We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Meraki Dashboard 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."
"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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"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."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"I would like to see better filters."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"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."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. 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 Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Auvik Network Management (ANM). See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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