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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"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."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 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 and Vectra AI, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Zabbix report.
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