We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and SolarWinds ipMonitor 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."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"The feature I find most valuable is the single pane of glass where you can configure a monitor view, all from one dashboard. For example, on the wireless side, you can configure it under the configuration panel, and then view statistics like location analytics, user analytics, etc."
"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."
"It's a scalable solution."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"Third-party switches do not necessarily integrate easily with the system and this could be improved to allow for better adaptation."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"I would like to receive decent notification alerts regarding the license's expiry. Or any help on correcting or optimizing licenses, because in certain circumstances you can add a license but it's the wrong licensing. However, the Dashboard adds the license in some way, and you do not utilize it. You can simply extend the license's expiration date."
"I think this product could be improved with a CLI for more directives."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 71st in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0. 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 SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with SolarWinds NPM.
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