We performed a comparison between Observer Apex and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the profiling of the applications for micro-segmentation... It has made the migration to NSX much easier. Most of the sys admins within the smaller silos, they have no idea what ports are needed to run their stuff at all. I am pretty sure the micro-segmentation would never, ever have occurred without it."
"The most valuable feture is NetFlow to help us understand how VMs communicate with each other over ports that are known and ports that are also unknown to us. Our company is a security company, so it's very important for us to know exactly which VMs are doing what at all times."
"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature for us is that insight into what our network is really doing - it's a fairly complex network. Not having to go through thousands of lines of network configuration to find firewall ports that were open or closed, for various ports, was very valuable. It went out and found everything we need very quickly."
"With this product, we can precisely identify communication patterns between virtual machines within our data center, whether it's east-east or east-west communication."
"If we deploy NSX it shows us how the workflow will flow in the organization, what the roadblocks are, and what we need to do to overcome those hurdles. When we run this product, it gives us reports which describe problems with physical switches. We work with the network team to get them all resolved."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."
"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."
"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."
"I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."
"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."
"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."
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Observer Apex is ranked 92nd in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. Observer Apex is rated 0.0, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". Observer Apex is most compared with , whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations.
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