We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Nagios Core 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."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"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."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the logging, keeping threats under control, and keeping our data and environment secure."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"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."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"The core version is no match for the XI version."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Nagios Core is rated 8.0. 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 Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Nagios Core report.
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