Cisco ThousandEyes
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Features
35 features across 9 categories
AI(1)
Automated detection and remediation of network and application issues using artificial intelligence
Analytics(5)
Harness the power of intelligence derived from billions of daily measurements across the Internet
Intelligently correlate configuration changes with other events to isolate root cause faster
Cross-correlate with outage conditions to verify provider choices and create a perpetual improvement cycle to optimize network and application performance over time
Collect and analyze application and user traffic data with flexible views and intuitive graphs
WAN Insights applies statistical models to Cisco SD-WAN telemetry to produce routing recommendations that forecast potential performance gains for application groups
Application Monitoring(1)
Understand how every application element impacts digital experience with page load metrics, web component waterfalls, and powerful multi-step API testing
Cloud Monitoring(3)
Comprehensive multi-cloud visibility with correlated digital experience insights across cloud providers and accounts
Efficiently architect and troubleshoot your cloud network with detailed insights into traffic patterns
Automatically discover cloud provider resources and understand service dependencies
End User Monitoring(3)
Monitor live web application performance from the user perspective using a browser plugin that enables real user monitoring
End user perspective of app, LAN, WAN, and Internet performance from employee laptops, desktops, and mobile devices
Granular waterfall view of user sessions on Windows and Mac devices
Infrastructure(2)
Deploy Enterprise Agents within your environment, including on Cisco routing, switching, and SD-WAN
Access to IPv4, IPv6, and broadband Cloud Agents in 271 metro locations around the world
Integrations(2)
Import and forecast to any custom applications that run across your SD-WAN fabric with native support for default applications including Webex by Cisco and Microsoft 365
Rich integration capabilities using native REST API to integrate your IT ecosystem
Monitoring(17)
Detect outages impacting business-critical SaaS applications that power your workforce
Visualize contextual BGP routing data integrated from dozens of global BGP collectors to track reachability and path changes for any relevant prefix
Monitor device health and metrics from endpoint devices
Keep critical DNS services reachable and validate DNS records to deliver a flawless digital experience
Gain deep insight into the real-time performance of business-critical collaboration and call center applications
Monitor recent and ongoing outages with a global map and visualize Internet health at a macro level
Track global Internet disruptions in real-time across ISP, public cloud, and edge service networks, and get immediate insight into outages impacting business-critical applications
AI-powered identification of outages in ISPs, public clouds, and edge service networks that are critical to IT operations
Visual representation of network paths from user devices to target destinations
Proactively run synthetic monitoring tests on the services you care about and visualize end-to-end network hops
Unified, interactive, multipoint, and topologically correlated view of all network paths between selected agents and a target URL or IP address with hop-by-hop and layer-by-layer diagnosis
Tune SD-WAN routing policies per site to avoid performance issues and measurably improve the user experience before it is impacted
Quickly remediate degraded experiences through detailed visibility into network traffic with automatic correlation of synthetic and traffic data
VPN gateway and proxy DNS server monitoring on Windows and Mac devices
Monitor Wi-Fi access points, SSID, and signal strength from endpoint devices
Simplified IT operations and enhanced end-to-end visibility for wireless networks through active testing capabilities
Understand how users are connecting to Wi-Fi access points and monitor signal quality, link speed, congestion, and other performance factors
Support(1)
Get help from our team of networking experts with 24x7 consultative live chat, or over email, web, or phone
Pricing
Network & App Synthetics
- ✓Active monitoring for network and applications from Cloud Agents and Enterprise Agents
- ✓Application-aware network monitoring
- ✓Web app monitoring (HTTP, FTP, browser, API tests)
- ✓DNS monitoring
- ✓BGP route monitoring
- ✓VoIP/UCaaS monitoring
- ✓Test units calculated based on number, type, and frequency of monitoring tests
Endpoint Experience
- ✓End user perspective of app, LAN, WAN, and Internet performance from employee laptops, desktops, and mobile devices
- ✓User session details with granular waterfall view (Windows and Mac)
- ✓Network path visualization
- ✓Wi-Fi access points, SSID, and signal strength
- ✓VPN gateway and proxy DNS server monitoring (Windows and Mac)
- ✓Device health and metrics
Internet Insights
- ✓Collective intelligence to understand how service provider outages impact your digital experience
- ✓See Internet conditions that impact your business
- ✓Communicate proactively with customers about outages
- ✓Collaborate with providers to improve your digital experience
- ✓Track service provider availability over time and choose reliable partners
- ✓Global network and application outage dashboard
Cloud Insights
- ✓Comprehensive multi-cloud visibility with correlated digital experience insights
- ✓Understand service dependencies by automatically discovering cloud provider resources
- ✓Isolate root cause faster by intelligently correlating configuration changes with other events
- ✓Efficiently architect and troubleshoot your cloud network with detailed insights into traffic patterns
- ✓Cloud Insights also uses test units to allocate flow logs from the cloud environment
Traffic Insights
- ✓Quickly remediate degraded experiences through detailed visibility into network traffic
- ✓Dramatically accelerate time to root cause through automatic correlation of synthetic and traffic data
- ✓Quickly identify issues using flexible views and intuitive graphs
- ✓Scale visibility by collecting and analyzing application and user traffic data with ThousandEyes
- ✓FPS usage is calculated as a percentage of synthetic test units
WAN Insights
- ✓Available for current Cisco SD-WAN customers with qualified Cisco DNA licensing tiers
- ✓Forecast-based routing recommendations
- ✓Proactive SD-WAN monitoring
- ✓Easy app onboarding
- ✓Continuous assurance
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Integrations
4 known integrations