We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and ThousandEyes 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."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the logging, keeping threats under control, and keeping our data and environment secure."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"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 Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"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 the product to offer more agility."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, Vectra AI, Arista NDR and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM, AppDynamics and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. ThousandEyes report.
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