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Metric Sensei and Auvik
Auvik is a dedicated network management platform for IT teams and managed service providers. Metric Sensei's Network Monitoring covers discovery, maps, config backups and alerts, and sits next to dashboards, an AI assistant and the websites and accounts that bring in customers.
What Auvik says it offers
- Live, automated network mapping, with inventory and documentation kept up to date.
- Automatic configuration backups with history and comparison.
- Over 64 pre-configured alerts, traffic flow analysis, NetFlow and centralised syslog.
- SaaS management with shadow IT and shadow AI discovery.
- Integrations with ConnectWise Manage, Autotask PSA, Freshdesk and ServiceNow, and AI-guided troubleshooting. Pricing is on request.
What Metric Sensei offers
- Attribution that follows each visitor to the form, call, chat or order, and sends conversions back to Google Ads, Meta and Microsoft Advertising.
- Analytics, SEO, Website Optimizer, Dashboards, an AI assistant and Network Monitoring on the same tag and sign-in.
- Agencies run every client from one sign-in, with separate data and one invoice.
- An API/MCP Gateway to every connected account, read-only by default.
- One base fee per service for the whole agency, use pooled across clients, and every data source included.
Side by side
At a glance.
| Auvik | Metric Sensei | |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | IT teams and MSPs managing networks | Multi-location businesses, MSPs and agencies that also watch websites and data |
| Discovery and maps | Live, automated mapping | Discovery by address range, LLDP and CDP maps, devices by switch port |
| Config backups | Yes, with history and comparison | Daily, with differences highlighted, for eight common vendors |
| Device setup | Not described on their site | Prepares devices for monitoring, showing every command for your approval first |
| Traffic and logs | NetFlow and centralised syslog | NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow top talkers; SNMP traps and syslog rules; Log Search over 30 days and Threat Detection, included |
| Servers, VMs, databases and clouds | Not described on their site | Hypervisors, databases, storage arrays, server hardware and AWS, Azure and Google Cloud resources, included |
| SaaS management | Yes | Not offered |
| Ticketing and PSA | ConnectWise, Autotask, Freshdesk, ServiceNow | Signed webhooks, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email and text |
| Websites and business accounts | Not described on their site | Every tracked website and connected account watched automatically |
| How you pay | On request | $25 per client a month, everything included, with usage shared across your clients |
Based on www.auvik.com, checked November 2026. Products change often; please check their site for the latest. Auvik is a trademark of its owner, who has not reviewed this page. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we will fix it.
Which fits
Both are good tools for different jobs.
Choose Auvik if
You run IT for many networks and want a dedicated network platform with SaaS management and PSA ticketing built in.
Choose Metric Sensei if
You want network monitoring in the same place as your dashboards, AI assistant, websites and business data, for your own locations or your clients'.