We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG 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's a simple, functional solution."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"The solution scales well."
"We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"The ability to troubleshoot customers' connectivity has been very beneficial."
"I love the single pane of glass view. It makes it easier to not have to navigate everywhere. It allows more simplistic visibility, without having to go from tool to tool to tool, or from window to window to window."
"It's an easy product to set up."
"When we have mobile operators who are signal partners, where one is the roaming host and another is the roamer, we are able to see their traffic. Their packets are able to detect if any faults to develop, and at what point they fail."
"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."
"It is very rock solid. We hardly have any hardware issues."
"The most valuable features are speed and cost."
"The real-time troubleshooting and application segregation that you can do within it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"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."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"Some features could be added."
"The NetFlow Collectors could handle more flows per minute."
"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."
"The single pane of glass feed still needs work."
"It's not able to communicate with our probes."
"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."
"The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."
"Being able to manage the packet flow switches in nGeniusONE would be great."
"I would like to see an improved level of stitching between IPs."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is ranked 63rd in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is rated 8.4. 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 NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG writes "Once you know how to use the product, it's easy and simple ". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is most compared with NETSCOUT vSTREAM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Cisco Secure Network Analytics.
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