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    Cisco ThousandEyes

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ACisco ThousandEyes empowers organizations to assure every digital experience across every network, everywhere, every time.N/A

    Fullstory

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions by injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack. The technology's behavioral data transforms digital visit into actionable insights.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco ThousandEyesFullstory
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco ThousandEyesFullstory
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Fullstory
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    118 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    66 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    96 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    119 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    68 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    Cisco ThousandEyesFullstory
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Cisco ThousandEyes and Fullstory
    Feature
    Cisco ThousandEyes
    -
    Ratings
    Fullstory
    6.2
    19 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.917 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.913 Ratings
    Mobile App Analytics00 Ratings6.412 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Cisco ThousandEyes and Fullstory
    Feature
    Cisco ThousandEyes
    -
    Ratings
    Fullstory
    9.2
    49 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Heatmap tool00 Ratings9.937 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Form fill analysis00 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings9.928 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings7.923 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay00 Ratings10.048 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings10.043 Ratings
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco ThousandEyesFullstory
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (126 ratings)
    10.0
    (72 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    9.7
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.7
    (6 ratings)
    8.3
    (61 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (56 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco ThousandEyesFullstory
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Unified communications real-time analysis is one of the biggest points of the solution. You can see your traffic path and find issues before, during and after the calls. This is very useful for analyzing VoIP and video conferencing problems like in WebEx, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. It helps to see network issues like packet loss, jitter, or latency that can make call quality bad. Another good use case is checking cloud apps and SaaS services. Many companies use external platforms like Microsoft Azure, 365, Salesforce, or AWS. It lets Networking teams see the network path from users to these services so they can find if problems come from the company network, the internet provider, or the cloud service. Also, it is good for companies using mix of on-prem and cloud. It shows how traffic moves between different parts of the network, so IT teams can see where a problem happens and fix it faster. There are different types of agents that we can use in Cisco ThousandEyes. Enterprise agents can be use for a relative big amount of synthetic test. Endpoint agents are install in user PC or MAC laptops to check network quality from the client side. WebEx devices also have built-in agents that help to see performance problems in meetings, making it easy to find what is causing a bad call. Maybe it's not the best solution if what you want to measure is not HTTPs based or hasn't an API. Also if your scenario is Zoom Rooms, you won't have the same level of integration that it has for WebEx and Microsoft solutions.
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    Fullstory
    It was extremely useful in identifying places in our product where things weren't functioning, or where it looked like action was available to the end user but in reality, it was not and therefore caused lots of confusion. It doesn't help as much in other scenarios to see what catches a user's Eye or where they go if they leave our application as well as an actual in-person interview would help with eye-tracking software.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Cisco ThousandEyes does the holistic discovery of the end components, the network components, and it's really fast at identifying where the issue is, which is not normally identified by the classic monitoring tools. So it's quite a fast identifying the issue of the networks and Cisco ThousandEyes also provides a very good real user end user monitoring experience for the end customers. So those are the two real life and also very good examples for Cisco ThousandEyes.
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    Fullstory
    • Tracks users' online experiences from start to finish.
    • Makes it easy to share a customer's experiences with the rest of my team.
    • Allows me to use different methods to find evidence of a customer's experience.
    • Shows page insights via segmentation that help me know where to improve my site.
    • Tracks error clicks and dead clicks for quick insights into site improvements.
    • Integrates with HelpScout for easy access to customer problem-solving.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The elephant in the room is going to be cost. ThousandEyes is a great tool, but you will pay for it. There are other services that do a good job at providing a smaller subset of features compared to ThousandEyes. If all you need is that particular subset of features, ThousandEyes may not make fiscal sense for your organization.
    • As a subset of the cost issue, within the last 18 months or so the pricing on enterprise (local) agents has been modified in a way that seems not to benefit the customer. Previously enterprise agents had a flat monthly cost associated with them with unlimited test usage (the only limit on test usage was based on concurrent tests running at any given point in time). This meant that instead of using a cloud agent and paying per-test, you had the option of spinning up an cheap Digital Ocean droplet and creating your own cloud agent for external testing without using Cloud Agents. When the change was made they eliminated the flat per-agent cost and instead treated the pricing the same as that of the cloud agents but cutting the number of "cloud units" per test in half for tests run from enterprise agents. For organizations with under-utilized enterprise agents, this may be helpful financially, but for organizations that push their local agents to the limit, the cost skyrocketed.
    • BGP monitor peering sessions have been less than reliable. The data doesn't seem to be an issue, but the sessions seem to bounce or fail altogether on a fairly consistent basis. The routers or servers with which your routers peer sit behind some firewalls that have caused issues in the past.
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    Fullstory
    • The ramp-up time to learn the entire product can take a little while. There are just so many absolutely wonderful tools and different ways to look at the same type of information that it can take a new user a few weeks to understand and then more time to master. However, FullStory has a ton of training resources to help with that! A lot of my own teammates have taught themselves FullStory through those training resources.
