Opsview vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

ITRS and Broadcom are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ITRS is ranked #53, while Broadcom is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.3. ITRS holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to Broadcom’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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89% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Opsview and vRealize Network Insight are competing products in the network monitoring and management space. Opsview gains positive remarks for pricing flexibility and customer support, while vRealize Network Insight stands out for its robust feature set.

Features: Opsview offers broad monitoring capabilities supporting hybrid IT environments, scalable architecture, and seamless integration with ITSM tools. vRealize Network Insight provides advanced network visibility, troubleshooting, and security features, with analytics-driven insights into network performance.

Room for Improvement: Opsview could enhance its analytics capabilities, improve advanced troubleshooting features, and expand network visibility functions. vRealize Network Insight may benefit from simplifying deployment processes, enhancing user interface design, and refining support documentation for ease of use.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Opsview is known for straightforward installation and efficient customer support, making it suitable for businesses of various sizes. vRealize Network Insight, while offering comprehensive enterprise support, involves a more complex deployment due to its advanced functionalities.

Pricing and ROI: Opsview is considered cost-effective with quick ROI from lower setup costs. vRealize Network Insight requires higher initial investment but provides long-term value through extensive analytics capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Opsview

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

77th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

53rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (29th), Cloud Monitoring Software (41st)

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

40th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

40th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Opsview is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
vRealize Network Insight	0.5%
Opsview	0.5%
Other	99.0%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Jeff Cronstrom

Senior Director, DNS Engineering & Network Operations at CloudfloorDNS

A highly stable solution that can be used to monitor system availability

The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup. You can clone that service, and it allows you to add new services quickly. You can bring up new servers, and you can easily add them. Also, there's an API to be able to add services as well. We don't use the API. We mostly use the cloning function because it stores everything in a back-end database. The underlying monitoring platform for our version is Nagios. That's where we upgraded from Nagios to Opsview.

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Shaijith KB

Senior System Specialist at General Directorate of Residence and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA)

Comprehensive management and detailed reports benefit operations while improvements are needed in support and maintenance

We have Tanzu and OpenShift. We have OpenShift, Canonical, and the Tanzu one. The Tanzu platform from VMware is a Kubernetes platform. We haven't completely installed Tanzu yet; we installed the vROps part. vRealize Network Insight is beneficial because you can control the East-West traffic. vRealize has a component called NSX, which has East-West traffic controlling and micro-segmentation, that is one of the best options, and we have the layer extension, layer 2 extension possible through NSX. If you have anything accountable in any business, even in a candy business, having proper accountability on what you are selling and buying will save a lot. If you don't know what you're selling and buying, you will end up with a loss. My team does not use the flow analytics feature; we have a security and network monitoring team, which is a different SOC team. I am using it as an administrator internally. We perform different tasks including costing analysis, capacity management, and many other things. vRealize Network Insight has a concern about the maintenance part, as it requires a person to monitor it completely. It's not something you install and your report will be generated automatically. You have to work on this properly to get the insights. vRealize Network Automation, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Network Insight are completely related to the network. I cannot say much about these network aspects because I am on the operations side, but overall, the vRealize suite is good for reporting perspective or any ISO-related documentation; this is very helpful. The product is called vRealize Operations Manager, and now it is referred to as Aria or vAria. I am now a Senior System Specialist. We use different metrics because we have multiple departments, and we can monitor utilization and comparisons with the previous year. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It's a good solution. It covers all aspects of monitoring purposes."

"I am satisfied with the overall product since it works well…It is a stable solution."

"We use this solution for internal monitoring our own cloud platform because we are a public cloud provider. We also use it for monitoring purposes on behalf of our clients."

"What was very compelling about OpsView was that we could dial out the noise and have meaningful and actionable alerts."

"The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup."

"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."

"The most valuable features are the monitoring and tracking. It's also intuitive and user-friendly. The screen looks exactly the same as the other appliances for VMware, so it's easy to navigate."

"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."

"It gives the visibility that was either broken or there in pieces only. This solution provides a unified view of the whole system, back and forth. It has helped to reduce time to value, increase performance, more easily manage networks, and provide deep visibility."

"We're a smaller company so it automates a lot of the tasks and lets us focus in on building out our own solution. It's quicker, there is less building of manual solutions, and less downtime. It allows our developers to quickly develop, get provisioning done, de-provisioning, etc; the stuff that you would expect to be able to make it streamlined."

"It's user-friendly. It's similar to the GUI that most VMware products are moving to, and the consistency across those makes it easy to switch from one product to another. Also, the search bar at the top is plain text and it helps you, it guides you along with your search query, so that helps. The first day you're in there you can start building actual queries."

"What's valuable to us is the ability to get a view into the virtual space, which is something we haven't had before. Before, it was done by collecting from network endpoints and extrapolating into the virtual environment. Now it's coming directly from the virtual environment."

