NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

NETSCOUT and VMware are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. NETSCOUT is ranked #78, while VMware is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.8. NETSCOUT holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to VMware’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of NETSCOUT 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 10, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG are competing in the network monitoring and analytics category. vRealize has an edge in integration and pricing, while NETSCOUT leads in real-time analysis capabilities.

Features: vRealize Network Insight offers network visualization, troubleshooting, and integration with VMware environments. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG provides advanced packet analysis, real-time monitoring, and flexible deployment options, catering to organizations requiring in-depth traffic insights.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could enhance real-time capabilities, broaden third-party compatibility, and expand packet-level analysis. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG might improve ease of deployment, reduce initial configuration complexity, and offer more cost-effective pricing plans.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight features a straightforward deployment with quick setup in VMware frameworks and provides responsive customer service. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG demands more comprehensive configuration, supported by detailed documentation and professional support.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight is noted for competitive pricing and substantial ROI, suitable for budget-conscious businesses. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG carries a higher setup cost, justified by its extensive capabilities, resulting in favorable ROI for enterprises seeking advanced network intelligence.

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NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. vRealize Network Insight

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

78th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

34th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (39th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.6%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Michael Gideon Genita

Associate System Engineer at SMS Global Technologies, Inc.

Easy to set up with good documentation and helpful support

I'm using it for a customer The packet flow switch is the most valuable aspect of the solution. It's an easy product to set up. We can scale the solution if we need to. It's stable. The documentation is well-written and quite useful. It's compatible with other products. Under the pocket flow…

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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

"The tool has the ability to look back within a month's data. It is very easy to navigate within the tool and troubleshoot the problem, compared to other solutions that we've used in the past."

"It allows us to get quicker resolutions. We can see exactly what is using up the bandwidth, so we can assist end users."

"The most valuable features are speed and cost."

"The ability to troubleshoot customers' connectivity has been very beneficial."

"It is very rock solid. We hardly have any hardware issues."

"The most valuable feature is utilization."

"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."

"When we have mobile operators who are signal partners, where one is the roaming host and another is the roamer, we are able to see their traffic. Their packets are able to detect if any faults to develop, and at what point they fail."

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

"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."

"Whenever we say "valuable" with respect to the network, it's more towards the security. The firewall rule issues it shows us and the recommendations that we get from vRNI are the most valuable features because they are actually making our network more secure."

"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."

"The automation collects all the relationships between servers, allowing us to visualize these relationships and organize the migration into waves."

"It has really tightened down the security. That was something that we were lacking. It has also given us deep visibility into our network. We can really get down and see all of the traffic within the data center, between the VMs, between the applications, database servers, other application servers, web servers. We can identify everything that is communicating, and we can see it all on one product."

"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."

"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."

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Cons

"The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."

"The single pane of glass feed still needs work."

"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."

"I would like to see an improved level of stitching between IPs."

"It's not able to communicate with our probes."

"We don't use the single pane of glass view, even though we own it."

"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."

"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."

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

"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."

"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."

"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."

"vRNI needs more remediation where it hooks into NSX."

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

"When we talk about those micro-segmentation rules, there's an Export function. It is very macro-segmentation oriented instead. So if you choose an application, it will find the tiers within that application and say that it's communicating on, say, port 80 to a separate VLAN. There might be 200 machines in that other VLAN. You don't want to open port 80 at all of them. So we need a lot more granularity in those suggested firewall rules."

"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is a little high."

"To capture more with the solution that we bought, you have to buy another InfiniStreamNG, and there are only four ports in the back."

"This product could be cheaper."

"The scalability is good, but it comes at a cost. E.g., if you need 100 InfiniStream because you are sending gigs or terabytes of data to one InfiniStream, then you will have to purchase another InfiniStream, which are not cheap."

"It can be scalable. It just costs too much. With a company as big as ours, it gets too expensive to accommodate every single site."

"I would like it to be more scalable with less spend."

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

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Energy/Utilities Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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

InfiniStreamNG, NETSCOUT ISNG, Infinistream

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Overview

NETSCOUT’s new ISNG platform harnesses the power of IP intelligence by mining traffic in real-time to deliver accurate and actionable data for service assurance, cybersecurity and business intelligence applications. The InfiniStreamNG platform fully supports the nGeniusONE and Iris application suites.

NETSCOUT

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

U.S. Department of Defense

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

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