We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and WhatsUp Gold 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 are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"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."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"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."
"It is stable."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The interface needs some work."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 40th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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