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We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Operations Management and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management is easily scalable.""It is breadth. It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console.""TSOM's ability to consolidate alerts into a single location and provide filtering of alerts is great.""Using the TrueSight platform we can monitor server performance and notify the customers using the integrated ticketing for events. We can let them know if there are any issues with a server, or application, or database.""The event management tool builds correlation logic and protection algorithms into a field of events that is valuable when a data center goes down.""Helix Innovation Studio is a very good feature. It allows us to develop our own enterprise applications and make them available for the customers.""The most valuable features are the rich reports, high performance, and the look and feel of the WebEx webpage are very good.""The ability of this platform to monitor the very diverse assets that we maintain around the world is its most valuable feature... We support a vast array of manufacturers' equipment, like HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi... We can do it all with [this] one [solution]."

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"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.""From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities.""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.""ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility.""The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent.""The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."

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Cons
"The solution is a little obsolete.""The product must provide more AI capabilities.""The knowledge modules could be more lightweight in size. At present, the installation packages can be quite large.""The sizing (which is difficult), the maintenance of it and the upgrade paths. This is a difficult area which is not easy to cover, as every client has a different approach of implementing the product.""More modules for less popular applications and better documentation.""The graphs are extremely limited. We don't have a lot of dashboard options. To make reports and dashboards more useful, we usually need to integrate some dashboard solutions.""The product must provide application or service monitoring features.""I would like to see a little more out-of-the-box event correlation and expanded AIOps type capabilities. Where you can train your artificial intelligence operations to be able to memorize an issue once you encounter one scenario, so if you encounter that same problem, you can get to the root cause very quickly."

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"The guest portal is hard to use.""There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness.""Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products.""Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it.""It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices""ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features.""They only offer synthetic requests.""It's an expensive solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Use conservative figures. In terms of hardware, monitored servers and also effort. The product is not cheap. But as with other products, you get what you pay for."
  • "The solutions are not the cheapest but are robust and stable. License model is rather complex and BMC do often change the model."
  • "Pricing is very high."
  • "We pay license fees of between $150 and $200 per asset. There is an enterprise software license fee, and then you pay a percentage for your maintenance, and then Premier Support. For example, if you buy a two-year license for the product, then the maintenance fee is added to that for two years at X percent a year. Then there's a small fee on top of that for Premier Support..."
  • "Pricing is all volume-driven. I think we were paying between $80 and $85 per license. That's per unit, for a perpetual license. You pay it one time and then, every year, you pay 20 percent of that for annual maintenance and support. But now that we've grown, we've purchased tens of thousands of licenses and the cost per license has gone down to something like less than $30..."
  • "It is a large, complex product. So, there is a commitment of manpower to deploy it, as it is not a cheap product."
  • "There is a big upfront cost when you buy the license, then there is annual maintenance. We look at, if I bought a license and paid for maintenance for five years, then average it out, what would be my monthly cost. We have had some of the competing tools come in around four dollars. This is coming in as a premium, which is why I don't have it deployed as I would like it. Therefore, we're in negotiations right now. If I can get it down to the four dollar range, I will triple my deployment in a year and a half."
  • "The only possible additional cost that I can mention, that you might not be aware of, is that it uses Oracle partitioning, if you use Oracle. There are Oracle partitioning fees that go with that."
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  • "In our company, we incur a yearly expense in our company for the licensing part. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten since it is expensive."
  • "It is a quite expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheap."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The tool is flexible enough to be customized based on customer requirements.
    Top Answer:The product must provide more AI capabilities. AI is already available but must play a deeper role in the solution.
    Top Answer:It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective.  You can check… more »
    Top Answer:The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring. It would be a great advantage if the tool provides application monitoring features. More advanced features must be available in the… more »
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    Also Known As
    ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management
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    Overview

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management is a solution that delivers end-to-end performance monitoring and event management. It does so by using machine learning, analytics, and AIOps to identify, analyze, and resolve application and infrastructure problems quickly. BMC TrueSight Operations Management also offers automated remediation and ticketing.

