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 most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"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 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."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"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 company provides excellent service."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"It would be good to have high security."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds added some technical protocols like Modbus. The market needs a simple solution for monitoring a technical device."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"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's an expensive solution."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
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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