Auvik for Startups: Editor's Take

Auvik is a cloud-based network management and monitoring platform. It automatically discovers devices, maps network topology in real time, monitors performance and availability, backs up device configurations, and offers traffic analysis and SaaS and cloud monitoring, and it is popular with MSPs and mid-market IT teams. The praise is the automatic network discovery and topology mapping, which eliminates the manual documentation that network teams dread, along with overall ease of use and visibility. The common criticism is that it can misidentify devices and require manual correction, and that the per-billable-device model gets costly on larger networks. The 14-day free trial connects to a real network and shows the auto-generated topology and monitoring within minutes, which is the fastest way to judge the value. For a startup whose network is growing past what one person can keep in their head, Auvik turns an undocumented, hard-to-troubleshoot network into a mapped, monitored one, and the trial lets you see that on your own infrastructure.