We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Zabbix 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."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"The solution's analytics and thrust detection capabilities are good. We're still adjusting it. It's a little hypersensitive, but it is working right now."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The implementation process is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"The Wi-Fi side 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."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."
"The documentation could be improved."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Zabbix report.
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