We performed a comparison between Nagios Network Analyzer and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's UI is user-friendly, and pricing is affordable. It is very easy to deploy and learn."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution offers very good system monitoring. It's easy to manage your network, as well as your hardware and software. It's really useful."
"Network tracking is the most valuable feature of Network Analyzer."
"It is highly customizable and can be integrated well with third-party software."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"The network monitoring feature, especially, stands out to me."
"The solution is useful for monitoring network devices."
"The administrative privilege detection feature is the most valuable feature. The admin accounts are often highly accessible to the high-risk component of the environment. If those accounts are compromised or are being used in a suspicious manner, that's high-fidelity events for us to look into."
"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."
"Some valuable features of Vectra AI are that it is very intuitive and that there are only a small amount of false positives. Therefore, it's an effective solution."
"The UI is easy to use and when we send detection to everybody, they easily understand what we are asking at the time."
"One of the things that we didn't expect to happen was that our network team also jumped on it faster than we thought. In most cases, if it's a security tool that's working on the network part, they can also use it to find out certain flaws that have been in the system. Certain flaws, related to some legacy stuff, were already there for quite a few years, which they couldn't explain at first, but we could explain them based on the timing of certain things."
"The solution's ability to reduce alerts, by rolling up numerous alerts to create a single incident or campaign, helps in that it collapses all the events to a particular host, or a particular detection to a set of hosts. So it doesn't generate too many alerts. By and large, whatever alerts it generates are actionable, and actionable within the day."
"It keeps up with the network traffic, which is a good thing. It provides more context to plain alerts compared to using an older system. So, it helps an analyst reduce the information overload."
"The dashboard gives me a scoring system that allows me to prioritize things that I should look at. I may not necessarily care so much about one event, whereas if I have a single botnet detection or a brute force attack, I really want to get on top of those."
"Nagios Network Analyzer should integrate an application monitoring solution to monitor application bandwidth usage."
"The bandwidth for its front-end version needs enhancement."
"There are some loopholes you need to be aware of from a security perspective."
"It's very hard to install materials. You need a lot of documentation. They should make it easier to install and configure the solution."
"There is room for improvement on the setup side."
"The graphics and reports can be a little bit better."
"They need to have some automation models embedded in them."
"It has an old-fashioned interface."
"One of the things I am not so happy about when it comes to Vectra is the scoring board."
"The solution has not reduced the security analyst workload in our organization because we still need to SIEM. Unfortunately, while Vectra, for us, is a brilliant tool for network investigations, giving wonderful visibility, it doesn't go the whole way to replace our SIEM that is needed for compliance. So, I still have the same amount of alerting and logging that I did before. It gives us more defined ability to see incidents, but it doesn't give us enough information to satisfy a PCI or 27001 audit."
"There is room for improvement in the documentation. We would like to have more details on how it detects what we see."
"They use a proprietary logging format that is probably 90% similar to Bro Logs. Their biggest area of improvement is finishing out the remaining 10%. That 10% might not be beneficial to their ML engine, but that's fine. The industry standard is Zeek Logs or Bro Logs, or Bro or Zeek, depending on how old you are. While they have 90% of those fields, they're still missing some fields. In very rare instances, some community rules do not have the fields that they need, and we had to modify community rules for our logs. So, their biggest area of improvement would be to just finish their matching of the Zeek standard."
"The solution's marketing is not good."
"It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability."
"In comparison with a lot of systems I used in the past, the false positives are really a burden because they are taking a lot of time at this moment."
"One of the things that we are missing a bit is the capability to add our own rules to it. At the moment, the tech engine does its thing, but we have some cool ideas to make additional rules. There should be an option in the platform to add custom rules, or there should be some kind of user group where we can suggest them for the roadmap and see if they get evaluated and get transparent communication on whether they will be implemented in the product or not."
Nagios Network Analyzer is ranked 10th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 9 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 40 reviews. Nagios Network Analyzer is rated 7.8, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nagios Network Analyzer writes "User friendly, cloud scalability, with surpassed return on investment goals". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Nagios Network Analyzer is most compared with Darktrace, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and Corelight. See our Nagios Network Analyzer vs. Vectra AI report.
See our list of best Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) vendors.
We monitor all Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
