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 ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"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 authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"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 company provides excellent service."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If I am a user and I have a seat on the fourth floor, if I move across the building, the system should be able to track me and should be able to figure out my whereabouts or my position within the building if I'm connected to the wireless. That would make the administrator's life easier in terms of reachability."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve integration with non-Cisco platforms."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"It's an expensive solution."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"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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