We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NETSCOUT vSTREAM 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 feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"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."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see better filters."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 72nd in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT vSTREAM 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 NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE.
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