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."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."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"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 most valuable features of this solution are the logging, keeping threats under control, and keeping our data and environment secure."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"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."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"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."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"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."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
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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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