We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and PRTG Network 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"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."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is its ease of use."
"PRTG is integrated on Windows."
"It is a central solution in terms of how to actually use it. It has a very easy dashboard. Everything is concise. We are able to create custom sensors. For different parts of the business, we have many products across many environments, and it works for everything."
"It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around."
"This solution provides us with the needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It allows us to grab all the information from a single point of view."
"My opinion is that this solution is not very expensive."
"I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"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 GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"I would like to see network mapping."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve the reports. In the reports, you have to give an alert for that SMS and email, the emergency calls and downtimes have to be reported accordingly. You have to enable email services or an SMS gateway service to receive more alerts at the proper time."
"With custom sensors, there is a lot of work which needs to be done in the background, just for it to be tailor-made for the specific thing that we are actually monitoring. We take a lot of time with the custom sensors. I would like to see the customer sensor be more robust and a bit more varied."
"Performance-wise, PRTG Network Monitor still needs improvement because a large number of SNMPv3 queries reduces tool performance."
"In a very few cases, customers want more detailed reports, which we cannot meet."
"They just released a newer version of the desktop app, a beta version, that I have been trialing out. I prefer the older version, only because of how the layout is designed"
"They could improve the process of updating the license."
"I've encountered a challenge in my functions, particularly in adding and printing."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while PRTG Network Monitor 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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