Centerity Monitor vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

Centerity Systems and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Centerity Systems is ranked #67, while VMware is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0. Centerity Systems holds a 0.1% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Centerity Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Centerity Monitor and VMware Aria Operations for Applications are IT operations management solutions. VMware Aria Operations for Applications has the upper hand due to its comprehensive features.

Features: Centerity Monitor focuses on network monitoring, performance insight, and system alerting with integrated solutions across IT environments. VMware Aria Operations for Applications offers proactive application performance monitoring, advanced data analytics with strong IT infrastructure insights, and a focus on application-level analytics.

Room for Improvement: Centerity Monitor could enhance its application-level analytics, improve scalability for larger enterprises, and expand data analytics capabilities. VMware Aria Operations for Applications might benefit from simplifying its deployment model, reducing integration complexity, and optimizing costs for smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Centerity Monitor provides straightforward deployment with extensive support. VMware Aria Operations for Applications involves a more nuanced deployment strategy but addresses complexities with adept customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Centerity Monitor offers affordable setup and robust functionality with promising ROI. VMware Aria Operations for Applications has higher setup costs but potentially higher ROI through its sophisticated features and analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

Centerity Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

67th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

29th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (27th), Container Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Centerity Monitor is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.2%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andean Region Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

A user-friendly solution that comes with a valuable machine learning feature

We use Centerity to monitor some business views related with ERP systems. For example we use this monitor to mesure electronic billing process. As a part of digital Transformation process coporation automates some process to avoid delays and human mistakes and we incorporated Centerity Platform to…

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ToniLindberg

senior consultant at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB

Troubleshooting capabilities have improved application monitoring and support engagement

I can see what happens end to end, which is pretty beneficial. The solution has troubleshooting capabilities, providing a direct connection to knowledge base articles from VMware Broadcom. When I encounter an error, I can search directly within the system to see what solutions have been employed by others. It has a familiar interface, which makes it easy to get started.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The machine learning feature is valuable."

"The stability of Aria Operations for Applications has improved significantly over the years."

"It has a familiar interface, which makes it easy to get started."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."

"VMware Aria Operations for Applications offers significant features such as real-time statistics, the ability to identify possible issues within the VM environment, and helpful heat maps."

"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."

"It significantly improves application performance management by offering recommendations for resource allocation to avoid wastage or overcommitment."

"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."

"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."

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Cons

"They can improve the functionality that provides some numbers related to the behavior of the metrics."

"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."

"The solution could be expensive, which might be a limiting factor."

"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."

"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."

"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."

"I find that there could be improvements in the support service response time, as the urgency varies unless specified as Priority 2 or 1 cases."

"The return on investment is best suited for organizations that do not have the resources for a dedicated VM environment team. However, the cost of the product doesn't show significant benefits."

"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."

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"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

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Manufacturing Company

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The cost of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is fair and reasonable compared to what we receive in support and packages from VMware.

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I find that there could be improvements in the support service response time, as the urgency varies unless specified as Priority 2 or 1 cases.

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Also Known As

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Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability

Overview

Centerity is the pioneer provider of an All-in-One, IT Monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) platform. Whereas legacy tools have focused on monitoring individual technologies which led to silos of performance data, Centerity breaks down silos by extending its monitoring coverage across all technology layers, from infrastructure (physical, virtual, converged, AWS, etc.) to applications (OS, SAP, Cloudera, etc.) and databases (SAP HANA, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), thereby providing an integrated, holistic view of system health, performance and availability. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete business intelligence layer across all IT assets via cross technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities.

Centerity Systems

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

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Sample Customers

Centerity Systems has thousands of customers world wide, including Fortune 500 Enterprises such as Cisco, General Electric, Siemens, Harris Corporation, and Coca-Cola.

1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware

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