One of the advantages of using ThousandEyes is the ability to see the metrics from around the world. ThousandEyes has hundreds of agents located around the world customers can use in addition customers can install enterprise agents that are only available for testing products within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC). For this lab, ThousandEyes was set up using a few of the cloud agents in different parts of the world. Each agent runs a script that interacts with the TeaStore website.

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Over the years, Cisco has developed various ACI tools (now for DCNM and NX-OS and eventually public cloud visibility) known as the day 2 operations suite. The tools are Network Assurance Engine (NAE) and NEXUS Insights (NI is now the combination of Network Insights Resources (NIR) and Network insights Advisor (NIA)). Cisco has embarked on combining NAE and NI into a single pane of glass view and providing sharable data lakes for all apps, allowing for correlating application performance and fabric events.