We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"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."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Darktrace and ScienceLogic. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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