We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and ThousandEyes 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 works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The company provides excellent service."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"It's an expensive solution."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, Vectra AI, Arista NDR and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM, AppDynamics and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. ThousandEyes report.
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