We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"It does change the way we troubleshoot and it is relatively easy to use once you learn it. I would recommend it to someone considering it."
"The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"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."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"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."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"I'm expecting to see a little bit more artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They need a bit more sophistication in that."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"I would like to see better customization capabilities."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 7 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 14 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Improved our organization greatly but greater customizability would be beneficial". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Good real-time traffic reports, but uncomfortably high pricing and mediocre support". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Cisco Umbrella, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Darktrace and ScienceLogic. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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