We performed a comparison between NETSCOUT vSTREAM and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."
"It allowed us to set up NSX and to do microsegmentation, without all of the pain points of having to determine each port and each IP address that needed to have access, and which ones needed to be blocked."
"It provides deep visibility into what is happening with traffic and helps us manage our network."
"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."
"The most valuable feature is being able to easily see the path that the VM traffic is taking, what ports are in use."
"The most valuable feature is the profiling of the applications for micro-segmentation... It has made the migration to NSX much easier. Most of the sys admins within the smaller silos, they have no idea what ports are needed to run their stuff at all. I am pretty sure the micro-segmentation would never, ever have occurred without it."
"The most valuable feature for us is that insight into what our network is really doing - it's a fairly complex network. Not having to go through thousands of lines of network configuration to find firewall ports that were open or closed, for various ports, was very valuable. It went out and found everything we need very quickly."
"As a troubleshooting tool, it's a level-3 troubleshooting-skills tool and it's very easy to use and very easy to find the information that you need."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"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."
"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."
"The virtual appliance has rebooted."
"If it were more application-aware, more descriptive; if it were able to determine the application that is actually doing the communication, that would be easier. More application information: which user or account it's accessing, is it accessing this application, doing these calls, if it is accessing a script, what script is it accessing. Things like that would provide deeper analytics so I can track what's going on. It would not just be, "These people shouldn't be talking," but who is actually doing these calls."
"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
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NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 73rd in Network Monitoring Software while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 22nd in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with Arista Data ANalyZer, Azure Network Watcher and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, AppNeta by Broadcom, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and DX Spectrum. See our NETSCOUT vSTREAM vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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