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 initial setup is easy."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"The most valuable features in SolarWinds NPM are the network search and diagnostic tools."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The SolarWinds NPM framework, upon which most of their flagship products are built, empowers a wide variety of admins and users to quickly find value in their installed products."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"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."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds added some technical protocols like Modbus. The market needs a simple solution for monitoring a technical device."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"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."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
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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