We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Flowmon 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 most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"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 ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"The solution is stable."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Flowmon is rated 8.0. 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, WhatsUp Gold, Vectra AI and Plixer Scrutinizer.
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