We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NETSCOUT vSTREAM 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."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"It's really user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass that allows us to identify issues across the entire network from one dashboard."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"Some features could be added."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 72nd in Network Monitoring Software. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while NETSCOUT vSTREAM 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 NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE.
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