We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and WhatsUp Gold 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"What I love most about the Meraki Dashboard are its user-friendly features."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity in navigating through the dashboard. It's well set out, and the layout is nice and user friendly. A lot of clients enjoy seeing layer 7 visibility. They get a good indication and insight into what is happening in their network and what applications are being used the most. They can then customize and give preference to business-critical applications."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"It's a scalable solution."
"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."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"It is stable."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"What needs improvement in Meraki Dashboard is its configuration. It'll also be better if the tool has more functionality, and that is what I'd like to see in its next release."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 45th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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