How to Build Your Own Cisco ThousandEyes
Replace Cisco ThousandEyes with a custom build. Assurance for Every Digital Experience
Build Difficulty: 5/5
Build a working replacement in a weekend with AI tools
Estimated Timeline
Based on 35 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 35 features
Monitoring(17 features)
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
+12 more in this category
Analytics(5 features)
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
Cloud Monitoring(3 features)
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 features)
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 features)
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 features)
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
AI(1 features)
Automated detection and remediation of network and application issues using artificial intelligence
Application Monitoring(1 features)
Understand how every application element impacts digital experience with page load metrics, web component waterfalls, and powerful multi-step API testing
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