We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and SolarWinds ipMonitor 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."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"The initial setup was easy."
"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."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"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 the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"The solution can be expensive."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"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."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 71st in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0. 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 SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with SolarWinds NPM.
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