We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and SolarWinds Network Device 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"What I love most about the Meraki Dashboard are its user-friendly features."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"The most valuable feature is their support, they get better every day."
"We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it allows for easy suite configuration. We can handle everything on there when there's a policy or any other requirement."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"I like the mapping that you could do and the dashboards were very pretty."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The alerts we are getting when we start losing connection access have been helpful."
"This product proactively tells us about issues before the users notice."
"The deployment process is quick."
"The solution and its interface are elaborate and fully integrate all monitored items for easy analysis and troubleshooting."
"The product is useful for switches and IP phones."
"In terms of general network monitoring features, I find SolarWinds Network Device Monitor very flexible and comfortable to use. The software itself is extremely useful when it comes to monitoring how our data moves between different networks and environments."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"The solution can be expensive."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"Third-party switches do not necessarily integrate easily with the system and this could be improved to allow for better adaptation."
"There is no mobile version of this product, and our team should be able to access it using a mobile device."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could improve by being more user-friendly. The network has so many features which make it difficult to find how to configure how to use it. It is not simple to customize."
"In terms of price, it could be less expensive."
"If everything were in the package so that everything was ready to go out of the box, that would be ideal."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor lacks the granularity of other monitoring tools like LiveNX."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"The security needs improvement, which is why we are moving away from Solar Winds. We have security concerns."
"The way they are presenting the map of our devices needs to be improved."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is ranked 43rd in Network Monitoring Software with 16 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor writes "An elaborate solution that fully integrates for easy monitoring and troubleshooting". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is most compared with FortiMonitor, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), ThousandEyes, ScienceLogic and Motadata Network Management System. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor report.
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