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 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."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"Health and communication links availability."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"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."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The event correlation could be better."
"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"The stability could be better."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
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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 100 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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