We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Nagios XI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"The deployment was a breeze. It is a very innovative and robust platform that allows us to bi-directionally stitch together data elements from Netflow-enabled devices to provide a context for network utilization."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Nagios XI report.
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