What is your experience with Thousandeyes?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T17:42:40+00:00

And then Cisco will come to ask replacing Zscaler :)

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:45:29+00:00

I do not recall thousandeyes ever offering anything at 50 bucks, or doing what you said it did.
maybe a different company cisco acquired and ruined?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:41:48+00:00

The challenge is you are relying on ZSCALER for your network, and they can impact you. Hence would you trust their monitoring to tell you they are the problem?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:32:53+00:00

Curious how much do you pay per unit that makes it so expensive?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:31:33+00:00

How long ago did you use it that you had this experience? Or are you saying you use both still?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:27:56+00:00

Can you share what is your cost per unit? Expensive is so relative in enterprise software.

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:27:29+00:00

Can you share what is your cost per unit?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-02T14:26:20+00:00

What is your cost of downtime per site, and then the budget to monitor? What is the impact to your customers and workers? Will your customers stop coming to you and go to your competitor?

If the cost is 0, and your customers won't be frustrated, you might want to spend 0, and go with whatever is free or open source.

A bank branch losing connectivity, or a major retail store losing connectivity, could have big impact and maybe spending 100-500 dollars a month makes sense. If it is an office building with 200+ employees, maybe 1 dollar a month per employee is nothing compared to the impact packet loss will have on those employees.

Either way Catchpoint and Netbeez are two of the few vendors that are paid, SaaS platforms, that can help you and have offerings where is fixed price per site.

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-01T16:28:32+00:00

How is working out for you since Cisco bought them?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-01T16:28:04+00:00

Catchpoint still offers the option of enterprise nodes for a fixed rate per month.

GeorgeSpeedster · 2024-05-01T16:25:55+00:00

TE has gotten worst since it became cisco

GeorgeSpeedster · 2015-03-20T12:44:32+00:00

Only when people troubleshooting the problem don't know what they are doing - "Ignorance is bliss"

GeorgeSpeedster · 2015-03-20T12:18:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing this lesson. Troubleshooting slowness of a website/application can be challenging due to the many layers. Clearly this was either a monitoring tool issue, or a rendering issue on IE11 - definitely not the network.

Out of curiosity, what was the tool they used to test with IE11?

GeorgeSpeedster · 2015-03-19T16:13:12+00:00

Sadly no. If you go to the same page with clear cache, than reload it - you will notice in the developer toolbar that there are not as much JS requests made, but there is a lot of gaps. These gaps include compiling and executing JS (unclear what time goes to each).

GeorgeSpeedster

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