We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"I think that their LAN automation is a very good feature."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"The product offers an intuitive and automated way to manage user networks. It gives me an insight into the network health."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is very versatile in terms of analytics."
"I can create my own program sensor. This means I can add extra monitoring capabilities into the already fundamentally strong foundation."
"The scalability is good. You can improve a remote host or the clustering. This gives it the flexibility to monitor another infrastructure remotely."
"It is a very stable solution. There are no bugs, glitches and we have not experienced any crashing."
"Stable and scalable network monitoring tool. Installation is simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are user-friendly, and the graphical interface is good for all the network devices that are mapped in this organization. It's very easy to find reports for any devices that we are looking for."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime."
"The solution is very easy to use and the web provides information with ease."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"In terms of the clustering part, there are some concerns."
"It seems to be a little bit more centered toward wireless than wired. You've got more options you can do wirelessly than you can with the wired switches, but it works for what we need it to do. We would like to see a little bit more about the traffic, and we're looking at what's out there to see about that. We are looking at something that might give us a bit more insight into the actual traffic. If they had the full functionality on the wired side, as they do on the wireless side in terms of being able to view traffic and everything, it would be good."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"Cisco DNA Center was a new technology for us, at the beginning, it was not easy to do, but Cisco did a lot of training with us to a level we could handle everything. The team is managing itself now without the assistance of Cisco."
"PRTG Network Monitor needs to show bandwidth utilization in proper graphs. It isn't easy to learn."
"The icons on PRTG's network diagram are hard to find. For example, finding the icons for firewalls and servers is difficult, so we're struggling to create the network topology."
"Improvements in data storage flexibility, such as allowing customers to specify data retention periods, would enhance PRTG."
"It would be nice if it gave us alerts via Gmail or SMS message."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by having better integration with devices."
"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."
"The scalability of this solution could improve as well as the automated provisioning of the infrastructure."
"We have had a few issues with the web elements, as far as the dashboard. With the dashboard, it has to be manually refreshed. Occasionally, we reboot the server, or at least web services, due to the web aspect."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 37 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". 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 DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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