We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Flowmon 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 features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The solution is stable."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"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."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Flowmon is rated 8.0. 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, WhatsUp Gold, Plixer Scrutinizer and Vectra AI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Flowmon report.
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