Item: Cisco ThousandEyes
Rating: 7
Author: Chawa Chiteta

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use ThousandEyes to monitor faults on the LAN, BGP routing changes, and application latency. It gives us better visibility from a user perspective and allows us to pinpoint where issues might be instead of wasting time pointing the finger at each time other. It helps us optimize our monitoring capabilities.

Pros and Cons

Dashboards
Assurance
Simplified Integration with catalyst centre

UI
Setting up monitors could be simplified
Hardware support

Return on Investment

Extra tool for monitoring
Added visibility
Problem identification

Alternatives Considered

I think ThousandEyes has a lot of potential

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco ThousandEyes delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Cisco ThousandEyes's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco ThousandEyes live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco ThousandEyes go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco ThousandEyes again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne), SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM), Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution

Likelihood to Recommend

I find ThousandEyes is well suited and LAN and application monitoring tool provided you have all the components to give you end to end data for troubleshooting.