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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACisco Meraki SD-WAN is a cloud-managed solution that simplifies and secures wide area networking across branch, campus, and remote locations. Built on Meraki’s dashboard, it delivers centralized visibility, automation, and traffic optimization without the complexity of traditional WAN deployments. The solution improves application performance by dynamically routing traffic based on real-time conditions, integrating advanced security, and providing seamless multicloud connectivity. With support…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.

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    Pricing
    Cisco Meraki 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 Meraki 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 Meraki SD-WANDynatrace
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    78 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    206 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    78 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    169 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    77 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    201 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    149 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    77 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    162 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Meraki SD-WANDynatrace
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    8% 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 Meraki SD-WAN and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% 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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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki SD-WANDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (87 ratings)
    8.0
    (345 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (2 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
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki SD-WANDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I believe it is well suited for "pop-up" offices of a small number of people. 5 to 10 is ideal. It can be setup with a minimum of involvement from the IT infrastructure group. It is a very simple way to connect a remote site securely and quickly with the confidence that the connection will be stable. I believe it is less suited for a large organization requiring complex routing and routing protocols. It only works with Meraki endpoints and so there must be Meraki firewalls at both ends. It cannot be used with IPSEC tunnels
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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
    • I really like the firewalls and the access points, like the wireless ones. From a wireless access point perspective, we recently moved to the new MR57s, multi-gig bandwidth as well as Wi-Fi 6, which helps users connect wirelessly regardless of where they sit in the office. The experience they get doesn’t matter wherever they move—it’s fantastic. So we’ve moved from the previous iteration of Meraki Access Points to the new iteration, like two weeks ago, and we’ve seen a major shift in the user experience.
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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 personally think that this particular place is on the logging side. I have seen where the event log is that what they call in terms of capturing all the log events is the area which I personally feel can actually be improved. Even this could be similar, like how I said about packet capture where you could have a flexibility of having a high level information or deep level regardless you should have that kind of option where you could also see the logging site as granular as per the requirement. So that's the area which I think is a bit little behind compared to other vendors.
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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
    Because so far the solution showed great stability during the time, easy to use and deploy. There is still room for improvements like adding a smarter way to manage the policies to apply to the tunneled traffic, today the way to configure and manage them is quite old style, It would be better an "object" oriented way to create them.
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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
    Its usable very well
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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
    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
    Fast and efficient. The only issue currently is that the support is only overseas support and not in South Africa, which causes delays in resolution for some cases. Escalating issues is quite simple and the opening of new cases from the dashboard is easy. I have never had a support issue that could not be resolved.
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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
    We did a very stringent valuation a few years ago. And we evaluated probably about a dozen suppliers on paper that we evaluate just by capabilities. And, we of some other business criteria, and we whittled that down to a list of five. And out of those five, we brought four of those into our lab environment where we ran approximately 350 different test cases on, we really beat on it pretty heavily. And some of those other suppliers would've been companies like Fortinet Versa Networks Silver Peak, which is now owned by Hewlett Packard.
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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
    With the implementation of Cisco Meraki SD-WAN on our new site, this has enabled us to optimize the bandwidth of our 3 links. Thanks to this, updates pushed by Microsoft Intune, such as Microsoft CRM operations, are running smoothly. The same applies to SAP and our Teams meetings. And I almost forgot our Cisco telephone system.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Cisco Meraki SD-WAN gave us a new perspective on SDN, ZTP and other automation tools we didn't have before
    • The sizing of Meraki MX series cannot compete very large and robust networks, only if we use virtual appliances. In this case, I would recommend on other vendors like Fortinet
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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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