We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM 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."
"I love the GUI. Almost everything is accessible through the web interface. It is very user-friendly. It is easy to drag and drop resources wherever you want them."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"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 most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"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 authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"The improvement would be that SolarWinds NPM thoroughly checks its patches before releasing them to the market. Better testing, alpha testing, and then releasing it to the market."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
"The scalability can be better."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, Entuity and LogicMonitor, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. ThousandEyes report.
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