We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and DX Spectrum 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."
"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."
"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."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"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."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"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."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while DX Spectrum 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 DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. DX Spectrum report.
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