ManageEngine OpManager vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

ManageEngine and VMware are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ManageEngine is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.4, while VMware is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.9. ManageEngine holds a 1.7% mindshare in NMS, compared to VMware’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of ManageEngine users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

ManageEngine OpManager

Read 51 ManageEngine OpManager reviews

3,524 Views
2,081 Comparison Views

83% willing to recommend

vRealize Network Insight

Read 46 vRealize Network Insight reviews

1,506 Views
883 Comparison Views

89% willing to recommend

ManageEngine OpManager

vRealize Network Insight

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ManageEngine OpManager and vRealize Network Insight offer significant benefits in network monitoring and management. OpManager is praised for its pricing and support efficiency, while vRealize Network Insight stands out in features and integration.

Features: ManageEngine OpManager includes network device monitoring, robust server monitoring, and an alerting system for real-time failure detection. It offers detailed network visibility and capacity management tools. Its integration capabilities and FIM and SIEM features are highly regarded. vRealize Network Insight is known for rich visualization of network flows, an intuitive interface, and microsegmentation facilitation. It provides extensive monitoring and analysis capabilities, crucial for network planning and troubleshooting.

Room for Improvement: ManageEngine OpManager needs better support, enhanced dashboard customization, and improved documentation. Stability during upgrades and a more intuitive configuration process require attention. vRealize Network Insight could benefit from expanded third-party support, simplified integrations, and reduced costs. Enhancements in microsegmentation rules and interoperability with multi-vendor environments are also necessary.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ManageEngine OpManager is mainly deployed on-premises and receives mixed feedback regarding support. Some users have excellent experiences, while others encounter delays. Technical assistance is generally responsive. vRealize Network Insight, also primarily on-premises, has excellent customer and technical support, though there is a need for 24/7 coverage and quicker escalation processes.

Pricing and ROI: ManageEngine OpManager is cost-effective, with a competitive pricing model offering quick ROI through reduced staffing needs and improved uptime. vRealize Network Insight is more expensive, but the cost is justified through its comprehensive features, providing immediate ROI through enhanced uptime and reduced troubleshooting time with its monitoring capabilities.

To learn more, read our detailed ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight Report (Updated: March 2025).

Buyer's Guide

ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight

March 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 839,422 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

ManageEngine OpManager

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

20th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ManageEngine OpManager is 1.7%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.6%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software

Featured Reviews

MUBDIUL ISLAM

Junior System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited

NetFlow monitoring has improved operations but needs better configurations

For the implementation part, I am facing issues when configuring the business view. When I create the business view, I experience problems with the port interface. When I add the interface, I am confused about which interface is connected to which endpoint. If identifying the interface was easier, it would take less time to configure. Another issue is with threshold values; sometimes, it shows kilobytes (kB) while our threshold is set to gigabytes. This can be confusing. Improving this aspect would be beneficial. In URL monitoring, there is room for enhancement.

Read full review

NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

The tool's configuration is easy and artifacts are easily accessible through professional services and the web

The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage and monitor the environment. Instead of being reactive, it's proactive."

"OpManager can monitor network utilization, downtime, and services in real time."

"Flexibility in the two view dashboard helps viewers and admins get the information they need about the fetwork in a flash."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to reach most of our network devices and get the most from them."

"The traffic monitoring and the traffic analysis are great."

"I liked Network Configuration Manager. They had some pretty decent features there, and they also had pretty good monitoring and alerts."

"I like being able to push configurations to multiple devices. If you have the same configurations for all the branches, it's easier to use ManageEngine OpManager and push configurations at once rather than individually pushing them to each device."

"Device backups are smooth and managed centrally, with a nice dashboard, so you can quickly see the status."

More ManageEngine OpManager pros

"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."

"One of the most valuable features is the ability to look at the traffic flows, to look at NetFlow data."

"It especially helps with deploying NSX, that you're not having to manually chase down and figure out what you need to do to microsegment VMs. This gives a nice option where you can say, "Hey, this VM, show me what flows are there." I can export it out and then import it as an NSX rule and job done."

"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."

"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."

"The gradual way the Network Insight shows you all the relevant information about your networks. It's pretty good. You can really dig deep deep inside and see where the problem is, where it comes from, what you have inside, how did you configure it. Also, it has alerts so you can have pretty much quite a big overview about your network. This is really something good."

"What's valuable to us is the ability to get a view into the virtual space, which is something we haven't had before. Before, it was done by collecting from network endpoints and extrapolating into the virtual environment. Now it's coming directly from the virtual environment."

"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."

More vRealize Network Insight pros

Cons

"OpManager is slow but that just might be the server we have it on. I don't think that's the problem but I don't do the server. But it is slow. When you're interacting with it, it could be more nimble and could be faster."

