VMware Aria Operations for Applications vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

VMware Aria Operations for Applications and vRealize Network Insight are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.5, while vRealize Network Insight is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.9. VMware Aria Operations for Applications holds a 1.2% mindshare in IM, compared to vRealize Network Insight’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of VMware Aria Operations for Applications users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of vRealize Network Insight users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and VMware Aria Operations for Applications compete in the network visualization and monitoring solutions category. VMware Aria Operations for Applications may have the upper hand due to its broader application monitoring capabilities across diverse cloud infrastructures.

Features: vRealize Network Insight includes network visualization, microsegmentation, and traffic flow analysis for effective network monitoring. It specializes in providing insights into virtual environments and is essential for capacity management. VMware Aria Operations for Applications offers extensive monitoring across multiple environments such as cloud platforms and features comprehensive app-centric capabilities, making it suitable for diverse infrastructures.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could enhance integration with firewall tools and improve application identification; users also face challenges with its licensing model and pricing structure. VMware Aria Operations for Applications can improve by adding more intuitive alerting and prediction features, enhancing interoperability with non-VMware infrastructures, and simplifying the initial setup process. Documentation and user education are areas both products can enhance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight is deployed on-premises and receives positive feedback for responsive and knowledgeable technical support. VMware Aria Operations for Applications supports on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, emphasizing flexibility. Support is similarly regarded well, with deployment needs varying based on scope.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight is considered expensive but offers valuable network insights and labor-saving features, effectively supporting NSX deployments and reducing troubleshooting time. VMware Aria Operations for Applications has a high pricing structure with multiple integrations needed, but it delivers substantial ROI by reducing deployment times and enabling application rationalization. Both products demonstrate cost reduction and operational efficiency, with user concerns about expense.

To learn more, read our detailed VMware Aria Operations for Applications vs. vRealize Network Insight Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (28th), Container Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (24th)

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

19th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.2%, down from 1.3% 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.

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

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

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

"No issues with stability."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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"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 is extremely intuitive and user-friendly. When you log in to the application you are presented with a dashboard that is very reasonable for an initial user, and you can then customize it to your specific needs. But for all the data that we've found, we've only had to go through two or three drill-downs to get into that information."

"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."

"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."

"The most valuable feature is the visualization. It's really handy to be able to classify network objects as with applications and see the interaction between them."

"A lot of time is saved when you use this type of software solution for the network. We have moved systems into the new data center and the servers and systems are much faster because of the very low latency between virtual machines."

"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."

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

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Cons

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

"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."

"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."

"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."

"An area for improvement would be more in-depth reporting, such as analyzing disk IO during business hours compared to after hours."

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

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"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."

"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."

"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."

"vRNI needs more remediation where it hooks into NSX."

"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 virtual appliance has rebooted."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"It has brought more money into our company."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

The deployment is fast if you know what you're doing. The pricing could be a limiting factor as it's usually not cheap, but they bundle it so it might include additional services.

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What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

I am not sure what can be improved. The solution could be expensive, which might be a limiting factor.

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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?

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

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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...

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

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.

VMware

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.

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Sample Customers

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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