We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NPM 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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"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."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"It covers everything from end to end, from the standpoint of endpoint machines and the routers and switches. The switch port also comes there."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"It would be good to have high security."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"The product is scalable, but at a cost. Extra modules have to be purchased for each extra server. The initial set up isn't complex, but will require someone who is experienced with the network monitoring system"
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NPM 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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