We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Flowmon 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"The solution's analytics and thrust detection capabilities are good. We're still adjusting it. It's a little hypersensitive, but it is working right now."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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 is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"I would like to see better filters."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"The licensing price could be better."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Flowmon is rated 8.0. 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, WhatsUp Gold, Plixer Scrutinizer and Vectra AI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Flowmon report.
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