FastNetMon LiveView vs Flowtriq
FastNetMon added a web dashboard. It costs $70/user/month extra. Here's the full comparison.
The real cost of FastNetMon LiveView
It's not $115/month anymore
FastNetMon Advanced has always been bandwidth-priced. LiveView is a new separate purchase on top — billed per user, per month.
FastNetMon Advanced starts at $115/month (10 Gbps bandwidth tier). FastNetMon LiveView is sold separately at $70/user/month (or $720/user/year). It is not included in the Advanced license — it is a separate product with a separate invoice line.
For a 3-person NOC team that needs the fastnetmon web interface for daily operations:
FastNetMon
- Dashboard is a paid add-on — not included
- Per-user seat pricing — costs grow with your team
- Bandwidth-based license — price rises with traffic
- Activation fee ($85) on monthly plans
- Separate server hardware required (~$60–150/mo)
Flowtriq — Recommended
- Full web dashboard — included at every tier
- Unlimited users — no per-seat fees, ever
- Flat per-node pricing — no bandwidth tiers
- No activation fees, no hidden costs
- No dedicated server required
| Team Size & Nodes | FastNetMon Advanced + LiveView | Flowtriq | Monthly Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 user · 10 nodes | $185/mo | $99.90/mo | $85/mo |
| 3 users · 20 nodes | $325+/mo | $199.80/mo | $125+/mo |
| 5 users · 50 nodes | $550+/mo | $499.50/mo | $50+/mo |
| 10 users · 100 nodes | $815+/mo | $999/mo | Similar |
FastNetMon pricing: $115/mo base (10G tier) + $70/user/mo LiveView. Flowtriq pricing: $9.99/node/mo, unlimited users. FastNetMon server infrastructure cost (~$60–150/mo) excluded from comparison. Large Flowtriq deployments may qualify for volume pricing.
Side-by-side comparison
FastNetMon Advanced + LiveView vs Flowtriq
LiveView adds a fastnetmon web interface and real-time charts. Here's what else each platform delivers — and what's still missing from FastNetMon after the LiveView launch.
| Feature | FastNetMon Advanced + LiveView | Flowtriq $9.99/node |
|---|---|---|
| Interface & Dashboard | ||
| Web dashboard | +$70/user/mo extra — separate purchase | Included, unlimited users |
| Real-time traffic charts | LiveView add-on | Included |
| Team RBAC | LiveView only | Owner, Admin, Analyst, Readonly |
| Web-based configuration | LiveView only | Full settings in dashboard |
| Detection | ||
| Attack classification | UDP flood only (customer-confirmed) | 7 attack families + confidence scoring |
| Detection speed | ~1 minute (PrimeTel CTO, confirmed) | <1 second (kernel-level) |
| IP spoofing detection | Not available | TTL distribution analysis |
| L7 HTTP flood detection | Not available | Access log parsing (nginx / apache / caddy) |
| Botnet detection | Not available | Flags 300+ distinct botnet sources |
| Mitigation | ||
| BGP FlowSpec | Advanced only ($115+/mo) | Included at $9.99/node |
| Automated FlowSpec | False positives prevent automation | Confidence scoring + auto-rollback |
| Auto-mitigation rule types | Limited | 46 rule types (iptables, nftables, XDP/eBPF, cloud APIs) |
| Cloud API mitigations (Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode) | Not available | All included |
| Detection to BGP announcement | Manual or delayed | <2 seconds end-to-end |
| Forensics & Evidence | ||
| PCAP forensics | Not available | Pre-attack ring buffer + upload analyzer |
| AI incident summaries | Not available | Included |
| Automated postmortem reports (PDF / HTML / JSON) | Not available | Included |
| Hash-chained audit log (SHA-256) | Not available | Included |
| Alerting & Integrations | ||
| Alert channels | Limited | 12+: Discord, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, SMS, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus… |
| Prometheus metrics | Not available | 15+ metric families |
| Kafka export | Not available | Included |
| Terraform provider | Not available | Included |
| Pricing & Access | ||
| Unlimited user seats | $70/user/mo for LiveView dashboard access | Always included — no seat fees |
| API access | Advanced only | Included at all tiers |
| Multi-tenancy | Advanced only | Included at all tiers |
| Free trial | Gated — application required | 7-day free, no card, no gatekeeping |
| Setup time | Hours (C binary, config files, server required) | 60 seconds: pip install ftagent |
Amber = feature exists but costs extra or has significant caveats. Red = not available. Green = included.
From FastNetMon customers
What FastNetMon Customers Said
These gaps existed before LiveView. The fastnetmon dashboard add-on doesn't fix detection speed, attack classification, false positives, or the operator tooling problem.
Only detects UDP floods — we needed to know what kind of attack we were facing.
Detection takes within a minute. For our infrastructure, we needed something faster.
We had to build our own web interface because the CLI wasn't usable for our operators.
Can't trust the detection enough to automate BGP mitigation — too many false positives.
Getting started
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Create a free account at flowtriq.com/signup. No gatekeeping, no approval queue, no bandwidth questionnaire. Works from any country.
Install the agent
Any Linux kernel ≥ 3.10. <30 MB RAM. <0.1% CPU. Runs as a systemd service.
Baseline auto-learns in ~5 minutes
No manual threshold tuning. EWMA baselines adapt automatically to your node's traffic pattern. No config files to edit.
Connect BGP if you have it
ExaBGP, GoBGP, BIRD 2, FRRouting — all supported. Configure via the web dashboard, not config files. BGP is optional; detection and alerting work without it.
Add your alert channels
Discord, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, SMS — pick any of 12+. All included. Zero additional cost per channel.
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