We performed a comparison between Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Cisco Secure Network Analytics 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 automated network topology map is excellent; it shows connected networks, where they're going, and what they're visible on."
"I find the mapping topology, traffic insights, and reporting to be the most valuable features that Auvik offers."
"The primary reason I wanted Auvik was SNMP. It discovers all the MIBs and pulls them. That's how it can monitor the things that other platforms don't."
"I like Auvik's mapping. Your home dashboard has a map view where you can see potential issues on the endpoints. If an AP or switch has a problem, you can drill down into those to see how it's affecting the endpoints."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see usage alerts on all of our devices."
"It also automatically updates network topology. Once it discovers something new, and we allow it, it will update it within the interface. Then, when you log in to the cloud, it shows it. It's kinds of neat. It shows you exactly where things connect. We can see and connect the dots."
"It's hard to say that one feature is my favorite, but I like Auvik's ability to map networks using SNMP. It maps the network, so I can look at all the devices and set them to provide alerts or automatically create tickets when outages occur. If clients need it, I can export all of the data into an Excel spreadsheet."
"The TrafficInsights feature not only shows me network bandwidth usage without the need for expensive, in-line traffic decryption, but it gives me which device is using the most traffic. It ranks devices by which are using the most CPU, memory, storage, and it keeps those up to date, non-stop."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see Auvik have some more documentation with a typical CM solution like Splunk. I want to see more examples of things like configuring port forwarding for firewalls. In addition to collecting data from different types of appliances, I would like to customize more of the metrics for each appliance."
"The tutorial could be a little bit more comprehensive."
"A feature I'd like to see is a stat breakdown of our networks at the end of every month, showing package drop rates for each network and so on. For example, this data delivered in an email would be a good feature."
"When it comes to monitoring, Auvik provides a single integrated platform, but I feel it could do more things. If it could facilitate device upgrades, that would be great."
"When you need to tailor an onboarding for a customer who wants different triggers and conditions for alerts that don't come out of the box in their default alert set for certain device types, you can make it happen and create those, but doing so isn't that easy."
"Two weeks ago, we were able to access the support chat via a small button on the bottom right side of the screen. Now, that button has gone away... it has become pretty difficult to access support..."
"Auvik doesn't communicate very well with Ubiquiti devices and will incorrectly flag facets as down. Compatibility with Ubiquiti is my biggest pain point with Auvik."
"Auvik could include more customization options and the ability to efficiently manage additional features like printer monitoring."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"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."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"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."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 3rd in Network Monitoring Software with 131 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is rated 8.8, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Auvik Network Management (ANM) writes "Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Auvik Network Management (ANM) is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor, Meraki Dashboard, SolarWinds NPM and Zabbix, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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