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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 #77, while VMware is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.8. IDERA holds a 0.1% 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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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
110th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
77th
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
23rd
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
23rd
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 May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is 0.1%, down 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 most valuable feture is NetFlow to help us understand how VMs communicate with each other over ports that are known and ports that are also unknown to us. Our company is a security company, so it's very important for us to know exactly which VMs are doing what at all times."
"With this product, we can precisely identify communication patterns between virtual machines within our data center, whether it's east-east or east-west communication."
"The most valuable feature for us is that insight into what our network is really doing - it's a fairly complex network. Not having to go through thousands of lines of network configuration to find firewall ports that were open or closed, for various ports, was very valuable. It went out and found everything we need very quickly."
"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."
"It provides deep visibility into what is happening with traffic and helps us manage our network."
"vRNI can trace the flow of each and every packet and it is easy for us to troubleshoot all the issues that we do have with the networking. We can trace down the packet to a point where it has been dropped."
"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."
"The most valuable feature is the profiling of the applications for micro-segmentation... It has made the migration to NSX much easier. Most of the sys admins within the smaller silos, they have no idea what ports are needed to run their stuff at all. I am pretty sure the micro-segmentation would never, ever have occurred without it."
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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'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."
"vRNI needs more remediation where it hooks into NSX."
"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."
"The virtual appliance has rebooted."
"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."
"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."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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 has brought more money into our company."
"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."
"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."
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Manufacturing Company
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Government
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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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