We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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 process is quite simple."
"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"The solution scales well."
"The company provides excellent service."
"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."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"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."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, Mist AI and Cloud, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. ThousandEyes report.
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