We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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 features of this solution are the logging, keeping threats under control, and keeping our data and environment secure."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"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 takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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