"There should be an option to get mobile notifications or SMS mirror notifications for critical issues. That way, when we don't have access to email, we can still receive notifications via our phones."

"The dashboard has some limitations and should be more user-friendly."

"WMI and SNMP integration with the domain controller should be seamless"

"The licensing for this solution is not straightforward and should be improved."

"The storage level monitoring needs improvement. It needs storage level monitoring on the server itself. That feature is lacking right now."

"The two views into the system are very good but could be extended to further customization to fit the need of end users in a variety of roles."

"They should add more features to URL monitoring."

More ManageEngine OpManager cons

"If it had some kind of plugins with vSphere, more effective plugins with Horizon View or other VMWare products, if it had interconnectivity, I think it would be more effective than it is today."

"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."

"After Broadcom acquired VMware, I would rate their support at five or less in many cases. It's difficult to find necessary documentation, open tickets, and get support."

"When we talk about those micro-segmentation rules, there's an Export function. It is very macro-segmentation oriented instead. So if you choose an application, it will find the tiers within that application and say that it's communicating on, say, port 80 to a separate VLAN. There might be 200 machines in that other VLAN. You don't want to open port 80 at all of them. So we need a lot more granularity in those suggested firewall rules."

"I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."

"While it's not exactly a feature, what normally happens when we are trying to look at the VM flow portion is - although Network Insight does have options to integrate a few physical switches into it - we can't really get an end-to-end flow of the network. We might be using a few switches that are not supported by Network Insight. That is where they can improve, in the support for more physical switches and network devices."

"The UI, even though once you get to know it, it's easier, still it's hard to figure out by yourself. You have to go read, watch videos. It has a lot of data on it. So that is an issue."

"It needs to be a little easier to use and to understand the information it's putting out. That would make it more helpful. If you're not a network person you need to understand things like network policies and concepts. If you gave it to a regular admin, it would be nice if it were easier for them to pick up what is going on, understand the flows and whether or not stuff should be talking to each other, as opposed to just port groups and IP addresses."

More vRealize Network Insight cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is highly affordable"

"The solution's licensing costs are yearly and based on the number of applications."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"We have a standard license for ManageEngine OpManager. We purchased the license for one year and now we are upgrading it soon."

"The licensing costs depend on the number of devices and accounts that are being monitored by the solution."

"ManageEngine OpManager is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"The pricing is moderate."

"The price of ManageEngine OpManager is reasonable. We have an annual license and the cost comes from how many devices are being monitored. There is not anything extra cost for maintenance and support."

More ManageEngine OpManager pricing and cost advice

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."

More vRealize Network Insight pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Network Monitoring Software solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

839,422 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

53%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ManageEngine OpManager?

The product provides intensive reports.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine OpManager?

The pricing was okay. However, it has been increasing a lot lately. The product is not worth the money.

See all answers

What needs improvement with ManageEngine OpManager?

See all answers

What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

The sales team often complains about the cost whenever we need to quote vRealize Network.

See all answers

What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Since Broadcom acquired VMware, it has been experiencing challenges. Many sales processes are not well defined. They can show a little bit more information because vRealize Network Insight is virtu...

See all answers

Comparisons

SolarWinds NPM vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 26% of the time

Zabbix vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 17% of the time

PRTG Network Monitor vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 12% of the time

WhatsUp Gold vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 7% of the time

SCOM vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 7% of the time

More ManageEngine OpManager Competitors

ThousandEyes vs vRealize Network Insight

Compared 24% of the time

SolarWinds NPM vs vRealize Network Insight

Compared 17% of the time

DX NetOps vs vRealize Network Insight

Compared 14% of the time

AppNeta by Broadcom vs vRealize Network Insight

Compared 13% of the time

VMware Aria Operations for Applications vs vRealize Network Insight

Compared 11% of the time

More vRealize Network Insight Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

ManageEngine OpManager

February 2025

Download ManageEngine OpManager product report

Buyer's Guide

vRealize Network Insight

February 2025

Download vRealize Network Insight product report

Also Known As

OpManager

Arkin

Overview

ManageEngine OpManager is a network, server, and virtualization monitoring software that helps SMEs, large enterprises and service providers manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to setup a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation.

ManageEngine

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

VMware

Sample Customers

Bonita, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Galaxy, Fiserv Credit Union Division, Universitas 21 Global, ERP Suites LLC

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

Buyer's Guide

ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight

March 2025

Free Report: ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight

Find out what your peers are saying about ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight and other solutions. Updated: March 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

839,422 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight report.

See our list of best Network Monitoring Software vendors.

We monitor all Network Monitoring Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.