We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Meraki Dashboard 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 is its alerts and dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"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."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass that allows us to identify issues across the entire network from one dashboard."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"It's really user-friendly."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"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."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"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."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"Price could be reduced."
"The solution has a limited routing table and needs improvement by increasing the numbers as well as providing a summarization for the table."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. 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 Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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