We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"Meraki Dashboard centralizes control of all our equipment into one cloud-based console, so we can manage it from anywhere. We can resolve problems remotely outside of business hours because it is on the cloud. You can use the dashboard to change security settings or configure routers and switches."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"We like the visibility this solution gives us of the infrastructure."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"They can improve the landing page in Meraki Dashboard. When I go into an organization, they can include a lot more infographics. They can also simplify it a bit and consolidate it. For example, if I've got five branches and I go into customer A's profile or organization, I'd like to see an infographic on the landing page providing a snippet of the entire network layout, that is, all branches in one snapshot. From there, I would like to go into the network that I want to work on or view."
"I would like to receive decent notification alerts regarding the license's expiry. Or any help on correcting or optimizing licenses, because in certain circumstances you can add a license but it's the wrong licensing. However, the Dashboard adds the license in some way, and you do not utilize it. You can simply extend the license's expiration date."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"There needs to be more improvement on the device-connected interface."
"Some features could be added."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"It's an expensive solution."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, Mist AI and Cloud, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. ThousandEyes report.
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