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Meraki Dashboard pros and cons

Vendor: Cisco

4.3 out of 5

67 reviews
98% willing to recommend

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Pros & Cons summary

Meraki Dashboard offers scalability for managing networks and clients with a single-pane-of-glass view for monitoring, reducing onsite visits. It supports easy setup, automation of updates, and real-time remote management. Despite in-depth centralized control, its high cost, limited routing table, lack of native VPN support, and integration issues with non-Cisco platforms and scalability limitations are concerns, particularly for larger enterprises seeking comprehensive solutions.

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PROS

It is highly scalable, allowing for effective management of large numbers of networks and clients.

It provides a comprehensive single-pane-of-glass view for monitoring and managing networks, reducing on-site visit requirements.

It supports easy setup, management, and automation of updates, ensuring minimal maintenance efforts.

Cloud-based functionality enhances real-time updates, visibility, and remote management capabilities.

It delivers exceptional centralized control with multisite visibility, optimizing time spent on troubleshooting and responses.

CONS

Meraki Dashboard can be expensive, with the cost and licensing being a significant concern.

The limited routing table needs improvement, with a need for increased numbers and table summarization.

Meraki Dashboard lacks a native VPN client and proper integration with VPN solutions.

There are scalability limitations, making it less suitable for large enterprises.

Integration with non-Cisco platforms could be improved.

Meraki Dashboard Pros review quotes

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IT Network Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 1, 2026

The fact that Meraki Dashboard is cloud-based makes it easier for me because I have less traffic going through the data center, it is more stable, and Adecco has access because the main account or main management is done by Adecco, so I am just a user of the solution, and it makes my life easier.

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Network Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 11, 2026

Meraki Dashboard has impacted my organization positively by making management of the large number of networks that we have much easier.

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Technical Support Engineer at AlifCloud IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 2, 2026

Meraki Dashboard provides real-time updates and has virtually no downtime.

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Euc Architect at AHF Products

Jun 1, 2026

Meraki Dashboard has everything together that legacy Cisco did not, with a simple interface that is easy to use and has made our expansions and acquisitions pretty easy.

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Sairam PremVangala

Network Technology Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 22, 2025

I use Meraki Dashboard for monitoring purposes, the detailed visibility feature of Meraki Dashboard is useful for troubleshooting purposes, and it helps a lot.

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Muhammad Awais Afzal

Sr Ict Engineer at ICAD-KSA

Sep 1, 2026

My customers have been convinced and are using Meraki Dashboard for the past 2.5 years, and they are very happy.

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Kayton Tomaszyk

Principal Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 2, 2026

The features I prefer most include the ease of deployment, the visibility, the analytics, and the ability to drop one anywhere and configure it remotely.

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Video Conference Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 2, 2026

I assess the operational efficiency of Cisco in my IT environment as great; it is what we use for everything.

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System Analyst II at IT solutions consultings

Feb 7, 2026

A specific outcome that improved after I started using Meraki Dashboard is our response time, which greatly improved, and our end customers are very happy.

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Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 2, 2026

When we went to Meraki Dashboard, we were so happy we were jumping up and down.

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Meraki Dashboard Cons review quotes

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IT Network Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 1, 2026

I know there are some initiatives for that, but there is no consolidated tool or console that allows me to manage globally all the devices I have.

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Network Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 11, 2026

I give it a seven because it's not perfect by any means.

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Technical Support Engineer at AlifCloud IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 2, 2026

Regarding visibility, I have had better experiences with Auvik network management for end-to-end visibility.

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Euc Architect at AHF Products

Jun 1, 2026

Meraki Dashboard can be improved with bulk changes across all the networks to manage group networks. Functionality is a little limited, and that is probably the only thing that I would say is a negative.

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Sairam PremVangala

Network Technology Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 22, 2025

I appreciate the security that has been provided by Meraki, but they specifically require port 80 which is highly vulnerable towards Meraki domain itself, so I would like to remove it.

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Muhammad Awais Afzal

Sr Ict Engineer at ICAD-KSA

Sep 1, 2026

The aspect I do not prefer about Meraki Dashboard is that it is on cloud and you are exposing your management plan to the cloud.

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Kayton Tomaszyk

Principal Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 2, 2026

We are at the point now where we are starting to not involve tech support because we are not finding any value in it.

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Video Conference Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 2, 2026

I think Meraki Dashboard can be improved by trying easier menus because the menus get a little cluttered.

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System Analyst II at IT solutions consultings

Feb 7, 2026

Regarding Meraki Dashboard, I would suggest improvements to Cisco ISE integration.

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Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 2, 2026

The process of setting up cost and licensing was not quick. It was pretty clunky and it was a challenge.

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