We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"The most valuable features are visibility, real-time, on-demand."
"If a lot of traffic from one site is hitting AWS Cloud or the data center, then we want to know which client is utilizing the most bandwidth. We will work with nGeniusONE to troubleshoot the issue."
"With the Vprobes, we quickly identified issues on the application servers, which we normally couldn't, where it usually would be a full circle round between our NOC and server people."
"The valuable features include packet analysis, packet capture, and [that] it's easy to use."
"The installation process is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is being able to drill down into any kind of troubles that are reported to us, by use of identifiers."
"The most valuable feature is visibility."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"They can improve the landing page in Meraki Dashboard. When I go into an organization, they can include a lot more infographics. They can also simplify it a bit and consolidate it. For example, if I've got five branches and I go into customer A's profile or organization, I'd like to see an infographic on the landing page providing a snippet of the entire network layout, that is, all branches in one snapshot. From there, I would like to go into the network that I want to work on or view."
"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."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"I would like to receive decent notification alerts regarding the license's expiry. Or any help on correcting or optimizing licenses, because in certain circumstances you can add a license but it's the wrong licensing. However, the Dashboard adds the license in some way, and you do not utilize it. You can simply extend the license's expiration date."
"A lot of tools highlight what's going on but they don't actually pinpoint the user experience. It would be good if there were a small message or something highlighting what the user experience is like and any degradation that's actually occurring."
"I would like more in-depth convergence between all the applications, especially when I look for information through a data mine."
"There is currently less visibility or GUI to analyse the packet for troubleshooting purposes."
"nGeniusONE could be improved by reducing the number of bare metal servers required to run it. Currently, you need a separate bare metal server for each of the following: Xfinity, ISNG, nGeniusONE, and CFS. It would be more cost-effective and less complex if all of these functionalities could be combined into a single bare metal server."
"In previous versions, we used to have an icon on the dashboard when the situation analysis would present an alert. It would be nice if that would be made available on the dashboard again. Something that could be customizable to only illuminate on certain applications."
"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE can improve the detection of what area of the infrastructure could be having an issue, such as an application, server, or network. It needs to find evidence of a fault."
"On a network the size of ours, the loading times seem a little extensive, 20 or 30 seconds to load up some graphs."
"Another thing that would help out is if they packaged the NetFlow monitor into nGeniusONE. Their NetFlow monitor works with nGeniusONE where you can actually get the netflow of pretty much anything you hook it up to. But it's a separate box that you have to buy. If there was a way that could package that into nGeniusONE, it would be a complete package straight out of the box."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is rated 8.2. 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 NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics and SolarWinds NPM. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE report.
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