Likelihood to Recommend At least for me, it is a very important tool to diagnose bandwidth / Routing issues. Any global company should have ThousandEyes, it will avoid you many headaches. You'll need to invest in servers (on-prem and remote) in all locations in which you need, you can take advantage of all the monitoring tools.
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This software is suited for a smaller organization with a small datacenter that uses mainly HP hardware. Once the environment gets larger it would pay to move to some of their paid for products
Read full review Pros Alerting on outages. ThousandEyes provides a few different options to receive alerts: you can have alerts emailed to a subset of (or all) users, there is a basic Slack integration, and if more flexibility is required (or your preferred method of being alerted isn't built-in) webhooks can be used to hit another API. Speeding up mean time to resolution (or mean time to innocence if you're a more siloed and blame-happy organization). Failure alerts can be configured to include the cause of the failure instead of just "resource x is down." For example, the alerts can come out and say that a website was down due to an HTTP 500, which will help prevent staff from spinning their wheels trying to diagnose the network from the client to the web server. Post mortems and root cause analyses. After an outage has been resolved, it is possible to go back for up to 30 days without losing any level of detail for the test in question, and to view information like the DNS response received, the network path taken by the traffic, and any added latency incurred by an individual link. It can also be used to view Internet routing changes surrounding the incident. Support. Every ticket or chat I have opened has been met by a friendly and helpful staff member that has been able to provide helpful insight into what is causing a particular issue, and what steps they will take on their side to resolve an issue or provide suggestions of steps to take on our side if necessary. Read full review Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at scanning for devices and adding them for monitoring is almost effortless. HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at detecting most HP hardware and integrating with local management software. Read full review Cons Continue to innovate and support more and more services. In the world of IOT and point to point traffic being more and more prevalent creating a flexible product is fantastic. Build on the end user product, last mile and even more sharing. Read full review Hewlett Packard Enterprise
I think some of the areas that HP Systems Insight Manager can improve is non HP hardware. This software also sometimes struggles handling larger environments. This software also has issues managing environments that aren't set up perfectly. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We will definitely renew and maybe even extend our usage of ThousandEyes. We have been using ThousandEyes now for a couple of years and it has shown us major benefits. With the new options it offers for SD-WAN for us it is a no brainer to renew our current licenses
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Usability I'm happy with the monitoring part, now if you want to know the benefits cost related and usability I'm not the person who can answer that.
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For basic functions it's very easy to set up and use. However, for more advanced functions it takes a lot of time to figure out its quirks
Read full review Support Rating 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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It's good for small organizations that use HP branded equipment
Read full review Alternatives Considered Simple Network Management Protocol cannot achieve what an agent-based monitoring solution can. Access layer testing gives you visibility into the user's endpoint. ThousandEyes is able to provide both telemetry and user experience in a bundled solution. The way that Cisco has built in the enterprise agents to their 9300 and 9500 switches has made exposure to the platform widespread.
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Some of the other products I use for system management are HP
SiteScope and SolarWinds Orion NPM and APM.
SiteScope is another good HP product but it isn't very cost effective to use for general system management. It's good for performing complex alerting and monitoring. SolarWinds makes a great product but it is better geared for gathering statistics and performance data real-time and historically. Again the cost of this product makes it ineffective for general system monitoring.
Read full review Return on Investment Real time visibility about network health can prepare us for outages Less time wasted troubleshooting end user network issues when ThousandEyes can give clarity which saves time doing extra work Before doing business with a SaaS product we can use ThousandEyes to give historical datat on network uptime. Read full review Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Since this software is free if you buy HP hardware the cost is nothing which is nice for cash strapped businesses. This software has a somewhat difficult time handling large environments where systems are not configured perfectly for this software. I would always recommend having multiples of this software installed for redundancy because generally unless it and the environment is properly configured it can require maintenance. Read full review ScreenShots Cisco ThousandEyes Screenshots