We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Nagios XI 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 has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"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."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"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 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."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code."
"Nagios XI is stable."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"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."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Nagios XI 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 Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Nagios XI report.
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