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Umbrella vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Umbrella
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (28th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Umbrella is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 3.9%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Umbrella0.8%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth3.9%
Other95.3%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Srivathsanr R. - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Business Finance at Zensar Technologies
Gained clearer financial governance and have improved cloud cost visibility and forecasting
I do not feel that anything needs to be changed. Umbrella is solving the purpose and is on point. The UI is intuitive and user-friendly. The learning curve is very easy. The features provided are on point. There is no downtime or challenges, and it is easy to learn and easy to use. In total, I do not feel that improvement is needed as per our organizational use case. Maybe for other organizations, they might have some suggestions, but for our organization specifically, I do not feel that they are lacking somewhere. It is already providing us the best thing. Almost everything is working as we expect. Small things we do not always point out. I feel that it works well and we do not have such problems with them specifically.
Cláudio Braga - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements
The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The software itself is very helpful for companies that are into enterprise systems and helps give you a very good modeling of what your request and your mission and vision is for your company, making the process seamless and more effective."
"Umbrella has positively impacted my organization by allowing our IT team to know that our users and our remote locations are having safe traffic and lowering the risk of malicious active actions and people going to the wrong websites, giving us ease of mind."
"Umbrella has positively impacted my organization by ensuring that if anyone wants to access any of the URLs, the URL will be blocked, and if they want to access that particular URL, it needs to be whitelisted."
"Anyone who is looking for a dedicated FinOps and AI anomaly detection and forecasting platform, which is good with transparent and clear costs and is also cheap compared to other solutions, can definitely give Umbrella a try."
"Before using Umbrella, we had a lot of complaints about users accessing websites and malware being downloaded onto the user's device, but after using Umbrella, issues related to malware have really reduced, and we are now fully satisfied."
"Umbrella is very user-friendly, the GUI is very understandable, and the traffic and detection are also fine and excellent."
"The job was done properly without getting into specific or complex situations, and it replied to our expectations."
"My advice is to go ahead with Umbrella; it is a very nice product with good customer support plus a return on investment, as you are investing $1 and you are getting a value of $10."
"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."
"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."
"Overall, it's one of the best products because it's easy to use and has a great dashboard."
"Cloud Health has tremendous scope, and is on many clouds, including Google Cloud, Amazon, AWS, and Azure."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations."
"It's one of our core tools within our Zones Cloud Platforms tool bag, when we're looking at how we help customers optimize their cloud spend across their Azure and AWS environments today."
"We have some experience with RackWare and Red Hat, and right now I believe this solution to be number one in the market."
"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers."
 

Cons

"I think Umbrella can be improved regarding AI capabilities."
"However, there can occasionally be false positives where legitimate sites are blocked and require review or whitelisting."
"Umbrella has a tier-restricted feature in the base package that lacks advanced features such as URL-level filtering or inspection and requires more expensive subscriptions."
"The accuracy of Umbrella's output is slightly missing, around 10 to 15%, and it does not provide accurate categorization compared to available market threat intels."
"Umbrella can be improved with easier migration and easier deployment, as we had to get some really specialized users in to deploy the software."
"Umbrella can be improved by adding DHCP services to be a full DDI solution, as most customers today are looking for a full DDI solution."
"Umbrella can be improved by providing something on a day-to-day basis so that users can be aware."
"A ten would be the case where we would never encounter any issues, or the proactive work would be really well done without any problems."
"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."
"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
"When you start to virtualize things it gets very expensive."
"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."
"Some companies may not be capable of affording this product."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Umbrella?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is neutral; it is not too good or bad, but reasonable for the market. Licensing is based on headcount in our organization, but now we need to ...
What needs improvement with Umbrella?
While Umbrella provides good visibility, reporting and dashboard customization could be improved by being more flexible, especially for management and compliance reporting. When a domain is blocked...
What is your primary use case for Umbrella?
My main use case for Umbrella involves whitelisting and blacklisting of URLs. I want to provide feedback on Umbrella as it functions. Umbrella provides strong DNS layer security and blocks maliciou...
What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...
 

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