We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics 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."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"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."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"The product is old and not updated."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 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". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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