We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer 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."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it allows for easy suite configuration. We can handle everything on there when there's a policy or any other requirement."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"The most valuable feature is their support, they get better every day."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"Price could be reduced."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"The product is missing a VPN and it is a major issue when it comes to deployment."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"The solution can be expensive."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"I'm expecting to see a little bit more artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They need a bit more sophistication in that."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Darktrace. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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