Getting Support from ThousandEyes
As a ThousandEyes user, you may encounter situations that require assistance from our Customer Engineering team, or additional support.
This guide aims to help you understand when and how to contact ThousandEyes Customer Engineering for assistance. Whether you need help with technical issues, product functionality, or troubleshooting, our dedicated support team is here to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition, the Cisco AI Assistant can provide support with user troubleshooting and technical questions.
Below is an outline of the support we provide and the best ways to get in touch for quick and efficient assistance.
In this guide we will cover:
Cisco AI Assistant Integrated in ThousandEyes
The Cisco AI Assistant is integrated in ThousandEyes to provide users with enhanced troubleshooting support and situation analysis through AI-driven insights. You can find the AI Assistant in the top right of the ThousandEyes web application:
Once you've opened the assistant, navigated through the initial welcome pages (the first time only), and accepted the license agreement, a pop-out modal will appear on the right side of the web application.
From here, you can ask the assistant about network and app synthetics test data, troubleshooting questions, and general inquiries about the ThousandEyes product suite. The assistant will draw on various sources (including the product documentation), and provide those links at the bottom of the response.
Supported features for the AI assistant include:
Troubleshooting Application Experience
The assistant can help troubleshoot the performance and experience of specific applications by using events, alerts, and Internet Insights outage data (if purchased). It provides clear summaries of the issue type, start time, duration (if applicable), and the number of affected agents and tests in your account group. This will help you quickly pinpoint and better understand the root cause of performance issues, leading to faster resolution and reduced downtime.
You can ask the AI Assistant questions like:
"Were there any alerts triggered for [application name] today?"
"How many agents are affected by the latest issue with [application name]?"
"What locations are experiencing problems with [application name]?"
Documentation Analysis
The assistant allows users to ask natural-language questions about the ThousandEyes product documentation and API documentation, as well as ThousandEyes public blogs. It streamlines access to technical information, providing quick answers to product questions along with references and hyperlinks to supporting documentation for deeper exploration.
You can ask the AI Assistant questions like:
"What are the supported metrics for Cloud Agent tests?"
"How can I create a new test using the ThousandEyes API?"
"What is the default interval for HTTP server tests?"
Querying the API for Network and Application Synthetics Tests
The AI Assistant can query for network and application synthetics tests.
You can ask the AI Assistant questions like:
"What tests have I set up for Salesforce?"
"Which locations am I monitoring Microsoft Teams from?"
AI Data Privacy and Customer Security
At Cisco, we believe that generative artificial intelligence ("GenAI") can be leveraged to power an inclusive future for all. We also recognize that by applying this technology, we have a responsibility to mitigate potential harm. That is why Cisco adheres to our Responsible AI Framework (the "Framework"), which is based on six principles of Transparency, Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Security and Reliability.
You can read more about Cisco ThousandEyes' approach to GenAI here: Cisco ThousandEyes GenAI Transparency Technical Note.
Provide Feedback for the Cisco AI Assistant
You can provide feedback about the responses you get from the Cisco AI Assistant using the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" and selecting the relevant checkboxes (Correct, Helpful, Other) underneath the response thread, and providing additional details regarding your experience.
We appreciate any feedback, as both positive and negative feedback helps us improve the experience.
ThousandEyes strongly recommends that you do not put any personal data or otherwise sensitive information into the feedback box.
Opting Out of the Cisco AI Assistant
The Cisco AI Assistant is enabled by default for all users. You can opt-out of all Cisco AI-based features available in ThousandEyes by navigating to Manage -> Account Settings -> Organization Settings -> AI Features, switching the toggle to Off, and clicking Save Changes.
Only organization administrators can configure this toggle.
Contacting Support
The Customer Engineering team is here to help with the following types of inquiries:
Technical questions
Product functionality
Configuration assistance
Requests to analyze test results
Reports of possible bugs or other platform issues
Feature requests
When contacting Support, ensure that you use the email address associated with your ThousandEyes account in order to ensure that you are associated with the correct organization and case history in the ticketing system.
Contact the ThousandEyes Customer Engineering team through these methods:
Chat: app.thousandeyes.com > Help & Support > Chat with Support
Web: app.thousandeyes.com > Help & Support > Contact Support
Telephone: (415) 237-EYES (3937)
Email
For non-urgent inquiries or when you need to provide detailed information about your issue, you can send an email to our Support team at [email protected].
Chat
For interactive support, the ThousandEyes app provides a chat client, which you can access from the Help and Support menu in the top bar of app.thousandeyes.com.
Web
Customers who log into the ThousandEyes app have access to the Support portal, where you can create a Support case, as well as view your Support case history and other Support information. You can also use this portal if your organization blocks live chat or email due to security requirements.
