LiveAction LiveNX vs NetApp Cloud Insights comparison

BlueCat and NetApp are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. BlueCat is ranked #29 with an average rating of 7.8, while NetApp is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.8. BlueCat holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to NetApp’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of BlueCat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

LiveAction LiveNX

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

LiveAction LiveNX and NetApp Cloud Insights compete in the network and IT infrastructure monitoring space. Cloud Insights seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive features, while LiveNX is favored for being cost-effective and having excellent customer support.

Features: LiveAction LiveNX is known for real-time network performance monitoring, in-depth troubleshooting, and network visualization capabilities. NetApp Cloud Insights offers robust monitoring for cloud and on-premises environments, advanced analytics, and anomaly detection, catering to multi-cloud environments.

Room for Improvement: LiveAction LiveNX can benefit from enhanced integration with external tools, expanded reporting functionality, and improved scalability for large networks. NetApp Cloud Insights may enhance its ease of use with streamlined interface navigation, address its steeper learning curve, and improve deployment times.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LiveAction LiveNX offers straightforward deployment, praised for seamless implementation and excellent support. NetApp Cloud Insights requires more configurations, but its customer service is noted for being helpful during setup, despite the complexity.

Pricing and ROI: LiveAction LiveNX typically involves lower setup costs, offering a favorable ROI for smaller to mid-sized networks. NetApp Cloud Insights commands a higher initial investment, offering justified ROI for organizations with complex infrastructures due to its comprehensive analytics and monitoring.

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LiveAction LiveNX vs. NetApp Cloud Insights

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

LiveAction LiveNX

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

29th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (29th)

NetApp Cloud Insights

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

33rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of LiveAction LiveNX is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Insights is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
LiveAction LiveNX	0.5%
NetApp Cloud Insights	0.4%
Other	99.1%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Ashwani Bansal

Senior Solution Consultant at Orange

Network management and diagnostics improved through effective monitoring and reporting capabilities

The solution is handy. I have not used that particular feature. Maintenance is required for the system. If you want to use something on the endpoints or end-user devices, then using LiveAction LiveNX in place of other tools would be quite beneficial. The solution impacts operational costs and resources. On a scale of 1-10, I rate LiveAction LiveNX a nine.

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Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Reduces troubleshooting time and improves operational efficiency through a single console

NetApp technology, specifically NetApp Cloud Insights, has significantly impacted the way my customers do business. One customer had multiple components, such as a VMware environment, Cisco switches, NetApp storage, and backup tools. Previously, the customer had to monitor all these tools individually each morning by logging into every console to check for errors or performance issues. It used to take them about 1 or 2 hours, but after we installed NetApp Cloud Insights, the time spent was reduced to just 5 minutes with a single console where they could monitor everything. The customer can integrate their VMware servers, Cisco switches, and storage with NetApp Cloud Insights to quickly identify any problems and resolve issues efficiently, demonstrating a reduction in complexity and monitoring time. The values that NetApp Cloud Insights delivers to my customers are evident in real examples, such as an application team running their application on a single VM connected through a switch and storage. When they experience a performance issue, the VMware team needs to identify the source of the slowness, whether it's from the server, switch, or storage, which requires a time-consuming investigation of each component. Without NetApp Cloud Insights, this process is slow and stressful for both the application team and the VMware team, but with the tool, a single click allows the customer to pinpoint the issue directly, improving response times to performance problems immensely. The evolving cybersecurity landscape and the proliferation of AI highly influence my customers' technology decisions, as having NetApp storage in their environment allows them to detect ransomware attacks effectively. NetApp guarantees data recovery in case of such attacks, and here, NetApp Cloud Insights plays a crucial role; it can identify where a ransomware attack originates, allowing the IT team to respond rapidly, such as disconnecting affected devices to mitigate the damage, especially crucial when multiple users are involved.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product has a very good graphical interface."

"On a scale of 1-10, I rate LiveAction LiveNX a nine."

