We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and PRTG Network Monitor 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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us."
"The remote probe feature in PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor remote systems or your network at a lower cost than other solutions."
"Speed of deployment is one of the most valuable features."
"The up-to-date graphs and the history are very good."
"PRTG has improved our visibility and response time to issues related to remote sites."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime."
"The real-time monitoring feature in PRTG is invaluable to me"
"It is nice to have one place where all the information is right there in front of us."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"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."
"Improvements in data storage flexibility, such as allowing customers to specify data retention periods, would enhance PRTG."
"PRTG Network Monitor needs to show bandwidth utilization in proper graphs. It isn't easy to learn."
"In terms of sensors and probes, it would be really cool if PRTG had a purely Azure-based solution. We had to install a probe on one of our cloud servers and then let that probe out from there. It would be really cool if it just monitored Azure without having to install something on the device."
"Integration into service management ticketing systems could be better. They should simplify the integration into big service management platforms like ServiceNow, Remedy, and Cherwell. They're really into monitoring, but they don't do any self-resolution. It would be better if the company moved more into the AIOps space so that you could actually kick off some remedies. I know that you can execute some commands from the tool, but you need to develop those all yourself. It would be really handy if they had some auto-remedy scripts that they could develop on top."
"There seems to be a big jump from the basic scan to the really thorough scan. There is a big jump in the quantity of sensors it uses for certain things. One minute you might get ten and then the next you get 200. There seems to be a big jump between the two at times."
"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."
"The product could be improved by being cross-platform friendly."
"Having a Unix implementation or Unix installation could be an improvement. Right now, it's based just on Windows, and that's a problem for some customers."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while PRTG Network Monitor 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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