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."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"The feature I find most valuable is the single pane of glass where you can configure a monitor view, all from one dashboard. For example, on the wireless side, you can configure it under the configuration panel, and then view statistics like location analytics, user analytics, etc."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"The most valuable feature is their support, they get better every day."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The company provides excellent service."
"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."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"The product is missing a VPN and it is a major issue when it comes to deployment."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"Some features could be added."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"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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