NETSCOUT Earns 14 Leader Badges in the G2 Fall 2026 Grid Reports
Customers continue to recognize NETSCOUT solutions across several categories.
In the Fall 2026 Grid Reports from G2, NETSCOUT has been recognized as a leader in 14 categories across distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection and observability, as well as multiple regional awards. These honors are directly related to customer confidence in NETSCOUT solutions’ capabilities in protecting organizations from cyberattacks and assuring network and application performance.
G2’s Grid Reports are derived from real, verified customer reviews and market presence data, which gives buyers valuable insights into how technology solutions perform in real-world applications. Peer-driven insights into real experiences can help organizations evaluating cybersecurity and observability solutions make informed decisions about vendors they want to contact and learn more about.
For the fall reports, NETSCOUT was recognized across DDoS protection, observability software, enterprise monitoring, web security, and network management tools categories, showing the powerful and robust product offerings provided.
NETSCOUT’s Fall 2026 G2 Recognitions
NETSCOUT Network and Application Observability
NETSCOUT network and application observability solutions were recognized as:
- Leader (#7/35)—Grid Report for Enterprise Monitoring (Enterprise)
- Leader (#5/24)—Grid Report for Enterprise Monitoring
- Leader (#11/38)—Grid Report for Observability Software
- Leader (#4/12)—Small-Business Observability Software
- Regional Leader (#6/22)—India Enterprise Monitoring
- Regional Leader (#6/22)—Asia Pacific Observability Software
- Regional Leader (#6/23)—Asia Enterprise Monitoring
- Regional Leader (#6/24—Asia Pacific Enterprise Monitoring
- Regional Leader (#10/27)—India Network Monitoring
NETSCOUT network and application observability solutions help enterprise and service provider IT and network teams understand not only what issues are happening across cloud, data centers, remote sites, and other network environments, but also why they are happening. This reduces the time needed to troubleshoot, restoring peak performance more quickly.
One recent review praises NETSCOUT’s powerful network visibility this way: “The best part is its unique, high-fidelity ‘Smart Data’ from deep packet inspection (DPI). It delivers true, unsampled visibility across complex hybrid environments, helping eliminate blind spots and get to the real root cause quickly.”
Packet-derived intelligence is incredibly valuable for teams to maintain peak performance across all network environments. This recognition validates that and shows that even the largest networks can benefit from this deep insight.
Arbor Threat Mitigation System
NETSCOUT Arbor Threat Mitigation System (TMS) was recognized as:
- Leader (#3/9)—Enterprise Grid for DDoS Protection
- Leader (#5/27)—Grid Report for DDoS Protection
- Leader (#35/193)—Grid Report for Web Security
Arbor TMS continues to showcase why it is trusted by many of the world’s largest enterprises and service providers for maintaining availability of key networks, applications, and services. The combination of high-performance DDoS protection capabilities and actionable visibility supports the operational needs of today’s security teams while protecting these critical services.
Arbor Edge Defense
NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense was recognized as:
- Leader (#2/9)—Enterprise Grid for DDoS Protection
Arbor Edge Defense also earns consistent praise for its DDoS protection capabilities. With many use cases, such as on-premise stateless DDoS defense, providing CDN-aware DDoS mitigation, and even stopping non-DDoS attacks including brute-force password attacks, inbound scanning, or outbound or inbound communications to known malicious sites, Arbor Edge Defense provides strong safeguards against multiple types of cyberattacks. This protection is improved by NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Intelligence Feed integration.
Arbor Sightline
NETSCOUT Arbor Sightline was recognized as:
- Leader (#3/15)—Enterprise Grid for Network Management Tools
Networkwide visibility and analytics help Arbor Sightline users detect anomalies and understand traffic patterns to quickly respond to issues that may impact service availability or performance. This recognition portrays how much customers value the deep network intelligence, scalable visibility, and swift decision-making that Arbor Sightline enables.
G2 Recognition Reflects Real Customer Value
This recognition emphasizes true customer value. By blending customer satisfaction and market presence, G2 Grid Reports offer useful insights into how real customers and users view the performance and value of NETSCOUT solutions.
Protecting and Assuring Digital Services Is NETSCOUT’s Specialty
The Fall 2026 G2 Grid Report recognition reflects the value of NETSCOUT—creating solutions customers trust to help them:
- Gain deeper visibility across the most complex networks
- Defend against all types of sophisticated DDoS attacks
- Ensure key services and applications are available for customers, employees, and more
- Provide actionable insights to streamline operations, reducing complexity for security and IT teams
This broad recognition across its product offerings shows NETSCOUT’s true value in helping organizations achieve both security and performance objectives.
Continued Thanks to Our Customers
NETSCOUT is grateful to all of our customers who share their experiences on G2. This feedback drives these reports, helping showcase the true capabilities of NETSCOUT solutions in the real world. As digital ecosystems continue to evolve, NETSCOUT will follow suit to remain the Guardians of the Connected World.