Add-on packs can quickly get expensive
WhatsUp Gold is a worthy network monitoring solution with a fine track record going back to the early 1990s. Developer Ipswitch was recently acquired by Progress Software, but fear not: there’s been no dip in quality. This 2020 version brings new innovations including pulsing device icons for eye-catching alerts, facilities for uploading your own icons and improved reporting. There’s also an optional application performance add-on that can keep an eye on AWS and Azure environments, while the network traffic analysis module now provides a global map showing traffic between distributed devices.
The Premium edition we tested includes all the core features such as discovery, interactive mapping, alerting and reporting, plus cloud, network and storage monitoring. The optional modules can be added on individually, or you can move up the Total Plus version, which includes them all.