We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG 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."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"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."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"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."
"The tool has the ability to look back within a month's data. It is very easy to navigate within the tool and troubleshoot the problem, compared to other solutions that we've used in the past."
"The most valuable features are speed and cost."
"I love the single pane of glass view. It makes it easier to not have to navigate everywhere. It allows more simplistic visibility, without having to go from tool to tool to tool, or from window to window to window."
"The real-time troubleshooting and application segregation that you can do within it."
"The technical support is really good. They will go above and beyond, if you are running into a problem. You can go to a sales engineer, who will engage technical support to help you out."
"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."
"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."
"It's an easy product to set up."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"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 to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"I'd like them to make the product more user-friendly."
"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."
"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."
"We don't use the single pane of glass view, even though we own it."
"There is a timeout feature that we have been asking for awhile."
"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."
"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."
"The single pane of glass feed still needs work."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is ranked 63rd in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is rated 8.4. 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 NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG writes "Once you know how to use the product, it's easy and simple ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is most compared with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, NETSCOUT vSTREAM and cPacket cClear. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG report.
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