We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and DX Spectrum 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 is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"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 provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The initial setup was complex."
"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."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"Stealthwatch is still maturing in AI. It uses artificial intelligence for predictions, but AI still needs to mature. It is in a phase where you get 95% correct detection. As its AI engine learns more, it will become more accurate. This is applicable to all the devices that are using AI because they support both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The accuracy in the case of supervised machine learning is dependent on the data you feed into the box. The accuracy in the case of unsupervised machine learning is dependent on the algorithm. The algorithm matures depending on retrospective learning, and this is how it is able to detect zero-day attacks."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. 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 DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. DX Spectrum report.
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