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."
"It does change the way we troubleshoot and it is relatively easy to use once you learn it. I would recommend it to someone considering it."
"The deployment was a breeze. It is a very innovative and robust platform that allows us to bi-directionally stitch together data elements from Netflow-enabled devices to provide a context for network utilization."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"The most valuable feature is their support, they get better every day."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"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."
"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's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
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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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