Phone
For high-priority issues, you can contact ThousandEyes Customer Engineering at (415) 237-EYES (3937). Callers are routed to the next available engineer.
日本語対応について (Japanese-Language Support)
日本国内のお客様を対象に、グローバルサポートチームのサブセットとして、日本語対応窓口を提供しています。Eメール [email protected]、またはWebポータルまで、日本語でご連絡ください。
日本語対応ができるThousandEyesのサポートチームが、日本時間の月曜から金曜まで、9:00am - 5:00 pmにて受付（日本国民の祝日・Cisco年末年始休暇を除く）、翌営業日以内にご返信いたします。グローバルサポート同様、サポートケース番号が発行されます。なお、チャットによる日本語サポートは現在対応していません。
Translation of the above:
For customers in Japan, we provide a Japanese-language support desk as a subset of our global support team. Please contact us by email at [email protected] or via our web portal. The ThousandEyes support team, who can speak Japanese, is available 9:00am - 5:00pm (Japan time), Monday through Friday (excluding Japan national holidays and Cisco's end-of-year shutdown period) and will respond within the next business day. Similar to global support, a support case number will be issued. Please note that Japanese-language support via chat is currently not available.
Online Collaboration
During a support session, the team may request a screen-sharing session using Webex or your company’s screen-sharing solution.
To facilitate effective online collaboration, first gather the necessary information. Our supporting engineers require this information before joining a collaboration, in order to run checks and investigations on the ThousandEyes side of the issue.
Information We Need
Before you contact Customer Engineering, collect the following information:
Names of any agents involved.
Names of any tests involved.
Names (and, if possible, IDs) of any alerts involved.
Logs or diagnostic files from the involved agents.
A clear description of the issue:
Are you having issues installing an agent?
Is an agent not checking in?
Is a new test not worked as expected?
Is a test suddenly failing and you need to know why?
Do you need an alert explained?
When you provide this background information, we can help you more effectively.
Sensitive Information to Avoid Sharing
Do not share sensitive information, such as passwords, API tokens, or files containing proprietary information.
These may include, but are not limited to:
Passwords (ThousandEyes account, Web or Voice Layer Tests, private keys for digital certificates)
API tokens
Files containing sensitive information (screenshots, transaction test scripts, packet captures, configuration files
Support Team Locations and Supported Languages
Customer Engineering team members are located in the United States, Mexico, Australia, India, Poland, and Japan.
By default, the support language is English, but it may be possible to converse with a Support person in a local language during business hours if requested. The exception is Japan, where communication in Japanese is available only via email, not chat. For customers who do not speak or write in English, a translator will be made available so they can communicate in their local language.
Case Handling Priorities
To better enable the Cisco ThousandEyes Support team to meet both the Cisco ThousandEyes Support Policy and your individual needs, we have implemented a two-aspect priority system. Cases are assigned the approriate priority level based on the support policy, while also being assigned a customer priority level, based on your own assessment of the issue.
This enables you to help tell us which cases within a given ThousandEyes priority level are more urgent than others.
The priority system looks as follows:
ThousandEyes Priority 1 (Urgent) [Critical impact on your business operations]
Customer Priority Critical
Customer Priority Major
Customer Priority Medium
Customer Priority Minimum
ThousandEyes Priority 2 (High) [Substantial impact on your business operations]
Customer Priority Critical
Customer Priority Major
Customer Priority Medium
Customer Priority Minimum
ThousandEyes Priority 3 (Medium) [Minimal impact on your business operations]
Customer Priority Critical
Customer Priority Major
Customer Priority Medium
Customer Priority Minimum
ThousandEyes Priority 4 (Low) [No impact on your business operations]
Customer Priority Critical
Customer Priority Major
Customer Priority Medium
Customer Priority Minimum
Useful Links and Articles
Webex
ThousandEyes Webex: To join without installing software, use the Join by browser option. The Support team will provide the meeting information.
Setting up and testing Webex: Follow the directions to set up and test Webex on your computer. Perform the Webex test on the same network you will use during your meeting.
Sharing test data: When you submit a Support request about test results, the best way to provide us information is by sharing a snapshot link.
Troubleshooting Endpoint Agent issues: Problems that cannot be solved solely by inspection of log files may require a remote desktop session with a Customer Engineer to investigate the agent and the system on which the agent runs.
Connecting to Enterprise Agents via SSH:
We hope this guide helps you get the assistance you need from the ThousandEyes Customer Engineering team. If you have additional questions, don’t hesitate to reach out using the contact methods provided.
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