OP5 Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

ITRS and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ITRS is ranked #38 with an average rating of 8.0, while VMware is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.8. ITRS holds a 0.8% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

OP5 Monitor

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

VRealize Network Insight and OP5 Monitor are competing network management solutions. VRealize Network Insight seems to have the upper hand with its comprehensive analytics capabilities, while OP5 Monitor's strength lies in its customization and flexibility.

Features: VRealize Network Insight provides advanced tools for network visualization, analytics offering deep insights into physical and virtual environments. It excels in proactive monitoring and troubleshooting. OP5 Monitor delivers extensive alerting capabilities, praised for its flexibility and scalability, making it ideal for customized network environments.

Room for Improvement: VRealize Network Insight could enhance its customization options to meet varied business needs better. Improved scalability could benefit larger organizations. Integration with third-party tools is another area for development. OP5 Monitor may enhance its user interface for more intuitive use. Reducing setup complexity could help attract users seeking quicker deployment. Offering enhanced analytics would meet the demands of users needing deeper insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VRealize Network Insight offers straightforward deployment with strong support services. It suits organizations seeking smooth implementation with organized assistance. OP5 Monitor, while providing detailed guidance and support, requires more setup complexity due to its adaptable nature, making it suited for businesses prioritizing customization.

Pricing and ROI: VRealize Network Insight comes with premium pricing reflecting its high-end analytical capabilities, offering strong ROI for enterprises leveraging its full features. OP5 Monitor, typically more cost-effective, presents good ROI through cost-efficient customization options. Organizations must balance initial costs against long-term returns, deciding whether comprehensive analytics or cost-efficiency holds more value.

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Categories and Ranking

OP5 Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

38th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

38th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

23rd

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

23rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of OP5 Monitor is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Harish Venkateshappa

Information Technology Staff at GlobalFoundries

Useful online resources, customizable, and highly effective monitoring

The solution is useful for tweaking. However, there have been some negative experiences, such as limited report capabilities. The only report available is in PDF format, making it difficult for teams managing multiple servers to extract data in Excel format. The speaker recommends that the team improve the report capabilities to better serve users. If there are corrupt files the data can be extracted from them. Anyone who wants to see the performance of memory usage, such as whether it's at 80 to 90 percent, can use this tool. However, other tools can provide this information in two minutes, this tool is more time-consuming and the report it provides is not very effective for practical use. When it comes to reports, the tool falls short. During a recent call, it was noted that while the company has distributed servers across the globe, only the master server can accommodate the reports and events, causing delays. If other servers experience issues, the team cannot view the reporting or tag things, such as for troubleshooting purposes. If this aspect was improved it would be an excellent tool.

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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.

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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 API makes it pretty easy to integrate with any system."

"With limited hardware or a virtual machine, you can address a huge network, hundreds of thousands of elements that need to be monitored. Other commercial software is not on that level."

"OP5 Monitor is a great choice due to its being built on an open-source monitoring tool and provides ample opportunity for customization based on specific support requirements. It is also user-friendly and easy to manage with a wide range of plugins available for use. In comparison to other enterprise tools, such as Micro Focus, OP5 Monitor stands out for its features and cost-effectiveness, making it the best tool in the market. Customization is one of the key strengths of the tool and provides a lot of capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to find support and plugins for the tool through online resources."

"It monitors and continuously tests everything that is of importance to you and your users. It could be everything from monitoring disk space to CPU usage to memory. It could include determining if the response time in your e-commerce platform is quick enough, or whether you have too many bounces from some of the pages on your website. You want to monitor anything that could cost you money or time or resources. You can do that with this system. It's very flexible."

"The best feature is that it is very relatable, stable, and scalable. The logger is a part of the software, but it's not the most important point of it."

"We can also observe whatever we want, and there are no limitations."

"It helps a lot because, until now, we didn't have the tools to figure out the micro level, VM-to-VM kind of traffic; that was not in the current environment. We could not figure out VM-to-VM communication from the other tools. This is the tool which gives us end-to-end transparency."

"The solution helps reduce time to value, increase performance, provide deep visibility, and easily manage networks."

"It provides deep visibility into what is happening with traffic and helps us manage our network."

"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 me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."

"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."

"It has enabled us to set up and do application discovery, as far as network traffic is concerned, and set up the appropriate rules that we need to make sure we're compliant with our security frameworks."

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Cons

"The user interface is not what we are used to these days, and should be improved."

"The solution is useful for tweaking. However, there have been some negative experiences, such as limited report capabilities. The only report available is in PDF format, making it difficult for teams managing multiple servers to extract data in Excel format. The speaker recommends that the team improve the report capabilities to better serve users."

"IT environments today are in constant flux. This is driven by the newer cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker, etc. The whole Nagios-based monitoring system that OP5 is created on top of, is based on a host-service model. There is a need for a strategy on what to do with more dynamic environments. There is some cool stuff going on in that direction."

"OP5 lacks some visualization, a feature that makes some other products nice. Op5 is built for purpose, which is fine, but if you compare it with some new products, the visualization is not so appealing, especially for management... If you don't need fancy visualizations, OP5 is fine."

"We do not get performance reports properly."

"They need to improve the dashboard interface."

"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."

"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."

"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."

"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."

"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."

"Support could be much better."

"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."

"There's enough information there, especially in the visualizations, but I would love to see this in a kiosk mode, where I could have a dashboard for interested stakeholders to see and appreciate what's going on. Then, moving on to a more practical level for our Help Desk, our operations team could benefit by seeing, in real-time, a visual view of the network."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"OP5 has a very low price as a solution, compared to many other solutions out there."

"The cost of the license and support are separate. If you want platinum call support, it will cost more than a regular call. I did not opt for it, as it is an additional cost."

"It was not expensive. And because it's less demanding in terms of hardware, you don't have to pay for another SQL or other database license, and you can have a huge installation on one machine..."

"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."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about OP5 Monitor?

With limited hardware or a virtual machine, you can address a huge network, hundreds of thousands of elements that need to be monitored. Other commercial software is not on that level.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OP5 Monitor?

Licensing is done yearly, or you can pay for a longer period. It was not expensive. And because it's less demanding in terms of hardware, you don't have to pay for another SQL or other database lic...

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What needs improvement with OP5 Monitor?

It's always good when it's open to more platforms, with even more integration, especially ticketing solutions like ServiceNow. I have built integrations with some other tools, so this is a point fo...

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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.

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

Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay. I liken the subscription model to not truly owning what you pay for.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Right now, I do not see a specific area for improvement. My main concern is understanding the intentions of Broadcom, which has acquired VMware. Broadcom should improve by going back to what was wo...

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Overview

OP5 Monitor - The Complete Monitoring Solution

OP5 Monitor is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring solution for all sizes of environments. Use just one product to monitor your IT environment regardless of location, whether on-premise, in dynamic environments, public cloud or a hybrid of these.

Digital transformation adds extra layers and complexity to the IT estate by creating a hybrid IT environment of both static and dynamic environments, that can be difficult to monitor efficiently. ITRS OP5 Monitor gives enterprises full visibility over their entire IT estate through a single pane of glass, allowing them to consolidate monitoring tools and cut down costs.

ITRS

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

Svenska Spel, Carus, VGL, Tele2, Viking Line, Clas Ohlson, Vanderlande, Försäkringskassan

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

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