Centerity Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Centerity Systems and Broadcom are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Centerity Systems is ranked #71, while Broadcom is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.3. Centerity Systems holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to Broadcom’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Centerity Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and Centerity Monitor are competing network management solutions. Centerity Monitor has the upper hand by offering extensive features that justify its pricing despite vRealize Network Insight's appreciated pricing and support.

Features:vRealize Network Insight offers in-depth analytics, optimal network performance insights, and robust security enhancements for virtual and physical networks. It is suitable for businesses needing to manage network-focused environments. Centerity Monitor provides comprehensive IT infrastructure monitoring that spans networks, applications, and databases, making it ideal for businesses with complex infrastructural needs.

Room for Improvement:vRealize Network Insight could benefit from expanding beyond VMware-centric deployment, enhancing its flexibility in non-VMware environments, and improving customer service responsiveness. Centerity Monitor may improve by simplifying its onboarding process, reducing its learning curve, and offering more customization in reporting capabilities. Both solutions can further develop their user interfaces for intuitive use.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Centerity Monitor provides a versatile deployment model supporting varied environments with fast setup times. Its customer service is noted for being proactive and responsive. vRealize Network Insight offers a streamlined deployment for VMware settings, although its customer service, while effective, may not match Centerity Monitor for responsiveness. Centerity's support and deployment variety cater well to diverse infrastructure needs.

Pricing and ROI:vRealize Network Insight has a competitive pricing strategy with significant ROI for enterprises using VMware solutions, optimizing their network management. Centerity Monitor incurs higher upfront costs; however, it provides a substantial ROI due to broad monitoring capabilities and potential IT management complexity reduction. Centerity's extensive capabilities may justify the initial higher cost, especially for diverse IT environments requiring more comprehensive monitoring solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

Centerity Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

71st

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

40th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (40th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Centerity Monitor is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
vRealize Network Insight	0.5%
Centerity Monitor	0.2%
Other	99.3%

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Andean Region Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

A user-friendly solution that comes with a valuable machine learning feature

We use Centerity to monitor some business views related with ERP systems. For example we use this monitor to mesure electronic billing process. As a part of digital Transformation process coporation automates some process to avoid delays and human mistakes and we incorporated Centerity Platform to…

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Shaijith KB

Senior System Specialist at General Directorate of Residence and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA)

Comprehensive management and detailed reports benefit operations while improvements are needed in support and maintenance

We have Tanzu and OpenShift. We have OpenShift, Canonical, and the Tanzu one. The Tanzu platform from VMware is a Kubernetes platform. We haven't completely installed Tanzu yet; we installed the vROps part. vRealize Network Insight is beneficial because you can control the East-West traffic. vRealize has a component called NSX, which has East-West traffic controlling and micro-segmentation, that is one of the best options, and we have the layer extension, layer 2 extension possible through NSX. If you have anything accountable in any business, even in a candy business, having proper accountability on what you are selling and buying will save a lot. If you don't know what you're selling and buying, you will end up with a loss. My team does not use the flow analytics feature; we have a security and network monitoring team, which is a different SOC team. I am using it as an administrator internally. We perform different tasks including costing analysis, capacity management, and many other things. vRealize Network Insight has a concern about the maintenance part, as it requires a person to monitor it completely. It's not something you install and your report will be generated automatically. You have to work on this properly to get the insights. vRealize Network Automation, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Network Insight are completely related to the network. I cannot say much about these network aspects because I am on the operations side, but overall, the vRealize suite is good for reporting perspective or any ISO-related documentation; this is very helpful. The product is called vRealize Operations Manager, and now it is referred to as Aria or vAria. I am now a Senior System Specialist. We use different metrics because we have multiple departments, and we can monitor utilization and comparisons with the previous year. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.

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Pros

"The machine learning feature is valuable."

"The graphical interface of this environment is so good with all the views, the graphics, and everything in them. It's really easy for me. It doesn't need an engineer to work on it. It's easy enough that anyone can get into the environment and look for issues or look at how communication is going on across the VMs. It's pretty much straightforward."

"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."

"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."

"We're a smaller company so it automates a lot of the tasks and lets us focus in on building out our own solution. It's quicker, there is less building of manual solutions, and less downtime. It allows our developers to quickly develop, get provisioning done, de-provisioning, etc; the stuff that you would expect to be able to make it streamlined."

"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."

"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 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."

"It allows you to see traffic that you couldn't otherwise see, which is traffic within your Layer 3-bounded network, meaning east-west traffic. It's hard to get that any other way."

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Cons

"They can improve the functionality that provides some numbers related to the behavior of the metrics."

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

"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."

"If it had some kind of plugins with vSphere, more effective plugins with Horizon View or other VMWare products, if it had interconnectivity, I think it would be more effective than it is today."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."

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

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

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

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"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."

"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."

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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?

In VMware you have to buy a separate license for it. We have VVF and VCF-type of licenses, and if you want to go with this NSX and sort of higher-end professional services, you need to go with VCF....

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

There is room for improvement as not all cases are getting resolved, and we often do not get L3 support directly, having to go through L1 and L2, resulting in delays that usually are a headache for...

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Overview

Centerity is the pioneer provider of an All-in-One, IT Monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) platform. Whereas legacy tools have focused on monitoring individual technologies which led to silos of performance data, Centerity breaks down silos by extending its monitoring coverage across all technology layers, from infrastructure (physical, virtual, converged, AWS, etc.) to applications (OS, SAP, Cloudera, etc.) and databases (SAP HANA, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), thereby providing an integrated, holistic view of system health, performance and availability. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete business intelligence layer across all IT assets via cross technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities.

Centerity Systems

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

Centerity Systems has thousands of customers world wide, including Fortune 500 Enterprises such as Cisco, General Electric, Siemens, Harris Corporation, and Coca-Cola.

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

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