We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and ThousandEyes 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."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"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."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"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."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"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."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, Vectra AI, Arista NDR and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM, AppDynamics and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. ThousandEyes report.
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