We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and Mist AI and Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"Meraki Dashboard centralizes control of all our equipment into one cloud-based console, so we can manage it from anywhere. We can resolve problems remotely outside of business hours because it is on the cloud. You can use the dashboard to change security settings or configure routers and switches."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity in navigating through the dashboard. It's well set out, and the layout is nice and user friendly. A lot of clients enjoy seeing layer 7 visibility. They get a good indication and insight into what is happening in their network and what applications are being used the most. They can then customize and give preference to business-critical applications."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Natural language patching is an important feature."
"Ability to control the access points by groups."
"The cost is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"Mist AI and Cloud have definitely improved the functioning of our organization. The access to the Internet, including its speed and reliability, has significantly improved."
"AI-driven automation helps implement the solution quickly."
"The most useful aspect of Mist AI and Cloud is automation capabilities."
"Regarding features, the solution seems to be very intuitive."
"If you compare wired versus wireless, it's convenient. You don't need to have one place for connectivity. You can move around and it's easier. Sometimes it's a hassle to work with wires, which is why wireless is so convenient."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"There seems to be different versions of standards used in the wireless access points. In the future, it would be helpful if the solution could come up with some kind of universal standard for all devices and all access points."
"The user experience should be improved. It's not user-friendly."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"Mist AI and Cloud should improve its integrations."
"The solution doesn't provide mail notifications currently."
"The solution has various licensing policies. It will be easy to use if it is an open single license."
"The inter-functionality with other vendors was a negative for us."
"There are some technical issues that may require attention"
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Mist AI and Cloud is ranked 7th in Wireless LAN with 21 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Mist AI and Cloud is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mist AI and Cloud writes "A combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science techniques to optimize user experiences". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Mist AI and Cloud is most compared with Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Aruba Wireless, Cisco Wireless, ExtremeCloud IQ and Zabbix.
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