We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"It does a lot of things automatically, and that's the big thing with it. They're making the software so that you don't need to be as knowledgeable as me on the switching and routing side to get your work done. If you want, you can have DNA troubleshoot your problem for you and give you solutions or fix it itself, if it was something that's just a configuration issue."
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"We can monitor all devices and get the required information using the product."
"It enables monitoring of various components such as access points, switch cards, and other elements within the company's solutions."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"We encountered issues with their response times, which had a big impact on our workflow."
"The solution can be quite pricey."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"The features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
"What I want to see in Cisco DNA Center in the future is more support for other platforms so that you can manage third-party products, such as Fortinet."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"The task failure reporting or provisioning failure reporting could be a little bit better in the UI, with more information given to the user."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"The interface needs some work."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
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Cisco DNA Center is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 37 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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