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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki Dashboard

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAs a cloud-managed network management solution, the Cisco Meraki Dashboard enables users to provision, configure, and troubleshoot global networking and IoT deployments.N/A

    Dynatrace

    Score8.5 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 Meraki DashboardDynatrace
    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 Meraki DashboardDynatrace
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Meraki DashboardDynatrace
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    113 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    208 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    106 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    171 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    112 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    203 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    79 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    151 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    97 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    164 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Meraki DashboardDynatrace
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Service configuration management00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Data backup and recovery00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Administrator access control00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco Meraki DashboardDynatrace
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    No answers on this topic
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    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Catalyst Center
    Score8.5 out of 10
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki DashboardDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (116 ratings)
    9.3
    (347 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 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
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki DashboardDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Well suited is if you do configuration one time and roll out to multiple sites, multiple networks, multiple wireless S societies. You create a profile and rollout, and you use automation that takes care of a lot of your manual work. So it's pretty suitable for those divers. Anything related to customization that a Cisco Meraki Dashboard doesn't offer and you use your other automation tool, I think there is an improvement for Cisco Meraki Dashboard to involve all those features and integrate with other third party services.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Oh, just the ease of use. I am not an IT technical expert by trade—I’m more on the leadership side. So this makes it easy for me to understand everything that is going on and be able to provide an honest review of how the organization is doing at that particular time.
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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
    • Some features are unavailable when the network doesn't have a switch (network topology, for example)
    • I wish there was an overview for all organizations with pending firmware updates, rather than going through one-by-one.
    • I would like to have some of the switch tools available for firewall devices (port cycling, line testing).
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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
    Very pleased with he product overall. it is used as expecting + easy to use and very scalable if we want to add new orgs
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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
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard is a modern interface that makes it easy to find devices and their health status. It has powerful remote tools that can help you manage every aspect of the network at a granular level. Something that may be frustrating is that some advanced settings are sometimes oversimplified, and the customization is limited.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace is feature rich and often many way to get to the required data. We have 150+ users and one thing we have to do is provide training. Otherwise users can get lost when drilling down through services and traces. The filtering options help to reduce the noise and focus on the area concerned. When give people access to logs we need guardrails to ensure queries are targeted. This helps with cost control.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Support seems very knowledgeable and provides detail summary about the call. They even follow up later to check on your case.
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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
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard is easy to use compared to other vendors. They do not have all the intricate configurations offered by products from competitors, but for the price point and what it gives you there is nothing better. The lower learning curve with onboarding a new hire and get them familiar with Meraki is much easier which our company loves.
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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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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • When there's an issue with communication to the cloud. EX: unable to fetch configs. This due to like new device being installed or if you have to factory reset the device. This has been a negative impact.
    • Incorrect status. Sometimes the status of the device or network is not reflected as it should be. This has had a negative impact in the past. However, for the most part, the Status is fairly accurate.
    • Incident response has been very good. Anytime an issue has been reported to Cisco regarding Cisco Meraki Dashboard, the issue is quickly investigated and doesn't take long to resolve.
    • Customer support and Cisco's technical team has been very helpful and responsive.
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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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