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."
"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 fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"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 installation process is not hard at all."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
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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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