VMware Aria Operations for Logs vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."

"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."

"vRealize Log Insight has been running without any issues."

"I like the interface."

"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."

"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."

"One of the most valuable features of vRealize Log Insight is that it gives you a clear forecast about your existing machines, for example, how long your machines could be supported and how long the remaining capacity is to host your machines. This is one of the best options available within vRealize Log Insight. Another valuable feature of the solution is automation. My company deploys a lot of automation when required in a very, very short period, and in a very uniform manner, and even if the automation is being deployed for different processes and departments, it's pretty much the same across the environment, so vRealize Log Insight helps reduce a lot of ambiguities and helps my company manage operational efficiencies well."

"The interface of the solution is good."

"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."

"The user interface is good enough."

"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."

"The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless."

"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."

"It handles the basics of monitoring."

"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."

"VMware Aria Operations for Logs is not a cost-effective tool. Additionally, it is expensive, especially given the current economic conditions in Turkey."

"I think that it should be able to integrate with other third-party backup and recovery solutions, more that it does now."

"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."

"Log retention should have more options for user control."

"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."

"It needs better integration with third-party analytics tools."

"What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects."

"The tool could be cheaper."

"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."

"Regional product team support is not very good."

"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."

"Improvements are needed in integration, especially for WhatsApp call and messages."

"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."

"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."

"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."

"I might like to see a better interface in the future."

"The pricing has been updated recently."

"Pricing could always be lower. If it were free, I would be more satisfied."

"The product's price is reasonable, but when it comes to SQL licensing, it's a bit expensive."

"I think it is a reasonably priced product."

"The license cost for any other monitoring tool is too high compared to this product."

"The licensing cost for vRealize Log Insight is a little higher, so in terms of cost, it all depends upon what kind of environment you have. If you have a complete virtualized environment, or at least you're using a ninety-five percent virtualized environment, then vRealize Log Insight will play a very good role because it is a VMware component, so it has very tight integration with other VMware components and systems. This means you don't have to procure any other monitoring and management tool, and you don't need a separate automation tool. vRealize Log Insight will have an upper hand if your environment is purely virtualized on VMware. If you're using a mix of physical and virtual components, for example, a 50:50 ratio, then you need to have a third-party component to manage overall monitoring."

"I am not sure what the exact cost is. However, I believe the vRealize suite costs $2,500.00 per year."

"Pricing is good because it is part of the suite package. It comes in a bundle for us."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."

"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."

"The tool's price is reasonable. WhatsUp Gold is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."

"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"This is a well priced solution."