We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NetCrunch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"The solution scales well."
"The feature I find most valuable is the single pane of glass where you can configure a monitor view, all from one dashboard. For example, on the wireless side, you can configure it under the configuration panel, and then view statistics like location analytics, user analytics, etc."
"It can analyze the traffic that it is picking up from what may be a rogue access point, and it is able to identify those and send relevant notifications."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"What needs improvement in Meraki Dashboard is its configuration. It'll also be better if the tool has more functionality, and that is what I'd like to see in its next release."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 76th in Network Monitoring Software. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while NetCrunch is rated 8.0. 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 SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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