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."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"The most valuable part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."
"The solution's analytics and thrust detection capabilities are good. We're still adjusting it. It's a little hypersensitive, but it is working right now."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"The overall visibility into the actual device itself would be helpful. I don't just want support-specific data, but also to be able to see information such as CPU and other internal components or usage of the devices."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"I would like to see better filters."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
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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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