ThousandEyes is best-in-class for internet and network path visibility. Nova is the SRE platform that turns those signals into incidents, runbooks, and auto-remediation.
ThousandEyes excels at hop-by-hop network and SaaS visibility. Nova covers the rest of the reliability stack — apps, infrastructure, incidents, runbooks, on-call, and remediation.
| Capability | Nova AI Ops | Cisco ThousandEyes |
|---|---|---|
| Network Path Visibility | ✓ Network observability + topology + AI root-cause | ✓ Best-in-class internet path + BGP visibility |
| Internet / SaaS monitoring | ~ Synthetic monitoring covers SaaS endpoints | ✓ Native SaaS / CDN performance dashboards |
| Synthetic Monitoring | ✓ 15 global locations, AI synthetic monitoring | ✓ Strong synthetic agents in 200+ vantage points |
| Application Monitoring | ✓ Flame graphs, service maps, SLA alerts | ~ Limited — relies on AppDynamics integration |
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ✓ Full-stack monitoring with AI anomaly detection | ✗ Not its job |
| Incident Management | ✓ Built-in incident lifecycle, war rooms, post-mortems | ✗ Alerts only, no incident lifecycle |
| AI Agents | ✓ 100+ specialized agents for detection, diagnosis, remediation, postmortems | ~ AI Outage Detection, no autonomous agents |
| Auto-Remediation | ✓ 78% incidents auto-resolved in <90s | ✗ No remediation |
| AI Runbooks | ✓ AI-generated runbooks with what-if simulation | ✗ No runbooks |
| On-Call Scheduling | ✓ Follow-the-sun, zero-gap scheduling | ✗ Routes alerts to PagerDuty / xMatters |
| Pricing | ✓ Per-user pricing, Basic tier, no per-host/per-GB overages | ~ Per agent / per test, Cisco enterprise contracts |
| Setup Time | ✓ Under 3 minutes, one-command install | ✓ Cloud agents deploy fast |
ThousandEyes is sold per agent and per test through the Cisco channel, with bundled deals for AppDynamics shops. Nova is one per-user platform price.
Full platform: monitoring, incidents, AI agents, runbooks, on-call, logs, tracing, auto-remediation. Basic tier available. See pricing.
Cloud and Enterprise agents are licensed separately, with per-test pricing on top. Most deals get bundled with AppDynamics or Cisco Catalyst.
ThousandEyes is essential for network truth — but you still need infrastructure monitoring, APM, incidents, on-call, and a status page. Nova bundles them.
ThousandEyes pricing requires a Cisco quote. Cisco ThousandEyes is a trademark of its respective owner. Nova AI Ops is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cisco ThousandEyes.
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