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."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The product is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"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 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 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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"The SolarWinds notification and alerting configuration could be simplified as it would be easier to find if it was within the NPM web application instead of in a separate client application."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
"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."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"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."
"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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