LiveAction LiveNX vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

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LiveAction LiveNX

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77% willing to recommend

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89% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

LiveAction LiveNX and vRealize Network Insight are network management solutions. LiveAction LiveNX offers a more favorable deployment and support experience, while vRealize Network Insight has a superior feature set, making it worth the investment despite potentially higher pricing.

Features: LiveAction LiveNX is renowned for its comprehensive network visualization, real-time data analysis, and extensive traffic insights. vRealize Network Insight provides deep analytics, robust forecasting, and enhanced security insights, making it a strong choice for complex networks.

Room for Improvement: LiveAction LiveNX could enhance its advanced analytics, improve its security insights, and offer more robust forecasting capabilities. vRealize Network Insight may benefit from streamlining its deployment process, enhancing its user interface, and improving initial setup support services.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LiveAction LiveNX is generally straightforward to deploy with accessible customer service. vRealize Network Insight poses more complexity during deployment but compensates with a depth of service capabilities once operational.

Pricing and ROI: LiveAction LiveNX offers a more cost-effective initial setup, appealing to businesses with tighter budgets. vRealize Network Insight requires a higher upfront investment but provides significant ROI through its comprehensive analytics.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

LiveAction LiveNX

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

49th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

48th

Average Rating

6.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

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

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of LiveAction LiveNX is 0.4%, down from 0.5% 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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Mahesh Doshi

IT at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Very good reporting and alerting abilities but inadequate enhancement support

Before choosing the solution, it is important to rank your requirements from high to low priority. The solution has a lot of features but at a high price. If you will only use 30% of the solution to meet your requirements, then it would be better for you to explore other products. Find the solution that best fulfills your requirements. The solution itself is great. If I could use it properly, then I would rate it a seven out of ten. Unfortunately, support is a factor when determining usability or cost effectiveness. We did not receive the needed support so had to stop using the solution. For that reason, my overall rating for the solution is a five out of ten.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"All in all, LiveAction LiveNX has become an indispensable tool for maintaining and improving our network's reliability and performance, ultimately supporting our organization's goal of providing timely and dependable delivery services."

"Its analytical capability is really good."

"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."

"The alerting feature is very good because it allows you to set MOS alerts at various network junctures or data points."

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

"The product has a very good graphical interface."

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

"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."

"A lot of time is saved when you use this type of software solution for the network. We have moved systems into the new data center and the servers and systems are much faster because of the very low latency between virtual machines."

"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."

"The most valuable features are the packet trace flow and that the view of the whole environment is deep."

"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 provides deep visibility into what is happening with traffic and helps us manage our network."

"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."

"The initial was straightforward. You can have it up and running in one hour."

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Cons

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

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

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

"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."

"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 only downside to this software is the price."

"Sometimes the solution does not register devices properly and that is a bug."

"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."

"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 UI, even though once you get to know it, it's easier, still it's hard to figure out by yourself. You have to go read, watch videos. It has a lot of data on it. So that is an issue."

"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."

"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."

"Support could be much better."

"If it had some kind of plugins with vSphere, more effective plugins with Horizon View or other VMWare products, if it had interconnectivity, I think it would be more effective than it is today."

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

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 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. Most of these analytical packages have the same ...

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What is your primary use case for LiveAction LiveNX?

Primarily, we use the product for monitoring the standard utilization of circuits. The tool has the incredible ability to provide granular details about the traffic passing through an interface on ...

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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

LiveNX

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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

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.

VMware

Sample Customers

Tampa Electric, Digital First Media, Allscripts, Boxwood Technology

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

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