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Cisco ThousandEyes

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What is Cisco ThousandEyes?

Cisco ThousandEyes empowers organizations to assure every digital experience across every network, everywhere, every time.

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global availability issues for users trying to use Slack application.
the path visibility feature pinpointing where in the transit path an outage or event is occurring.
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.
ThousandEyes Event Detection diagnosing events as server or network issue.

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ThousandEyes a success!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco ThousandEyes to help our Managed Services team supporting our CX customers much more proactively in the Contact Centre space. It facilitates issues demarcation, provide instant snapshot, trends and historical data to really pinpoint issues that would take potentially days. weeks otherwise, even more so in intermittent issues. Thanks ThousandEyes and Cisco for providing this great solution!

Pros

  • Proactive issue demarcation
  • Historical data
  • Historical and live trends

Cons

  • Potentailly more user friendly dashboard

Return on Investment

  • Improved SLAs

Alternatives Considered

Cyara Platform

Other Software Used

Cyara Platform

Usability

Must to Have tool for Routing/Bandwidth Monitoring

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have 4 years of using ThousandEyes, and I usually use it to monitor the bandwidth between locations to specific destinations using our outbound connections (Proxy/Firewall), and is really handy for troubleshooting purposes, also you can create alerts to monitor evert X minutes if you have the connection values desired. It's a great tool to have in any IT Network Security related Team.

Pros

  • Latency Monitor from several locations in the world
  • Keepalive verification to endpoints
  • Alerts
  • Reports

Cons

  • Too expensive
  • License limitation
  • Settings can be complex

Alternatives Considered

OpenNMS Meridian, Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution and Splunk Cloud

Other Software Used

Splunk Cloud, OpenNMS Meridian

Usability

Robust, customizable monitoring solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco ThousandEyes to monitor nodes in colocation facilities around the USA. The biggest problem that Cisco ThousandEyes addresses is being able to do off-net test to compare between our network and external networks. This allows us to create historical baselines and verify web reachability for customers that may have issues getting to specific websites. Sometimes those issues are local but Cisco ThousandEyes helps us verify if they are global or part of a larger issue.

Pros

  • Easy to setup
  • Easy to use
  • Good support team, quick response
  • High level of customization for dashboards and testing

Cons

  • Pricing = unit cost

Return on Investment

  • Great ROI on using endpoint agents to help diagnose end user issues when they can't explain the issue.
  • The cost per unit should probably be evaluated, it's not awful pricing but doesn't feel like a big value when buying them in bulk like you'd think you could get.
  • Cisco ThousandEyes is a robust platform that has given our Network & Backbone teams the flexibility of testing and visibility into the network as a whole from many different levels.

Alternatives Considered

Kentik

Other Software Used

Kentik

Usability

Life is easier with Cisco ThousandEyes

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

End user network issues have never been able to get clear information on what is happening with end user devices and what is happening with their devices. With Cisco ThousandEyes it enables us to see what is happening at every step of the way and be able to tell the user what they are experiencing.

Pros

  • End users personal wireless suitability
  • End users experience
  • Network strength

Cons

  • Probably some built in tests rather than having to configure everything your self.
  • Dashboard could be a bit more intuitive

Return on Investment

  • Issues are resolved quicker

Other Software Used

Cisco Secure Firewall, Cisco AnyConnect

Cisco ThousandEyes survey

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

- for observability purpose

- Monitoring & alerting

- Identity issues before the Customer

Pros

  • Data Cathering
  • Alerting
  • Dashboard

Cons

  • I think that the Interfaces in Cisco ThousandEyes have room for improvement
  • I think that the Installationen procedure in Cisco ThousandEyes has room for improvement

Return on Investment

  • One impact Cisco ThousandEyes has on our organization's overall business objectives is an Improved Customer experience
  • Another impact Cisco ThousandEyes has on our organization's overall business objectives is Faster analysis

Other Software Used

Zabbix