We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NPM 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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"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."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"It would be good to have high security."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NPM 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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