

Catchpoint and vRealize Network Insight compete in the network monitoring and analytics sector. Catchpoint has an advantage with its strong external monitoring capabilities, while vRealize Network Insight is preferred for comprehensive network insights and advanced features.
Features: Catchpoint provides synthetic monitoring, real-user monitoring, and external performance diagnostics. vRealize Network Insight offers deep network traffic analysis, security insights, and detailed network analytics visualization.
Room for Improvement: Catchpoint could enhance its internal network analytics, improve integration with diverse systems, and offer more detailed traffic insights. vRealize Network Insight could simplify its setup process, reduce the complexity of its features, and improve user interface intuitiveness.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint is known for easy deployment and intuitive management, focusing on cloud integrations. vRealize Network Insight, though more complex in setup due to its extensive visibility features, supports hybrid cloud strategies and offers robust customer support.
Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint typically offers flexible pricing with a lower upfront investment, appealing to cost-conscious organizations. vRealize Network Insight may involve a higher initial cost but delivers higher ROI with advanced features suitable for extensive network analysis needs.
There have been fewer outages, and it is very easy to identify the issue of performance bottleneck through root cause analysis and insights.
Real-time monitoring of networks, websites, and apps gives insightful information which helps to make data-driven decisions.
We have seen a return on investment as we have fewer outages.
Catchpoint customer support is very helpful and proactive.
The customer support is always very friendly and responsive and always available twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week.
Customer support is available 24/7 and very proactive and responsive.
It's difficult to find necessary documentation, open tickets, and get support.
We are paying too much for technical support from VMware.
Catchpoint's scalability is great as it grows with my organization's needs and can handle those needs very well.
Catchpoint is stable as I have not experienced any lagging.
We are managing that one but usually we have an API connector between our firewall vendor and our VMware NSX.
Dashboard customization and UX should be improved.
I would also add that the script recorder needs some work due to an update by Google, deprecating the use of the current solution.
If we could receive similar data for the China market as we do for North America and Asia Pacific, this would be helpful.
Broadcom should improve by going back to what was working before, offering the suite of tools that clients actually use, and allowing clients to decide the best options for them.
The cost is very effective and relatively competitive.
Catchpoint's price is very cost-effective, but I don't know if it might be out of budget for a smaller organization working on a tight budget.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the cost was very cost-effective and affordable.
Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay.
The reduction in outages is notable, with a 60 to 70% increase in outages reduction.
Synthetic monitoring and root cause analysis have helped my team by allowing root cause monitoring to help us understand where the threat is coming from, enabling us to catch the threat before it impacts our users.
With the help of Catchpoint, we are able to address issues before our customers. Our triage time has reduced. We are able to reduce outages and unwanted user incidents.
One of the biggest problems with VMware NSX is logging, and vRealize Network Insight helps by providing comprehensive logs.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| vRealize Network Insight | 0.8% |
| Catchpoint | 0.5% |
| Other | 98.7% |


| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 12 |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 11 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 9 |
| Large Enterprise | 41 |
Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Internet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) suite offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs, and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.
Learn more at: https://www.catchpoint.com/
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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