Goliath Performance Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Goliath Technologies and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Goliath Technologies is ranked #60, while VMware is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.8. Goliath Technologies holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Goliath Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and Goliath Performance Monitor are competitors in the network monitoring and performance management category. vRealize Network Insight seems to have the upper hand in scalability and advanced analytics, while Goliath Performance Monitor leads in comprehensive monitoring and ease of use.

Features: vRealize Network Insight provides comprehensive analytics, supports hybrid cloud environments, and offers enhanced network troubleshooting capabilities. Goliath Performance Monitor includes in-depth monitoring tools for virtual desktops, real-time performance optimization, and application-specific monitoring tailored for healthcare IT systems.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight may benefit from improved user interface simplicity, reduction in deployment complexity, and enhanced support for non-VMware environments. Goliath Performance Monitor could improve in expanding scalability for larger enterprises, offering more robust analytics features, and integrating additional cloud environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight is more complex to deploy but allows seamless integration with other VMware solutions. It requires specific technical expertise. Goliath Performance Monitor offers a straightforward installation process and provides personalized customer support for smooth assistance.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight involves a higher initial setup cost, offering significant long-term ROI, especially for managing hybrid environments. Goliath Performance Monitor is budget-friendly with rapid ROI, particularly in application performance management scenarios.

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

60th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

40th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (35th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Goliath Performance Monitor is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.4%, 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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networke29316

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive

It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.

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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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Pros

"Offers a diversity of features."

"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."

"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 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."

"It's very user-friendly in the sense that the querying is just regular language like you and I speak or write. You don't need to know any SQL-query type of language to be able to get what you want out of it."

"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 automation collects all the relationships between servers, allowing us to visualize these relationships and organize the migration into waves."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"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."

"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."

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Cons

"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."

"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."

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

"After Broadcom acquired VMware, I would rate their support at five or less in many cases. It's difficult to find necessary documentation, open tickets, and get support."

"The compatibility with each and every component of the infrastructure is the main thing that I am looking for. I would like them to make sure that it's compatible with different kinds of storage systems, etc. I have seen the compatibility list. I feel it can be more compatible than it is right now."

"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."

"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."

"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."

"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."

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

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Healthcare Company

21%

Computer Software Company

15%

University

13%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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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

Goliath Performance Monitor offers proactive, end-to-end IT performance monitoring for Citrix & VMware to ensure a positive end user experience. Goliath Performance Monitor provides complete support for monitoring virtual server, virtual desktop and hybrid cloud environments, and provides specialized modules for certain EMR/EHR applications and NVIDIA GRID vGPU. Goliath Performance Monitor has been architected from the ground up to help IT administrators anticipate end user experience issues, troubleshoot the root cause, and deploy remediation actions quickly before end users complain.

Goliath Technologies

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

Walmart, Facebook, Xerox, UHS, ADP, Wyndham Worldwide

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

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