provide all service providers, MSPs, integrators, and enterprises with affordable network monitoring software that enables you to work smarter, build customer loyalty, and solve problems faster than ever. Domotz enables the complete solution to cost-effectively manage and monitor your customers’ networks with a plug-and-play setup, a friendly UX, and a comprehensive feature set accessible from any desktop browser or mobile device. Monitor any network and IT infrastructure with our powerful, affordable, user-friendly network monitoring software. All the features you need to manage and monitor your IT infrastructure proactively. 281 Ratings Visit Website PathSolutions TotalView PathSolutions TotalView network monitoring and troubleshooting software bridges the gap between NETWORK MONITORING and TROUBLESHOOTING RESOLUTION telling you WHEN, WHERE and WHY network errors occur. PathSolutions TotalView continuously monitors and tracks the performance of every device and every link in your entire network, going deeper than other solutions by collecting error counters, performance data, configuration information and connectedness. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes all of this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. This means that complex problems can be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster. 43 Ratings Visit Website AdRem NetCrunch NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on-prem, self-hosted in the cloud, or mixed. 156 Ratings Visit Website Addigy Addigy is the the only Apple Device Management platform that lets IT admins manage Apple devices in real-time, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS and tvOS devices. Our cloud-based multi-tenant platform combines MDM with live agent capabilities to manage and secure your Apple ecosystem — whether you’re managing 100 devices or 10,000. Addigy Guarantees Your Apple Success! How? Let us show you: • Real-time monitoring and management of all your Apple devices. • Secure user onboarding, fully automated. Deploy a new Mac in less than 5 minutes. • Custom compliance support to enforce policies for both groups and individual devices. • Easy software updates. Report, configure, and deploy all OS and third-party software updates. • Instant remote access to macOS devices for fast troubleshooting and issue resolution. Everything your team needs for optimal Apple management—and nothing you don’t. 260 Ratings Visit Website ManageEngine Endpoint Central ManageEngine Endpoint Central is built to secure the digital workplace while also giving IT teams complete control over their enterprise endpoints. It delivers a security-first approach by combining advanced endpoint protection with comprehensive management, allowing IT teams to manage the entire endpoint lifecycle, all from a single console. With automated patching across Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,000+ third-party applications, it ensures vulnerabilities are mitigated before attackers can exploit them. Its next-gen antivirus (NGAV) feature, powered by AI-driven behavioural detection, provides 24/7 protection against ransomware, malware, and zero-day threats. Endpoint Central further strengthens enterprise defenses with a broad set of security capabilities, including vulnerability assessment and mitigation, peripheral device control, data loss prevention, application control, endpoint privilege management, encryption with FileVault and BitLocker, and browser security. 2,506 Ratings Visit Website
About Join the thousands of MSPs and IT professionals who use N-able™ N-central® to remotely monitor and manage devices and complex networks. Key features include: • Monitor almost any device, including support for Windows, Linux, and macOS • Gain complete insight across your network and cloud services without the need for extra network monitoring software • Create automated patch management policies to ensure devices are up to date • Streamline your workflow with drag-and-drop scripting in automation manager—no need to write a line of code • Provide remote support across devices and platforms with the integrated Take Control feature • Integrate your existing PSA software or use N-able MSP Manager to manage tickets and billing • Manage security with integrated backup, EDR, AV, and disk encryption • Available as an on-premises or hosted cloud solution to fit your business	About With a little know-how, you can make Spiceworks your mission control for all the networks you serve. Spiceworks allows you to collect network info from all your client sites (over secure HTTPS), then consolidate and manage it all from one single, convenient spot! After a quick setup in Spiceworks, each of your clients can have their very own custom user portal to submit help desk tickets, and they’ll all get funneled to your central Spiceworks installation. The multi-site help desk management capabilities provide each client with their own Active Directory authentication for security. You can also easily browse all your open help tickets in the same place, auto-assign tickets to your team based on client, create detailed reports, and more! IT’s on the go! Open, close, assign, and even respond to help desk tickets right from your mobile device, all with a few simple text commands. Now you can manage all client requests whether you’re onsite, at lunch, or even on the golf course!
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience IT service providers and managed service providers (MSPs)	Audience Businesses and organizations searching for a central hub solution for running a help desk
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Reviews/Ratings Overall 3.6 / 5 ease 4.1 / 5 features 4.0 / 5 design 4.1 / 5 support 3.7 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
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Company Information N-able Founded: 2014 United States www.n-able.com/products/n-central-rmm	Company Information Spiceworks Founded: 2006 United States www.spiceworks.com/free-managed-service-platform-software/
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Categories Antivirus Endpoint Management Help Desk IT Asset Management IT Infrastructure Monitoring IT Management IT Service ITSM Mobile Device Management (MDM) MSP Network Management Network Mapping Network Monitoring Network Security Network Troubleshooting Patch Management Remote Desktop Remote Support RMM Server Management Server Monitoring	Categories IT Infrastructure Monitoring MSP RMM
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Integrations Acronis Automation BrightGauge Control D DeskDay HaloPSA IT Portal ITBoost ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus MyGlue N-able DNS Filtering N-able EDR Network Glue N‑able Passportal Rewst ScalePad ScalePad Backup Radar ScalePad Lifecycle Manager Simplesat ThreatAware ZIRO Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations	Integrations Acronis Automation BrightGauge Control D DeskDay HaloPSA IT Portal ITBoost ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus MyGlue N-able DNS Filtering N-able EDR Network Glue N‑able Passportal Rewst ScalePad ScalePad Backup Radar ScalePad Lifecycle Manager Simplesat ThreatAware ZIRO Show More Integrations View All 3 Integrations
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