We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"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."
"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."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"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."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The price could be improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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