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IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

IDERA and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. IDERA is ranked #69, while VMware is ranked #41 with an average rating of 8.7. IDERA holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IDERA users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.
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89% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor compete in network management and infrastructure monitoring. vRealize Network Insight holds an edge in scalability and integration, while IDERA excels in comprehensive monitoring features.

Features: vRealize Network Insight specializes in network analytics, offering network optimization and advanced integration with VMware. It enhances security by providing network-specific insights. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor offers robust infrastructure monitoring, comprehensive alerting, and extensive reporting capabilities for a wide range of IT infrastructure.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could enhance ease of deployment and simplify its user interface. It may also expand its integration beyond VMware for broader compatibility. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor can improve its scalability, integration with third-party systems, and advanced analytics capabilities for more detailed insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight requires complex deployment with a need for technical expertise but offers comprehensive customer support and extensive resources. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor provides simpler, quicker deployment and reliable customer service.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight involves a higher initial investment, justified by detailed network analytics and optimization. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor offers a cost-effective pricing model, providing high ROI through extensive infrastructure monitoring capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

IDERA Uptime Infrastructure...
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
111th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
69th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
vRealize Network Insight
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
38th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
41st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is 0.2%, up from 0.1% 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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Nafiu Garba - PeerSpot reviewer
It offers different licensing types that allow you to extend the services to clients; it lets you look into device performance and optimization and helps apply best practices
What I like best about IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is that it offers different licensing types. Hence, it allows my organization to extend the services to clients and not just use the solution within the organization. My organization can leverage IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to learn more about how clients perform because the solution lets you monitor and optimize devices and apply best practices.
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NiteshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
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

"My organization can leverage IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to learn more about how clients perform because the solution lets you monitor and optimize devices and apply best practices."
"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."
"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."
"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."
"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."
"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."
"It has really tightened down the security. That was something that we were lacking. It has also given us deep visibility into our network. We can really get down and see all of the traffic within the data center, between the VMs, between the applications, database servers, other application servers, web servers. We can identify everything that is communicating, and we can see it all on one product."
"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."
"We can see everything going on in NSX and get a good picture of our environment."
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Cons

"What I want to improve in IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is the community aspect, where IDERA would provide customers with updates on functionalities, what comes next, what IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor upgrades would be released, etc. I also want the sustainability of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to improve."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"It needs to be a little easier to use and to understand the information it's putting out. That would make it more helpful. If you're not a network person you need to understand things like network policies and concepts. If you gave it to a regular admin, it would be nice if it were easier for them to pick up what is going on, understand the flows and whether or not stuff should be talking to each other, as opposed to just port groups and IP addresses."
"There's enough information there, especially in the visualizations, but I would love to see this in a kiosk mode, where I could have a dashboard for interested stakeholders to see and appreciate what's going on. Then, moving on to a more practical level for our Help Desk, our operations team could benefit by seeing, in real-time, a visual view of the network."
"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."
"There could be some deeper analytics into packet inspection and trace flows. It could use some kind of machine learning to look at Layer 7 traffic for potential malware or corrupt packets."
"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm based in Nigeria, and the conversion rate affects the pricing for IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, but globally, pricing is reasonable. I'm rating pricing for the solution seven on a scale of one to ten."
"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."
"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."
"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."
"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."
"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 an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."
"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."
"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."
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Healthcare Company
8%
 

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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?
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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Also Known As

IDERA UIM, uptime software up.time
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Overview

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor helps IT administrators to unify performance monitoring and optimization of IT infrastructure. Unlike its competition, it provides monitoring of a broad range of platforms and applications, ability to set service-level agreements, and support of both agent and agentless monitoring.

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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

TeleComputing; Manitoba Hydro; Blevins Inc.; City of Malmö
NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet
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