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management Features

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • TrueSight Smart Reporting
    • Broad monitoring capabilities
    • Hundreds of integrations
    • Event grouping
    • Proactive alerts
    • Incident tickets
    • Cause analysis
    • Automated log analysis

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using BMC TrueSight Operations Management include:

    • Detects performance issues: BMC TrueSight Operations Management helps you detect and address performance abnormalities before they impact your organization.
    • Beneficial for IT teams: Since BMC TrueSight Operations Management automatically learns the behavior of your infrastructure, it is able to alert you when specific behaviors require attention, helping IT departments focus on other pressing priorities.
    • Cost efficient: BMC TrueSight Operations Management will save your company money by eliminating the need to manage thousands of traditional, static thresholds for event generation.
    • Reduces manual tasks: BMC TrueSight Operations Management minimizes the need to manually define, configure, and maintain correlation rules and policies.
    • Fewer false alarms: With BMC TrueSight Operations Management, the number of false alarms and associated incidents decreases drastically.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by BMC TrueSight Operations Management users.

    Mudassir A., Sr. Technical Consultant at a tech services company, says, "The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization."

    A General Manager - Sales at a tech services company explains, “There are many features that are most valuable in BMC TrueSight Operations Management. First, its proactive monitoring feature is highly developed. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is an intelligent tool that's able to understand day-to-day operations and consistently gives alerts. The alerts are not automatic for some activities, e.g. some alerts are given monthly, while some are given more frequently. The consolidated dashboard where you can enjoy a single pane of glass to look at the full infrastructure from the servers to the VMs, to the clouds, to the application, to the database, to the network devices, including having a topology, and having a tendency map of the topology of key offerings, is also a valuable feature of this solution.”

    An Information Systems Computer System Controller at an insurance company states, “The business event manager tool that consolidates detailed information from a single instance of equipment is the most valuable thing for me. It provides support for the business tools and the IT services which come from several systems.”


    ThousandEyes is a Network Intelligence platform that delivers visibility into every network an organization relies on, whether public or private. ThousandEyes enables users to optimize application delivery, end-user experience and ongoing infrastructure investments.

    With cloud, enterprises can innovate much faster, but the growing number of cloud and SaaS applications means that more apps are being delivered over the Internet. This increases dependence on the Internet, a public “best effort” network, and other third-party infrastructures, substantially reducing the ability of IT teams to predict, visualize and control operational behavior. This results in a chaotic and unmanageable IT environment, making issue resolution a time-consuming ordeal, potentially impacting reputation and revenue. ThousandEyes has innovated an approach based on an unmatched distribution of smart agents across the Internet and enterprise, providing visibility all the way to the end user. ThousandEyes gathers and analyzes massive volumes of Network Intelligence data from all of these vantage points, enabling organizations to solve even their most obscure performance problems in minutes. By using ThousandEyes in the planning and testing phases of cloud adoption, customers can also strategically identify and fix underlying problems before production deployment of business-critical applications.

    The ThousandEyes solution is ubiquitous across industry sectors, and since launching in mid-2013, customers have come from a diverse set of industry sectors, which include Silicon Valley technology companies, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, manufacturing and education.

    Sample Customers
    Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
    Wayfair, GitHub, Craigslist, Comcast, SurveyMonkey, Lyft, Box, HP, Zendesk, IO Data Centers, Good Technology, NNTCommunications, Proofpoint, Schneider, Crowdstrike, Avera, Pitney Bowes, InstartLogic, Shutterfly, Shutterstock, Condé Nast, Roche, Jive, Actelion, Brocade, Infor, Okta, JLL, DigitalOcean, Zuora, NetSuite, CloudFlare, One, DemonWare, Quantcast, Carbonite, CareerBuilder, Prosper, Oscar, Slack
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm32%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise76%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    Buyer's Guide
    BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. ThousandEyes
    May 2024
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    BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 49 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 20th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and New Relic, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. ThousandEyes report.

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