We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Nagios Network 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."Darktrace is very useful for us because it has a large number of models for detecting threats."
"I like the Antigena feature in Darktrace, as it offers immediate response and is helpful."
"The most valuable feature has been the behavioral analytics that allows us to monitor all the traffic."
"Ability to see events and exactly what traffic or website the device had tried to connect to that raised the alert or issue."
"It is very easy to work with Darktrace once you know how it works and the type of permissions that you need to get related to the security over a network. The interface is awesome. I'm sure that you have seen Ironman, and you know Jarvis, the computer of Tony Stark. The interface of Darktrace is very similar, and you can see in 3D, like a hologram, the whole network, traffic, and all the traces inside the network. The interface is awesome, and it provides a lot of information. At least for us, it is very easy to handle this interface, get the reports, and do the interpretation of those reports. Darktrace also provides mobile monitoring. With an app on your mobile phone, you can view the information live, which is very useful for area directors and field engineers. Darktrace can be also correlated with any type of big data solution, such as Splunk."
"I particularly like Antigena and the analytics around the real-time monitoring of our network. I also like its reporting because it has got a seven-day reporting period within the system. Every time you run the reports, it gives you the data about the previous seven days. I like that because it is in real-time. I enjoy reading those reports and getting a very clear and decisive idea of what's happening on my network on a real-time basis. I like the actual real-time monitoring of spoofing and things like that. I also like the user monitoring as well as the network logging capabilities."
"It is very stable and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives us visibility of rogue traffic that is on the network."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I have found that it has a good GUI and user-friendly administration."
"Network tracking is the most valuable feature of Network Analyzer."
"The solution is useful for monitoring network devices."
"It is highly customizable and can be integrated well with third-party software."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"The solution offers very good system monitoring. It's easy to manage your network, as well as your hardware and software. It's really useful."
"The network monitoring feature, especially, stands out to me."
"I was under impression that Darktrace's automatic blocking would be an out-of-the-box feature, but we had to integrate it with our firewall to get it to block automatically. The salesperson should be upfront and explain that you need to integrate it with your network. I would also like to see more reporting on risk. Banks in my region want to see at a glance the risk level of various assets."
"In terms of improvements, fine-tuning is the area where we have to spend some time because it works on unsupervised machine learning. It would be good if they can improve their algorithm or technical functionality to reduce the fine-tuning effort. They can also come up with something at the endpoint level. So far, Darktrace has been a network detection response (NDR) solution. It does not offer much at the endpoint level or on user-client devices or servers. There should be more visibility at the endpoint level. It would be good to have the detection and response at the endpoint level by Darktrace. It should also have integration with an agile environment so that we can have continuous development and continuous integration in the application development environment. This is currently not there. It should also have internet-facing platform visibility, which is currently missing. They also need to improve the reporting and management dashboards. Currently, these are not so easy for a non-technical person. All these features would make Darktrace much better, and they would also be helpful in selling more solutions."
"The price point for the product was too high for what our possible use case could be."
"We'd like threat hunting, and we'd like to see a global solution that can automate vulnerability scans. I know it is something they are working on."
"Its threat analyzer could be better. It should also have agents. They should improve this product by installing agents for the machine to get more visibility. Currently, they are monitoring only the network. They should also monitor the agents from inside. It should also have a better pricing plan because it is an expensive product."
"I think there is some MSSP missing."
"The solution could be easier to use."
"Darktrace needs to automate the reports of false positives, botnets and everything."
"The bandwidth for its front-end version needs enhancement."
"Nagios Network Analyzer should integrate an application monitoring solution to monitor application bandwidth usage."
"It has an old-fashioned interface."
"There are some loopholes you need to be aware of from a security perspective."
"They need to have some automation models embedded in them."
"The graphics and reports can be a little bit better."
"I think the reports can be improved. They're adopted."
"It's very hard to install materials. You need a lot of documentation. They should make it easier to install and configure the solution."
Darktrace is ranked 1st in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 65 reviews while Nagios Network Analyzer is ranked 10th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 9 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Nagios Network Analyzer is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios Network Analyzer writes "User friendly, cloud scalability, with surpassed return on investment goals". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Nagios Network Analyzer is most compared with Vectra AI. See our Darktrace vs. Nagios Network Analyzer report.
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