Simple Monitoring with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics as netflow monitoring of our network. This tool helps us monitor east/west and north/south traffic between all our network devices. From there we take advantage of the alerting Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics provides if it be anomalies or other areas of concern with traffic between all our assets. Once alerted we mitigate and escalate the issues to our support / infrastructure staff to investigate in more detail and remediate any issues that came up.
Pros
- Netflow
- Alerting / Watchlists
- Reporting
Cons
- More integrations with other Cisco tools or 3rd party vendors
- Add description of NetFlow probe, so you know which device it's configured on without logging into the actual switch
- Updated UI
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is well suited for network monitoring and starts off as learning how your day to day traffic flows amongst systems and assets. From there it can then pinpoint specific alerts that you have enabled to be monitored on your network. This gives us insight on any issues that may come up and how we can fix them. It also allows us to see what systems are consuming the most bandwidth and such from a big picture point of view.
