What is the primary purpose of integrating ThousandEyes with Meraki?

The primary purpose of integrating ThousandEyes with the Cisco Meraki platform is to gain deep visibility into the performance of external, business-critical services from the perspective of the SD-WAN branch office. By deploying a ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent on a Meraki MX security and SD-WAN appliance, administrators can proactively monitor the network paths to SaaS applications (like Microsoft 365, Salesforce) and services hosted in IaaS/PaaS clouds. This allows for rapid identification and diagnosis of performance issues that occur outside the local network, ensuring a better user experience for cloud-dependent applications.

A. Endpoint Agents are for user devices and are not deployed via the Meraki dashboard integration, which focuses on agents for network appliances.

C. ThousandEyes is a performance visibility platform, not a security enforcement or compliance tool. Other solutions like Cisco Umbrella handle cloud security.

D. User access policies and permissions are managed through Meraki's native features or integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, not ThousandEyes.

1. Cisco Meraki Documentation, "ThousandEyes Integration with Meraki." The overview section states, "The ThousandEyes integration with Meraki allows you to quickly pinpoint the source of performance issues with the SaaS and IaaS applications your business relies on... by running a ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent directly on your Meraki MX."

2. Cisco, "Meraki and ThousandEyes At-a-Glance," 2022. Page 1 highlights the key benefit: "Gain hop-by-hop visibility into network underlay, overlay, and application performance from the Meraki MX appliance to any application or service, whether on-premises or in the cloud."