We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Meraki Dashboard 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."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"The most valuable feature is their support, they get better every day."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"The initial setup was complex."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"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."
"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 Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"The solution can be expensive."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. 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 Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Auvik Network Management (ANM). See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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