We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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