"One of the valuable features is the ability to create CLI scripts on the fly to fix any issues. We were using it for QoS modeling to ensure that we were properly modeling QoS, and it basically said here is what you need to fix to get this QoS done, whether it is ACL or something else. It would either push or recommend. If you have the right credentials, you could also push. It is very good if you are a Cisco shop. It gives you reporting, latency, and bandwidth utilization for your applications, so you can do good capacity management planning. There are a lot of pieces that LiveNX can give you. It is a total NPM solution for SD-WAN."

"We provide a tool for our customers to manage their reports. It's an extremely highly featured platform capable of producing a lot of data. We spent quite a long time working with customers and LiveAction to create template reports, and they're very good and configurable. You get a lot of data if you don't configure them."

"We don't have any complaints about the software. According to my team, it's a very good tool that's very intuitive."

"Its analytical capability is really good."

"LiveAction LiveNX provides valuable real-time and historical network traffic visualization capabilities that help monitor and analyze network performance."

"The intention and the idea of the filter is great."

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"All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters."

"The solution is 98 percent stable."

"It is good for giving an overview of the systems and for tracking long-term trends. It is handy for root cause analysis, e.g. it can eliminate whether storage is the cause of an issue."

"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."

"The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable."

"NetApp Cloud Insights helps reduce the time spent on problem resolution by up to 50% for my customers, making their operations significantly more efficient and productive, which is a perfect outcome."

"Among the most valuable features are the queries and reporting that allow us to look at the utilization of resources, at how well the storage is performing, and to report on which resources are being used by which business units. We can track usage across the entire environment, across applications, business units, cost centers, etc."

"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late."

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Cons

"The tool crashes sometimes when we try to pull reports simultaneously."

"This is a horrible solution and I think everything needs to be improved."

"They need to create a more simplified UI."

"The product is weak in multi-tenancy. We have to install multiple instances of LiveAction, whereas we would like to build it once for our customers."

"The customer service and technical support of LiveAction LiveNX are rated at 4 out of 10."

"Improved documentation and more responsive customer support can help in addressing issues faster."

"Maintenance is required for the system."

"It is not as robust as other NPM solutions. For instance, there is a problem while labeling specific applications. It works well with well-known applications, but when you have to put in new applications that are not very known and set them up with names, ports, URLs, or some protocols, it is not as intuitive."

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"Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."

"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."

"The support is not very quick."

"Even though I work with NetApp, it still takes time for me to navigate and find components, so new customers might require considerable hands-on experience to efficiently use the console, indicating that it could be more user-friendly."

"Their pricing model needs improvement."

"In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex."

"Most of the time, I initially connect with entry-level support, and then I need to request a higher-tier support level, which can result in delays."

"When I did need support because I was having problems with the solution, the first or the second line just didn't understand it. They were providing this only on a software as a service basis. So, they were asking all the wrong questions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use the free version."

"It's very expensive."

"The solution is fairly expensive compared to other products."

"The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."

"The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."

"The solution is expensive."

"We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."

"Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."

"The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

33%

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about LiveAction LiveNX?

The product has a very good graphical interface.

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What needs improvement with LiveAction LiveNX?

The solution could be enhanced by implementing custom patterns for each customer.

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What is your primary use case for LiveAction LiveNX?

The customers use LiveAction LiveNX for network monitoring and management purposes.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Insights?

NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should req...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Insights?

The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about t...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Insights?

In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex. Even though I work with NetApp, it still takes time for me to ...

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Overview

LiveAction develops IT visibility solutions designed to simplify network management. Initially developed to aid the US Department of Defense in the operation of its networks, LiveNX (Network Experience) features an innovative visual display, real-time big data analytics and deep control of routers and switches for unparalleled network administration. LiveNX accelerates troubleshooting with its QoS control, application-aware, and WAN functionality developed through engineering partnerships with Cisco Systems.

BlueCat

NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

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Tampa Electric, Digital First Media, Allscripts, Boxwood Technology

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