We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NetCrunch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity in navigating through the dashboard. It's well set out, and the layout is nice and user friendly. A lot of clients enjoy seeing layer 7 visibility. They get a good indication and insight into what is happening in their network and what applications are being used the most. They can then customize and give preference to business-critical applications."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"Third-party switches do not necessarily integrate easily with the system and this could be improved to allow for better adaptation."
"The solution can be expensive."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"There needs to be more improvement on the device-connected interface."
"The solution has a limited routing table and needs improvement by increasing the numbers as well as providing a summarization for the table."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 76th in Network Monitoring Software. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while NetCrunch is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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