We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Ixia Hawkeye 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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"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."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2. 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 Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and SolarWinds NPM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Ixia Hawkeye report.
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