We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"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 fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"The overall visibility into the actual device itself would be helpful. I don't just want support-specific data, but also to be able to see information such as CPU and other internal components or usage of the devices."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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