"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."

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Cons

"Some of the graphics on Opsview could be improved."

"Pricing and a few certain aspects in the solution needs to be improved."

"Maybe the graphical representation can be improved. It can be enhanced for better visualization. It could be a little better. And the graph center can be improved."

"In a future release, we would like to have Observ for AI. Any AI and intelligence it can add to the monitoring is obviously beneficial. We would also like to have automated callouts."

"Customized reporting can be improved."

"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."

"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."

"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 more reporting features, more dashboards."

"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."

"There could be some deeper analytics into packet inspection and trace flows. It could use some kind of machine learning to look at Layer 7 traffic for potential malware or corrupt packets."

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

"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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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is priced similarly to other tools offering similar features."

"I would rate pricing a seven out of ten, where ten is the highest price."

"The solution is not cheap. I think that the pricing is a little bit on the high side."

"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 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."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"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."

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

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	41

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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?

In VMware you have to buy a separate license for it. We have VVF and VCF-type of licenses, and if you want to go with this NSX and sort of higher-end professional services, you need to go with VCF....

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

There is room for improvement as not all cases are getting resolved, and we often do not get L3 support directly, having to go through L1 and L2, resulting in delays that usually are a headache for...

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Also Known As

Opsview Monitor, Opsview Enterprise

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Overview

Opsview is a modern and scalable SaaS or on-premise monitoring solution that gives your organization full visibility into on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure. It delivers simplified management and a single pane of glass view of your entire IT operations. The solution provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Additionally, it can be used either in agent-based or agentless configurations.

You can use Opsview to monitor:

 Operating systems

 Networks

 Cloud

 VMs

 Containers

 Databases

 Applications

Opsview Features

Opsview comes with an array of features, including:

 AutoMonitor express scan: This feature makes it easy for you to keep up with your

changing IT infrastructure by helping you find new Windows, VMware, and Azure hosts.

 Business service monitoring: This enables you to see the health of all your end-to-end

business services in real time and in one place.

 Autodiscovery: With this feature you can automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment, which helps you quickly populate information into Opsview for monitoring.

 Network analyzer: Opsview provides you with a complete picture of your company's

network infrastructure via its Network Topology, Flow Collector, & NetAudit modules.

 Customizable dashboards: Opsview dashboards give you a view of all your monitoring

metrics in interactive dashboards that are easy to create and maintain.

 Customizable reports: With Opsview, reports connect to the Opsview Data Warehouse and present historical data collected by Opsview. The solution’s out-of-the-box reports include performance, SLA, and events.

 Disaster recovery: Opsview gives your organization peace of mind with its disaster

recovery by restoring your Opsview system if needed.

 Event handlers: Opsview event handlers allow for automation and proactive monitoring so that your users are not impacted.

 Events viewer: The events viewer feature helps you easily see all the important events in your Opsview system.

 High availability server: Opsview has a high availability monitor that offers protection to ensure that you never lose IT infrastructure visibility.

 Multitenancy: Multitenancy makes it possible for your MSP to give control of Opsview to your end users. It also allows you to create new hosts and roles as well as users while using a secure, private environment.

 Log analytics: This feature allows you to improve logging visibility, reporting, correlation, and alerting.

 SNMP traps: With SNMP traps, you can reduce your network and server load and provide faster service to your customers.

Opsview Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Opsview. Some of the biggest advantages the

solution offers include:

 Extensible: Opsview can be used in agent-based or agentless configurations. In addition, it can sit above multiple monitoring tools, aggregating information into a single pane of glass.

 Scalable: Opsview is very scalable. It can easily scale beyond 10,000 monitored devices via its distributed model that spreads monitoring across many monitoring engines. Its databases may be located on dedicated servers to further distribute load.

 Functional overview: Opsview monitors your IT infrastructure, network and applications, and displays alerts. It is also designed to generate notifications and integrate with your other service management tools.

 Flexible: Opsview has a flexible web framework, allowing dashboards and monitoring views to be easily customized and extended.

 Integration: Easily integrate Opsview Cloud with your current operational tools, including help desks, service management, automation and notification tools

 Automation: Automate the configuration and operation of your IT monitoring system using Opsview’s intrinsic automation capabilities. Allowing you to spend more time on projects that drive your business.

Opsview Cloud

Opsview Cloud gives your business 24/7 Saas Monitoring for your entire IT estate. Benefits include:

 Reducing your infrastructure costs

 Realigning your resources to focus on business value IT projects

 Ensuring you have 24/7 monitoring

 Utilizing Opsview experts to provide monitoring best practices/tips and tricks

ITRS

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

IBM, BT, Cisco, Sky, UPS, Capgemini, Visolit, Fujitsu Services UK, UKCloud, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cornell University, Incomm

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

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