We performed a comparison between ThousandEyes 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"We can see everything going on in NSX and get a good picture of our environment."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's user-friendly. It's similar to the GUI that most VMware products are moving to, and the consistency across those makes it easy to switch from one product to another. Also, the search bar at the top is plain text and it helps you, it guides you along with your search query, so that helps. The first day you're in there you can start building actual queries."
"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 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 most valuable feture is NetFlow to help us understand how VMs communicate with each other over ports that are known and ports that are also unknown to us. Our company is a security company, so it's very important for us to know exactly which VMs are doing what at all times."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
"vRNI needs more remediation where it hooks into NSX."
"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."
"The virtual appliance has rebooted."
"The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private cloud setup, such as VMware. Another segment operates within public cloud environments like Azure and AWS, and a portion remains in traditional data centers. There should be seamless interoperability between public and private clouds. AWS and VMware need to work together to make it possible. Whether users interact with on-premise infrastructure or configure resources in the public cloud, the user experience must be seamless."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."
ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. ThousandEyes is rated 8.4, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with NETSCOUT vSTREAM, AppNeta by Broadcom, Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and SolarWinds NPM. See our ThousandEyes vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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