Comparing sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro

sFlowTrend is the free version of sFlowTrend-Pro. sFlowTrend is limited to analysing data from a maximum of five sFlow agents and stores one hour of data in memory. sFlowTrend-Pro does not limit the number of switches, routers, or hosts that can be monitored and stores data persistently to disk for a configurable period (default one week). sFlowTrend-Pro also supports navigation through and reporting over the whole history of data.

If you have already installed sFlowTrend and have purchased an sFlowTrend-Pro license, you can upgrade your installation by configuring your installation with your sFlowTrend-Pro license using the configuration menu.

	sFlowTrend	sFlowTrend-Pro
Industry leading sFlow support	✓	✓
Supports sFlow from switches/routers/wifi, hosts and services	✓	✓
Real-time analysis and charts	✓	✓
Reporting	✓	✓
Web client UI	✓	✓
REST API supported	✗	✓
Number of agents (switches, routers, hosts)	5	Unlimited
Data storage	Memory (volatile)	Disk (persistent)
Historical data	1 hour	Configurable (default 7 days)
History reporting and navigation	1 hour	Entire duration of historical data
Cost	Free	License fee (annual or indefinite)
Support	Community	Commercial included with license fee

Welcome

Welcome to the sFlowTrend blog.

The purpose of this blog is to provide tips for using sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro so that you get the most out of your sFlow® enabled switches, virtual switches, routers, and hosts.

The help is the definitive documentation for sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro. These blog posts are intended to address frequently ask questions and more detailed usage examples and case studies.

sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro are scalable, network and system performance analytics tools, built from the ground up to exploit the detailed data available from the popular sFlow® standard.

Both sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro identify who is using the network, for what purpose and how intensively. The web UI provides real-time, interactive charts and historical reports. In addition, sFlowTrend-Pro exposes a REST API for fully flexible data access and integration with other tools. This type of analytics is ideally suited to common management tasks such as diagnosing performance problems, identifying mis-use and abnormal traffic (eg security threats), understanding trends and accurately targeting upgrades, generating management reports.