We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NetCrunch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, LogicMonitor and others in Network Monitoring Software."It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"What I found most valuable in the Meraki Dashboard is straight monitoring of the different devices, as well as the ability to easily set up VPNs, for example, both Meraki client VPNs and non-Meraki VPNs for different organizations that work with my company. I also like that the tool is a really good firewall."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"It's a scalable solution."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"Some features could be added."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 59th in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. Meraki Dashboard is rated 9.0, while NetCrunch is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Auvik, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Fortinet FortiSIEM and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor.
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