WhatsUp Gold alternative
A WhatsUp Gold alternative with published per-device pricing and NCM/NetFlow in one tier
WhatsUp Gold already licenses devices, not sensors. ZenPlus is the alternative when you want printed volume pricing and NetFlow + NCM in the same Professional tier.
What you get
What this ZenPlus module gives your operations team
Purpose-built workflows that map to how operators actually work — not a placeholder surface, but a real, documented part of the ZenPlus console.
- Progress WhatsUp Gold is a real on-premises monitor and already licenses devices, not sensors
- Teams look elsewhere for quote-only scaling after the 50-device starter SKUs
- Traffic analysis and configuration management sit in higher WhatsUp editions
- ZenPlus Professional puts NetFlow + NCM in the same per-device price, with printed 10/15/20/25% volume discounts
Live-system proof
- Live ZenPlus NetFlow, NCM, and operations screens were captured for this per-device comparison.
Capabilities
Everything in WhatsUp Gold alternative, organized the way you operate
Each group below is a working area of the module — from day-one setup to deep operational drill-downs.
Why teams evaluate ZenPlus next to WhatsUp
- You bought WhatsUp for device monitoring and are now buying NTA+ and configuration as the real product
- You want a printed 100/250/500-device number without a quote cycle
- You want OpenTelemetry in the same NOC as SNMP, not a second application-monitoring SKU
- Operators want the live console published on this site instead of another classic Windows operations UI
Progress WhatsUp Gold is a real on-premises monitor, and it already licenses devices, not sensors. The usual reasons teams look for a WhatsUp Gold alternative are different: quote-only scaling after the 50-device starter SKUs, traffic analysis and configuration management sitting in higher editions, and a UI that still feels like a 2010s operations console.
ZenPlus is also per unique IP, unlimited interfaces, fully on-premises. Professional puts NetFlow + NCM in the same per-device price. Volume discounts are printed on the pricing page (10/15/20/25% at 100/250/500/1000+ devices). Free tier is 10 devices forever.
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Do not claim ZenPlus is cheaper at 50 devices on Essentials vs WhatsUp Business. Business at $1,229 can win a small ICMP-and-SNMP estate. The crossover is when you need NTA+ (traffic) and configuration management, which WhatsUp places in the higher editions / feature matrix, plus anything you would add as NDR Lite.
At 100 devices ZenPlus Professional with the printed 10% volume discount is $5,400/year. WhatsUp does not print a 100-device list price on that page; it is a sales quote. That quote-vs-published gap is a procurement issue, not a slogan.
Comparison
List price, same 50-device starting point
| Plan | Published start (50 devices / year) | Implied $/device/mo |
|---|---|---|
| WhatsUp Gold Business | $1,229 | ~$2.05 |
| WhatsUp Gold Enterprise | $2,049 | ~$3.42 |
| WhatsUp Gold Enterprise Plus | $3,469 | ~$5.78 |
| WhatsUp Gold Enterprise Scale | Contact | — |
| WhatsUp NDR Lite add-on | From $866/year | extra |
| ZenPlus Essentials | $1,800 | $3.00 |
| ZenPlus Professional (NPM + NCM + NetFlow) | $3,000 | $5.00 |
| ZenPlus Enterprise (adds APM + HA) | $4,500 | $7.50 |
WhatsUp Gold publishes starter prices for 50 devices on whatsupgold.com/pricing (August 2026, USD, taxes extra). ZenPlus at 50 unique IPs: zentryc.com/pricing, billed annually. WhatsUp’s own 50-device starts are $1,229–$3,469 per year (~$2–$6/device/mo), not a per-device monthly list like ZenPlus.
Detail
Feature map
| Workflow | WhatsUp Gold (public editions page) | ZenPlus |
|---|---|---|
| Device / interface monitoring | Unlimited aspects per device | Unlimited interfaces per unique IP |
| Network traffic analysis | NTA+ (higher editions) | NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX / J-Flow in Professional |
| Configuration management | Configuration Management (higher editions) | NCM backup, diff, rollback in Professional |
| Log management | Listed as an edition capability | Firewall logs are ZenShield (separate, honest) |
| Application monitoring | Listed as an edition capability | OpenTelemetry APM in Enterprise |
| High availability | Edition / extra installs | Included in Enterprise |
| On-premises | Yes | Every plan; air-gap on Enterprise |
| Public volume price list | Starter SKUs at 50 devices; scale is quote | 10/15/20/25% printed at 100/250/500/1000+ |
| Free forever | Trial | 10 devices |
| On-prem AI over the same telemetry | Not the ZenAI model | ZenAI |
When to stay on WhatsUp Gold
- You are on Business, under ~50 devices, and you do not need productized flow or NCM.
- The install is healthy, maps and monitors are already built, and the renewal is cheap.
- You specifically want Progress’s NDR / threat add-ons as the security story (that is not ZenPlus).
When ZenPlus is the alternative
- You bought WhatsUp for device monitoring and are now buying NTA+ and configuration as the real product.
- You want a printed 100/250/500-device number without a quote cycle.
- You want OpenTelemetry in the same NOC as SNMP, not a second application-monitoring SKU.
- Operators want the console published on this site (live, sanitized screens) instead of another classic Windows operations UI.
Migration
How a WhatsUp migration runs
- Export the device list (unique IPs = the quote). Note whether NTA+ and config management are actually in use.
- Install ZenPlus (Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, one-line installer). 10-device free or 30-day full eval.
- Dual-run SNMP + flow + config backup on one site.
- Cut notifications when alert parity is boring.
- Keep WhatsUp read-only through one change window.
FAQ
WhatsUp Gold alternative FAQ
Comparison cluster
See the rest of the comparison pages
Like-for-like pages for the tools NOC teams actually run, plus published per-device pricing and the device vs sensor licensing guide.
Continue exploring
The ZenPlus module menu
Each page below maps to a real product surface in the unified ZenPlus console.
Network Monitoring
Devices, availability, services, link utilization, discovery, and interface health.
ExploreSNMP Network Monitoring
SNMPv2c/v3 polling, interface metrics, per-device licensing, and on-prem credentials.
ExploreNetFlow Analytics
Top talkers, endpoints, protocols, QoS, traffic throughput, and flow incidents.
ExploreServer Monitoring
Inventory, agent fleet, collection policies, resource pressure, and software baselines.
ExploreApplication Performance
OpenTelemetry services, service maps, grouped errors, traces, and ingest keys.
ExploreNetwork Maps
Network Studio, manual maps, design mode, live mode, and topology context.
ExploreAlerting
Alert Center, alert rules, traps, channels, gateways, and incident routing.
ExploreConfiguration & NCM
Config backup, connection profiles, SNMP credentials, Windows credentials, and MIBs.
ExploreReports
Executive dashboards, availability trends, top issues, outages, and export workflows.
ExploreNext step
See WhatsUp Gold alternative in a live ZenPlus demo.
Review the product screens, module workflow, deployment model, and NOC use cases with the Zentryc team.