We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"I would like to see better filters."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"There are some areas for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. There are some challenges with the solution when compared to other monitoring tools such as difficulty in operations and difficulty with backup installation. My team is currently trying out different solutions but would need to see how it goes."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"The pricing is expensive."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM, Darktrace and ScienceLogic. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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