Loom Systems vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

ServiceNow and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ServiceNow is ranked #66, while VMware is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.8. ServiceNow holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of ServiceNow 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 Loom Systems compete in network analytics and monitoring. vRealize Network Insight holds a pricing and support advantage, while Loom Systems is superior in features, providing comprehensive functionalities.

Features: vRealize Network Insight offers network visualization, troubleshooting, and planning, which enhance network performance and security insights. Loom Systems provides robust AI-driven analytics, predictive maintenance, and issue prevention capabilities, offering an edge in predictive insights.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could enhance AI integration, develop more intuitive interfaces, and improve troubleshooting depth. Loom Systems may focus on lowering its price point, expanding network-specific features, and offering more detailed network planning tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight ensures a seamless deployment with extensive integration options suitable for diverse environments. Loom Systems facilitates quick deployment with intuitive setup processes and strong customer service, prioritizing ease of use.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight features flexible pricing models with lower upfront costs, providing ROI through efficient resource use. Loom Systems, priced higher, offers significant ROI through predictive maintenance features, potentially reducing downtime costs and operational disruptions.

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Categories and Ranking

Loom Systems

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

66th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

23rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Loom Systems is 0.2%, up from 0.2% 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.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Keerthi Kumar Sangaraju

Technology Manager at FIS

Stable, easy to set up, flexible, and has multiple functionalities, but needs to define priority levels for each incident

What's lacking in Loom Systems is the level of priority for each incident. For example, after implementation and there was a huge impact on the client, and the client comes back to you and says that there's an incident, that there needs to be an immediate resolution for it, you'll see severity one, severity two, etc., in Loom Systems, rather than priority levels. It would be better if the incidents can be defined as low priority, medium priority, or high priority.

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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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Pros

"What I like best about Loom Systems is that you can use it for infrastructure monitoring. I also like that it's a flexible solution."

"The solution is absolutely scalable. If an organization needs to expand it out they definitely can."

"The RFS portion of the solution is the product's most valuable feature."

"You can develop your own apps within Loom, and they can be configured very simply."

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

"The most valuable feature is being able to easily see the path that the VM traffic is taking, what ports are in use."

"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."

"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'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."

"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."

"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."

"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."

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Cons

"What's lacking in Loom Systems is the level of priority for each incident. For example, after implementation and there was a huge impact on the client, and the client comes back to you and says that there's an incident, that there needs to be an immediate resolution for it, you'll see severity one, severity two, etc., in Loom Systems, rather than priority levels. It would be better if the incidents can be defined as low priority, medium priority, or high priority."

"The reporting is a bit weak. They should work to improve this aspect of the product."

"The discovery and mapping still takes a lot of human intervention, it's quite resource heavy,"

"The change management within the solution needs to be improved. There needs to be more process automation."

"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."

"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."

"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."

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

"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."

"While it's not exactly a feature, what normally happens when we are trying to look at the VM flow portion is - although Network Insight does have options to integrate a few physical switches into it - we can't really get an end-to-end flow of the network. We might be using a few switches that are not supported by Network Insight. That is where they can improve, in the support for more physical switches and network devices."

"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."

"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."

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"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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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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Overview

Loom Systems delivers an advanced AI-powered operational analytics platform to predict and prevent problems in the digital business. DevOps & IT teams use Loom for real-time detection and resolution for any type of application, including home-grown. Loom analyzes logs and metrics in all formats, performs smart correlations and root cause analysis to help organizations gain immediate into their environments. Loom stands alone in the industry as an AI platform requiring no prior math knowledge from its operators, leveraging your existing staff to succeed in the digital era. Getting started is easy - zero configuration and data pre-processing needed, so you can stream your data in its raw format.

ServiceNow

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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Citrix, Amdocs, Sysaid, Hexaware, Effibar, Revtrak, Taptica

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

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