We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Zabbix 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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"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."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"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."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"It could be more stable."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Zabbix report.
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