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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACisco Catalyst SD-WAN is a software-defined wide area network solution designed to simplify and optimize enterprise network connectivity in complex digital landscapes. It enables organizations to connect any user to any application, whether on-premises, in data centers, or across multiple clouds, with integrated capabilities for multicloud support, security, predictive automation, and enhanced network visibility—all built on a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)-enabled…N/A

    Dynatrace

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADynatrace is an enterprise software platform that provides Application Performance Management (APM), full-stack Observability, and automated operational analytics across multi-cloud and hybrid IT environments. The platform ingests telemetry data—including metrics, logs, traces, and user-experience data—to automate system health monitoring, root-cause fault detection, and digital performance management.

    $0

    per synthetic request

    Pricing
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Synthetic Monitoring
    $0.001
    per synthetic request
    Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
    $0.002
    per hour for any size pod
    Real User Monitoring
    $0.00225
    per session
    Application Security
    $0.018
    per hour for 8 GIB host
    Infrastructure Monitoring
    $0.04
    per hour for any size host
    Full-Stack Monitoring
    $0.08
    per hour for 8 GIB host
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    133 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    206 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    116 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    169 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    135 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    201 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    149 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    109 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    162 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (150 ratings)
    8.0
    (345 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (67 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WANDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    It's great for connectivity. I think if you're looking at. There's a lot of players out there that do SD- WAN, you can do hosted solutions, you can do your own. If you're looking to do it yourself, I think this product works out well. I do know it's hosted elsewhere by some other companies, but for us, we want the control and we don't have a huge amount of sites, so being able to control that's important and the data that we can get out of the product, we can see just seeing the application experience through Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, really gives us good information.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace is well suited to a number of tasks. It is important to determine who the end users are and gather good information to tailor their experience accordingly. For instance, business/marketing should not have access to some of the more technical data, and business metrics can be a distraction for IT operations personnel.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • We are able to use a multiple different circuits to go into the cloud, so we are not relying on just one particular private wireless. We're relying on wine circuits, ethernet, ethernet out. So it provides us that flexibility where we didn't have that before. Provides security that is very robust and flexible and scalable and it provides us with, the biggest thing is redundancy, where we have backup. For example, we have a Starlink for nuclear power plants. If our main circuits go down, we have that. And without Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN it would be very hard to actually achieve, to accomplish true redundancy. So we're happy with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN in that regard.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    • We loved Dynatrace's ability to show the data flow - from the front end points through the back end points straight to the database and various API's. It was advanced in its data visualization. This is useful for debugging - showing when/where the errors are. It can even enable non-technical individuals in the corporation to help debug
    • Dynatrace has some great highly customizable integration options as well as monitoring. You can configure your layout & integration options to create custom monitoring alerts for your applications performance. Further you can increase the extensibility of using a REST API on your architecture.
    • Some advanced dev-ops systems are utilizing Kubernetes/docker aswell as Node.JS - Dynatrace was able to log and help understand all of our dev-ops needs. It gave us native alerts based off of deviations from the baseline that we set during initial configuration. These metrics are priceless.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • I will say the way we use it now, and I think what happened was the way it was deployed, it was fine, but unfortunately over the course of the years we've gotten a little out of hand with our device templates and feature templates. I think if there's any form of feedback that I would give to Cisco is how do we find ways to improve the environment as it stands so we get to a certain point with the environment and then we don't know how to undo it or fix it or optimize the environment. Because right now we're in a position where we're playing a lot of catch up and clean up and if there was a way or some tool or feature that we can take advantage of that would allow us to optimize that environment where we will kind of corner ourselves into a lot of problems in the future. There's some feature or something that we could take advantage of that will allow us to optimize that environment and not let it get out of control pretty easily. That would be my suggestion.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    • Dynatrace does not monitor easily on AIX OS.
    • Dynatrace does not monitor easily on a C-based application.
    • The way DPGR is addressed by Dynatrace is not very complete, and not clear. One thing is to mask the IP and request attributes but is not enough, the replay session feature is great but raises serious questions about user tracking.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    I would rate SD-WAN highly because it has significantly improved network performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency for my organization. Its ability to optimize traffic dynamically, enhance security, and simplify management across multiple locations has been invaluable. With SD-WAN, we’ve reduced dependency on costly MPLS, improved cloud application performance, and gained greater control over our network infrastructure.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    We have already renewed our purchase with the company. They make it easy for us to get a temporary license for our contingency site that is only used for testing twice a year. We are expanding our license with for this tool. We find it very useful and will renew it again.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    The niche configurations are given equal focus as the standard use cases, which can make onboarding difficult in the beginning (ie why am I not using an entire tab of the portal), but aside from that part, the dashboard is relatively easy to navigate and apply the configuration. The metrics and analytics available are also nice to have in a single pane.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace is great to use once you understand how to use it correctly and get used to the layout of it. While I do not actively use it every day, whenever I do use it, I do have to get refamiliarized with it. However, once you have your dashboards setup correctly with the data that you want to see when you first login to Dynatrace, it's amazing.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    I think if we could afford, we could have HA inplace but we planned out outage and workaround to avoid any outages.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    It does slow down over the period but it's same with other product. you need to clear/reboot services.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Al ser soluciones integradas del portafolio de soluciones de Cisco, el soporte es transversal a cada uno de los componentes implementados, teniendo el cliente la capacidad de resolver sus inconvenientes bajo una misma infraestructura que está totalmente homologada, satisfacciendo de esta manera, las necesidades del cliente asi como permitiendo, que este se concentre en su negocio. Since the Cisco SD-WAN tools are a part of Cisco’s broader portfolio of solutions, support cross-cuts to each of our deployed components, with our company as the customer having the ability to solve our problems through the same, approved infrastructure. Their support team easily satisfies the customer’s needs so that they continue to focus on business functions.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Given that Dynatrace has become an informal industry standard, the plethora of information available on forums is massive. Most problems or roadblocks you come across are most likely (almost certainly, in fact) already solved and solutions available on these forums. The tech support at Dynatrace is also quite good, with prompt and knowledgeable people at their end.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    I was late to participate but my team was very happy with the outcome.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We've used the old Cisco SD-WAN, which no longer exists. It was a lot more complex to configure what is now called Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. So they've definitely come a long way in that it is a lot less complicated to set up and template based.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Synthetic Monitoring automatically does what other products do only through the use of other tools or through the development of user applications that still have a high cost of maintenance. The other products are not immediately usable and require many customizations. Through the use of configuration automatisms, you can be immediately operational and, in our case, we detected several imperfections in the applications.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    I didn't take part of this decision but it always multiyear contract get best discount.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Cisco
    Really strength in scalability. Only thigs it's depends on some prototype Cisco product which you can't work with other Cisco products.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Our branch offices can connect to our enterprise network and the internet quickly and securely, which has helped to increase productivity and reduce downtime.
    • We have been able to reduce our dependence on expensive MPLS connections, and instead utilize a combination of broadband and LTE connections, which are more cost-effective
    • The centralized location improves network visibility and troubleshooting process
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    Dynatrace LLC
    • Thanks to Dynatrace we have been able to effectively challenge and collaborate with service providers and outsourced IT teams.
    • Thanks to Dynatrace we have reduced MTTR on troubleshooting by a magnitude of four.
    • The performance analyses our team has done with Dynatrace earned us trust among management, business teams, and IT teams.
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