Cisco ThousandEyes tests

Use cases for ThousandEyes tests

With ThousandEyes tests in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, you can:

• Identify whether slow application performance is related to the network path or the target application.

• Monitor applications from multiple ThousandEyes cloud or private locations.

• Import existing ThousandEyes tests without recreating them in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.

• Create and manage supported ThousandEyes tests from Splunk Observability Cloud.

• View application and network metrics together in performance charts.

• Compare network metrics across locations and time ranges.

• Create detectors for test failures, uptime, run duration, and DNS performance.

• Investigate network issues in ThousandEyes using links from Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.

• Continue application troubleshooting in Splunk APM when a correlated trace is available.

What is a ThousandEyes test?

A ThousandEyes test is a scheduled synthetic test that runs from a ThousandEyes agent at a selected location. Each test run measures the availability and performance of a target and can collect network information about the path between the agent and the target.

A test can run from one or more cloud locations or from private locations that use ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents. Each run produces results for the selected location, including the run status, run duration, application metrics, and available network metrics.

What happens during a ThousandEyes test?

During a ThousandEyes test, ThousandEyes runs the configured test from the selected locations and sends the test results to Splunk Observability Cloud. Splunk Synthetic Monitoring displays the results in the ThousandEyes test experience.

ThousandEyes test types

The ThousandEyes integration supports the following test types in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.