IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

IDERA and Broadcom are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. IDERA is ranked #70, while Broadcom is ranked #38 with an average rating of 8.3. IDERA holds a 0.4% mindshare in IM, compared to Broadcom’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IDERA users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Broadcom 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

97th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

70th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

34th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

38th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.7%, 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	0.7%
IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor	0.4%
Other	98.9%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Nafiu Garba

Special Assistant to the Governor ICT COO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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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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

"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 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."

"It has enabled us to set up and do application discovery, as far as network traffic is concerned, and set up the appropriate rules that we need to make sure we're compliant with our security frameworks."

"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 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."

"We haven't had any complaints about the stability of the solution or heard of any issues. None of our clients have mentioned running into bugs or glitches. There haven't been crashes."

"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."

"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."

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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."

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

"The only reason I would not give it a nine or a 10 is for cost reasons. It seems to be one of those things that really belongs as part of the product inherently and not as an add-on. That would be my only concern."

"The virtual appliance has rebooted."

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

"Since Broadcom acquired VMware, it has been experiencing challenges. Many sales processes are not well defined."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

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

"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."

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

"It has brought more money into our company."

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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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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.

IDERA

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.

Broadcom

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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