We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NPM 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 about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"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."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"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."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"Monitoring capabilities are at a high level and it is easy to see utilization, access ports, and CPU memory in real time or through a lens for long-term visualization."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"The initial setup was complex."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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