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."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"Monitoring capabilities are at a high level and it is easy to see utilization, access ports, and CPU memory in real time or through a lens for long-term visualization."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"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 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's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"SolarWinds could offer more support and insights for a broader range of devices. Currently, it focuses on routers, switches, and some load balancers. However, it lacks an out-of-the-box dashboard for monitoring firewalls and some other modern network security devices. We have to customize it a lot."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
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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