We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and ThousandEyes 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 most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"It does change the way we troubleshoot and it is relatively easy to use once you learn it. I would recommend it to someone considering it."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"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."
"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."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, Vectra AI, Arista NDR and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM, AppDynamics and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. ThousandEyes report.
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