We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and PRTG Network Monitor 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."
"Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"Cisco DNA Center is a user-friendly solution."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is very versatile in terms of analytics."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"Nice product with an easy interface to use and a large variety of sensors."
"I really love the activity library. It gives the flexibility to discover data and metrics about my interface and data server."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are bandwidth utilization, user-friendliness, all past report simple retrievals, and timeout features. Additionally, if the solution does go down it is simple to bring it back."
"The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper."
"The feature I like is that it can easily do a lot of mapping."
"Ability to create a dashboard inside software monitoring."
"The solution provides us response times to issues."
"The sensors and remote probes are phenomenal. We use them for all of our global sites. The problem with our global sites are that they are all VPNs. If the link goes down, you can't monitor other solutions, as it just goes off the grid. Having remote probes allows them to still carry on and get the information that we need when it comes back up, sending the information to us."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"In terms of the clustering part, there are some concerns."
"The tool's deployment is complex. It also needs to improve its GUI."
"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 features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
"They should include UTM features in the product."
"They can improve the network visibility. Licensing and its maintenance are also needed."
"The solution needs to improve the dashboard."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"The licensing policy needs more flexibility."
"The remote probes seem to be a little bit buggy at times. They just stop working or they say they can't communicate. What we tend to do to is install the remote app onto the servers that we use. That seems to clear it up."
"When using PRTG Network Monitor it is beneficial if you have prior experience with it, the user interface could improve."
"There is room for improvement in this solution for the performance and third-party monitoring protocols. They need to be updated to the latest ones."
"It would be nice if it gave us alerts via Gmail or SMS message."
"This solution is a good product so far, but I haven't been using it long enough to know how it could be improved."
"In a very few cases, customers want more detailed reports, which we cannot meet."
"The icons on PRTG's network diagram are hard to find. For example, finding the icons for firewalls and servers is difficult, so we're struggling to create the network topology."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 37 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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