We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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 has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"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."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"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 part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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