We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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 features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"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."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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