Why are people leaving Cisco ThousandEyes?

Some of the biggest issues facing ThousandEyes users:

Limited visibility

Lacking Internet insights, limited geographic footprint, no real time BGP data

Lacking independence

ThousandEyes is not independent since it is hosted on AWS and owned by Cisco

Missing essential features

No scenario testing, no 'what-if' analyses, 30-90 day data retention

Uncertain future

How much will ThousandEyes innovate on IPM given its increasingly minor status within Cisco?

Looking for the best ThousandEyes alternative?

The key reasons to choose Catchpoint:

World’s largest global observability network

2700+ eyes worldwide & continually growing, infinite depth of test types

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Data you can trust

Hosted on independent, distributed infrastructure; with the option of long-term data storage

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All in on IPM

100% focus on IPM allows us to continually innovate and evolve with the Internet

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Internet Sonar Outages Map

Our integrated, real-time map based on billions of data points from 2700+ nodes

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Internet Stack Map

A live status view of every third-party system your critical services rely upon for instant diagnosis

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Catchpoint Tracing

Detailed tracing data from an outside-in perspective all the way through the application stack

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Experience the Catchpoint difference

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ThousandEyes

Platform is cloud vendor independent

Independent, distributed infrastructure not hosted on the public cloud; platform not affected when public clouds go down

Global observability network

Largest and most diverse active monitoring network inside the Internet (cloud, last mile, backbone, wireless, enterprise, endpoints)

Internet health at-a-glance

Global visibility into thousands of Internet services with automatic incident correlation, integrated vendor status updates in real-time, and at-a-glance view of critical Internet dependencies

IPM and APM telemetry in single platform

Visualize tracing journey from the end user, across the Internet Stack, through the application down to the line of code

Real user monitoring (RUM), including network error logging (NEL)

Proactively monitor detailed metrics on real user interactions with web and apps, including NEL reports for a 360° view

SLA management

Independent monitoring and objective validation of SLA compliance of vendors, through long term data retention and real-time alerts

Granular, real-time BGP visibility

Rich, scalable BGP data from 1,000+ public BGP peers, including 250+ dedicated and real-time BGP peers that are product native

Precise CDN monitoring

Track CDN performance and gain visibility into diverse, tier 1 ISP and connection types across world geographies

Rich data exploration capability

100 standard metrics and 30+ dimensions with ability to add custom metrics/dimensions

Unbounded continuous testing capabilities

Ability to turn any custom script into a monitor

Long-term data retention

Extended storage periods of up to 7 years of raw data

Traceroute ECN – Monitor extreme lag-sensitive apps

Track performance of latency-sensitive, next gen apps such as AR/VR, streaming, gaming, autonomous vehicles

Advanced webhook API integration

Real-time monitoring data delivery to customer data lake, supporting legacy and modern frameworks (including Open Telemetry)

Sub-second network performance testing

Support high frequency, continuous testing (no traceroute needed)

Efficient and optimized network testing

Network testing only occurs during application layer failures, resulting in efficiency of resource usage

Comprehensive web perf testing

Detailed web performance testing, including support of multi-layer datasets, different browser types support and no-code experiments with automated performance optimization recommendations

SafeSwitch to Catchpoint: The best Cisco ThousandEyes alternative

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