We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center 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."We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"The installation process is easy."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"It can generate KPIs and management reports with monthly presentations on activities and updating the environment (success and failure)."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"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 installation process is not hard at all."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 20th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our Microsoft System Center vs. ThousandEyes report.
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