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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki Insight

    Score8.9 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

    PingPlotter

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/APingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier for everyone from online gamers and video streamers to VoIP admins and IT pros. Features for remote deployment, network monitoring, scripting, and a web interface are included along with several additional capabilities.

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    Cisco Meraki InsightPingPlotter
    Editions & Modules
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    PingPlotter Free
    $0.00
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    PingPlotter Free
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    PingPlotter Standard
    $6.99
    per user per month
    PingPlotter Professional
    $29.00
    per user per month
    PingPlotter Standard
    $39.99
    per user
    PingPlotter Professional
    $349.00
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Meraki InsightPingPlotter
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco
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    Pingman Tools
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco Meraki InsightPingPlotter
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Cisco Meraki Insight and PingPlotter
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki Insight
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    Ratings
    PingPlotter
    8.2
    22 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings9.314 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings8.822 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings6.817 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings9.214 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings6.713 Ratings
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    Auvik
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    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Nmap
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki InsightPingPlotter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.6
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki InsightPingPlotter
    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.
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    Pingman Tools
    It is well suited for performing monitoring and testing from a single device. It is less appropriate if you have to monitor from multiple different endpoints. That type of deployment would be more of an enterprise application. If you are looking for an end user monitoring solution then PingPlotter is the one for you.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Configuration options.
    • Easy to use Dashboard.
    • Reporting
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    Pingman Tools
    • Monitor traffic in network
    • Measure stops when contacting network locations such as websites
    • Measures the lag and latency it takes to contact network locations
    • Gives you both induvidual measurements as well as good oversight
    • identifies when network lag or disconnect occurs
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Expensive maintenance fee.
    • Expensive equipment.
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    Pingman Tools
    • Its a little confusing to see which targets are currently running pings and which ones are displayed in the plots.
    • Starting and stopping pings requires a right click and that would be better with a play/pause button I think.
    • Ability to drag and drop the graphs to reorder them.
    • more columns to show which targets are running and which are displayed. Currently this is done with symbols so you cant sort by just the running targets for example I've found.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Pingman Tools
    I installed it and it just started working. I realized I could then tweak it to show what I needed but didn't have to spend a long time configuring it before use, editing YAML files etc. Maybe that's fine for a network professional, but I only need this software if something goes wrong, and then need it to work quickly out of the box.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Pingman Tools
    I have not had much contact with the PingPlotter support, only one time have I went to them and it was a positive experience. The questions I had were answered quickly and professionally. I have no issue with the experience I had with the Support team. This was from before and after the purchase of the product.
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    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.
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    Pingman Tools
    A balance of a generic tool vs a network equipment product is necessary when investigating network incidents or disruptions. Need to train the engineer to use both tools to perform their analysis and to dive down to the issues as fast as they can. Experience with the tools will continue to play a part if we were to adopt PingPlotter
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    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.
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    Pingman Tools
    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).
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    Pingman Tools
    • Great ROI, troubleshooting time has been reduced by 90%
    • Network Discoveries used to take 2 to 3 hours and were inconsistent - now it is a matter of minutes
    • lacks integration into our MSP toolkit, and we now use it as a stand alone product
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