    • The UX of the product is totally wonderful, but there are tiny things that make getting to certain parts of the product slightly more challenging (like clicking into a modal in a modal). Sometimes buttons or links are placed out of my field of view, but those are minor things I notice because I work in UX.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    The software does it's job extremely well and the system makes it very user friendly to get into. When looking for software I prefer to not need a PHD to operate it. Having a great UI and simple setup makes it easy to include more members of our team to get more value out of the platform.
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    Fullstory
    It's been a phenomenal tool for us; every department that uses it has found something new and unexpected that it can do that they're really excited about. Even if we *only* used it for bug triage, it would be worth our time and money. The fact that we can use it for so many other things as well--gauging how customers interact and use our site, identifying UI problems, etc.--is above and beyond
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    Usability
    Cisco
    There is definitely a learning curve to ThousandEyes, but once you understand how the client deployment works and how to set up monitoring, things go pretty smoothly. I think the initial setting up of clients on endpoints can be a little tricky though.
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    Fullstory
    Because everything seems to be easy to find and it doesn't take long at all to learn how to use the product
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Being cloud hosted means that you are at the mercy of Cisco web services, but we've had absolutely no issues with its availability.
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    Fullstory
    We've never had issues with availability
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    Performance
    Cisco
    The client is very lightweight on endpoints and the user interface is very fast and fluid.
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    Fullstory
    It seems the performance is really good and always loads quickly
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    You have online support from the tool itself 24/7 and they are very responsive. We also have a specific account manager and specific engineer assigned to help us with very specific questions for our environment. The level of response to our requirements is always super high. We have requested specific features to be added and these have been developed and introduced very quick tot he product (within weeks). Their DevOps and agile approach seems to pay off.
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    Fullstory
    They have been overall pretty responsive and proactive. The tool is pretty straightforward to use. Most of the questions we have had to work with them on our how to use new features or adjust our integration to ensure we are gathering all the data from all of our tools.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    Our Cisco reps actually had someone teach us a few things about the functionality of ThousandEyes, and it helped a lot. The training was good and we had follow-up assistance as well when we had questions about the monitoring and reporting functions. Overall, we were satisfied with the training and support.
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    Fullstory
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Our implementation was pretty straightforward, with some issues loading clients on endpoints. We didn't have any notable issues, and I don't really have any additional insights.
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    Fullstory
    To successfully implement FullStory, it is important to plan your implementation carefully by defining your goals and user segments. You should also use tags and filters to analyze your user data, train your team to use FullStory effectively, and use FullStory in conjunction with other analytics tools to get a more complete picture of your user's behavior. By following these tips, you can gain valuable insights into your users' behavior and experiences, and use this information to improve your website or application.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    No one is better than the other. I can get different data and sometimes similar data, it's important to compare values and verify the data between the tools. Additionally, there are other functionalities that ThousandEyes has that the others don't, but it is also the other way around. I will always recommend to have available not 1 or 2, all possible available for your job.
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    Fullstory
    Smartlook is software that records users on a website
    and mobile app. Finding useful information within thousands of recordings is
    made quick and easy with features that help you accomplish this. I have chosen FullStory because it is easier to use and has more advanced features compared to Smartlook.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    The contract was fair and rolled up into some of our other contracts, so it was no big deal getting it up and running.
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    Fullstory
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    I think this product would be infinitely scalable since it's all cloud hosted and can support thousands of endpoints if needed. We are only using it for a limited number of endpoints, so we never really considered scalability.
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    Fullstory
    Full story was easy to scale with the growth of our teams and organisation
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Building the trust from our Merchants is core when you come to renewal time. Trust builds partnerships, builds stickiness and allows for easier upsells or contract renewals.
    • Having a champion in IT that touts your service is important to the business, it removes a large portion of friction in the business to get services implemented and working to its peak.
    • Flexibility in pricing can be better. How they measure the number of agents being used can get thorny. When you build and tear down virtual servers a lot it can appear there are more agents running than there are. Once we understood how they measure we were able to better utilize the product efficiently.
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    Fullstory
    • Triage for front end bugs - FullStory can sometimes help you spot a bug in action much more quickly than trying to recreate it on your own
    • Observing customers use new features and understanding why a new feature may be performing better or worse than expected
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    ScreenShots

    Cisco ThousandEyes Screenshots

    Screenshot of Global availability issues for users trying to use Slack application.Screenshot of The path visibility feature pinpointing where in the transit path an outage or event is occurring.Screenshot of ThousandEyes Internet Insights™, which combines a massive data set with algorithmic outage detection to provide near real-time insights into a business's SaaS applications.  and networks. Internet Insights can be used to manage digital experience at Internet scale.Screenshot of ThousandEyes Event Detection diagnosing events as server or network issue.

    Fullstory Screenshots

    Screenshot of AI-generated Summaries used to Take Action More QuicklyScreenshot of a Visualization of Behavioral Data with Custom DashboardsScreenshot of Ready-made for AI Behavioral Data Straight to the organization's Data EcosystemScreenshot of Fullstory's Session Replay, Combined with Dev ToolsScreenshot of Mobile App Behavioral Data