We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"The solution helps to troubleshoot and put our hands on the weak points of customer networks."
"For me, the most valuable features are the dashboards which we use to highlight the overall impact to the customers, and being able to drill down into the nitty-gritty of the customer experience."
"The visual and graphical interfaces in the display that it provides for us to show our senior leadership. We can show them what is actually happening, instead of a spreadsheet."
"The product is very good. We have very few problems."
"When we have any type of outage, and we dig into it, we are able to tell what the root cause is instead of having to go through Wireshark, etc."
"Deep packet inspection is probably the strongest feature."
"It helps us get to the root cause quickly. It helps us find massive error codes, then we drill down on that error code, knowing that is the source of our problem."
"The ability of the dashboards is useful for discover, mapping and understanding of application behaviour."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The initial setup was complex."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"They can improve still on the workflows, document their workflows that are commonly used... We don't know some of the workflows yet, and it's not something that you can just read up in the manual. There is some stuff in the help manual and online, but it's to a point where you need to purchase extra training and services from them. You can't just go and read up on it yourself and learn from A to Z..."
"The single pane of glass view is a challenge. I like the graphics, they're easy to understand, but when more digging is required, it's more complicated to get what I'm expecting."
"The scalability needs some work. From a probe perspective, we are limited to a certain amount of throughput on the devices themselves. Without having actual hooks into the bare metal hardware for the solutions, it's a bit of a "thumb in the air" as to when we hit our capacity or when our high watermark is."
"The product was lacking for awhile when they did the Arbor acquisition. I was waiting to see more security stuff, which they did eventually add, and is now impressive."
"Its initial setup process is complicated."
"There is currently less visibility or GUI to analyse the packet for troubleshooting purposes."
"The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there."
"The stability is only fair. It goes down a lot."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics and Datadog. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE report.
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