We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."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."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"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."
"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."
"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."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"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."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"Support could be much better."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 36th in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. Meraki Dashboard is rated 9.0, while vRealize Network Insight 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 vRealize Network Insight writes "Manageable, user-friendly, and easy to set up". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Auvik, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront, Cisco Secure Workload, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix and ThousandEyes.
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