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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"Another notable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is its Layer 7 visibility, which allows us to monitor and analyze network communications at the application layer."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"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."
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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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