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VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth pros and cons

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PROS

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud observability allowing for preventive action before service failures occur, offering transparency and visibility through pre-populated dashboards.
It provides valuable cost-saving recommendations and enables businesses to create internal pricing strategies, offering flexibility in pricing models for enterprise clients.
The platform supports multi-cloud environments, facilitating seamless monitoring and management across services including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, with effective security and compliance frameworks.
Organizations have achieved significant cloud cost optimization, reporting a 20-30% savings in costs and 30-40% savings in time, through features like instance rightsizing and unused resource identification.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard streamlines cloud management practices, allowing platform teams to make informed, data-driven decisions while optimizing cloud spend and ensuring compliance.

CONS

Setup costs for VMware Tanzu CloudHealth are very expensive.
Apptio Cloudability provides better granular data visibility than VMware Tanzu CloudHealth.
There is a need for more automation and flexibility for data input and event reactions.
Real-time cost synchronization in VMware Tanzu CloudHealth could be faster due to billing delays.
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth lacks features that allow real-time cost visibility and alerting.
 

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth Pros review quotes

Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
Jul 14, 2026
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth has helped me achieve twenty to thirty percent cloud cost optimization and save thirty to forty percent of the time.
HA
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
Jul 7, 2026
Customers do utilize a security and compliance framework with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth because larger institutions won't move forward without it, and they choose VMware to ensure a tested and foolproof secure environment that complies with regulatory standards such as VMware Cloud Foundation with its trust policies, making it quite good.
Cláudio Braga - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
Nov 11, 2025
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.
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reviewer2872983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 15, 2026
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth has positively impacted my organization by optimizing cloud costs and helping platform teams make data-driven decisions while ensuring compliance.
PrinceKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 15, 2026
With this, we have right-sized many instances, removed many unused EBS volumes, and unused Elastic IPs, and in that way, we have cut around 20% of cost.
SA
CDO at INOVA SOLUTIONS
Sep 28, 2026
There are two major reasons we are very interested in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth: First, the observability we can build into VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth allows us to determine what is happening before any service fails, and we are positioned to fix things preventively.
Bogdan-Dumitrache - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Logsoft Group
Aug 20, 2026
The dashboard helps to streamline cloud management practices, which is a good thing.
reviewer2891280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Aug 25, 2026
I appreciate the GUI interface of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, and it is very user-friendly.
Steve Staten - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Advisor Specialist at Converge Technology Solutions Corp
Jan 9, 2023
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.
Vishnu Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager Cloud And Datacenter Operations at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 26, 2022
The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations.
 

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth Cons review quotes

Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
Jul 14, 2026
Real-time cost synchronization could be faster, as billing data sometimes has delays.
HA
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
Jul 7, 2026
The weak points of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth are that while the product is quite capable, cost can be an issue at times.
Cláudio Braga - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
Nov 11, 2025
Some companies may not be capable of affording this product.
Learn what your peers think about VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: September 2026.
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reviewer2872983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 15, 2026
I have not seen a return on investment with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, as it is a monitoring tool.
PrinceKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 15, 2026
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth can improve by introducing real-time cost visibility and alerting so that we can better act on that.
SA
CDO at INOVA SOLUTIONS
Sep 28, 2026
Setup costs are very expensive.
Bogdan-Dumitrache - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Logsoft Group
Aug 20, 2026
The problem is how the new company decided to package the products and destroy all the old VMWare ecosystem that they had for partners and for all the tools that the partners had.
reviewer2891280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Aug 25, 2026
I am not really sure if I have seen a return on investment from using VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. I have not noticed money saved, time saved, or fewer employees needed.
Steve Staten - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Advisor Specialist at Converge Technology Solutions Corp
Jan 9, 2023
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.
Vishnu Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager Cloud And Datacenter Operations at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 26, 2022
It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office.