ThousandEyes

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Paid

Open source

No

Self-hosted

No

Launched

2013

Status

Active

Website

thousandeyes.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Network monitoring checklist

8 of 10 confirmed in ThousandEyes's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.

• + SNMP polling Yes
• + Flow analysis Yes
• + Device discovery Yes
• + Topology maps Yes
• + Latency and path Yes
• + Bandwidth graphs Yes
• ? Syslog and traps Not confirmed
• ? Configuration backup Not confirmed
• + Alerting Yes
• + Wireless Yes

thousandeyes.com blocks scripted access; judged from docs. Wi-Fi via endpoint-agent wireless testing.

Checked against: docs.thousandeyes.com, docs.thousandeyes.com (2), docs.thousandeyes.com (3)

Uptime and synthetic monitoring checklist

9 of 10 confirmed in ThousandEyes's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Uptime.

• + HTTP checks Yes
• + Keyword checks Yes
• + SSL certificate expiry Yes
• + TCP port checks Yes
• + Ping checks Yes
• + DNS checks Yes
• + Multi-location checks Yes
• + Checks every minute or faster Yes
• + Browser or multi-step checks Yes
• ? Status page Not confirmed

No public status page feature found in docs

Checked against: docs.thousandeyes.com, docs.thousandeyes.com (2), docs.thousandeyes.com (3), docs.thousandeyes.com (4), docs.thousandeyes.com (5)

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