We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"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."
"It does change the way we troubleshoot and it is relatively easy to use once you learn it. I would recommend it to someone considering it."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"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."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"The pricing is expensive."
"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."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM, Darktrace and ScienceLogic. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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