TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki Insight

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Meraki Insight is a network analytics tool that supports troubleshooting, and helps IT administrators optimize the end user experience, so as to significantly reduce the time it takes to isolate network or application problems.N/A

    Colasoft Capsa

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AColasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Meraki InsightColasoft Capsa
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Meraki InsightColasoft Capsa
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco Meraki InsightColasoft Capsa
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki InsightColasoft Capsa
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki InsightColasoft Capsa
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Within healthcare, services, or manufacturing organizations the Cisco Meraki systems have performed remarkably well. The security standpoint of Cisco aligned equipment needs no additional mentioning other than they are the top choice for Federal, State, and Local governments as well as a plethora of organizations from different market areas.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Colasoft
    Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Cisco
    • Configuration options.
    • Easy to use Dashboard.
    • Reporting
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Colasoft
    • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
    • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
    • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Cisco
    • Expensive maintenance fee.
    • Expensive equipment.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Colasoft
    • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
    • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
    • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Meraki has made the world of management so much easier, allowing IT Administrators and Business Management personnel to enjoy more time on the business needs and less time managing equipment.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Colasoft
    Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Scalability
    Cisco
    Just about every department we've been asked to provide access to has been able to utilize this system. Be it from a CCTV perspective or for environment reporting, Cisco Meraki Insight can fit into this situation with ease, and without a great deal of training, our users found the system very intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Colasoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The ease of use saved us many hours of billable time.
    • Support added lots of value.
    • Licensing and equipment cost really put a damper on overall value (being so high).
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Colasoft
    • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
    • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots