Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

Auvik and Broadcom are both solutions in the Cloud Monitoring Software category. Auvik is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.6, while Broadcom is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.8. Auvik holds a 1.9% mindshare in CMS, compared to Broadcom’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Auvik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

VMware Aria Operations for Applications and Auvik Network Management compete in IT operations management, with Auvik Network Management outperforming in overall features due to its comprehensive network functionalities, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is favored for its pricing and support.

Features:VMware Aria Operations for Applications provides predictive analytics, performance monitoring, and proactive management tools beneficial for application performance management. Auvik Network Management offers network visibility, automated documentation, and robust network management capabilities, enhancing IT infrastructure oversight and contributing to its superior feature set.

Room for Improvement:VMware Aria Operations for Applications could enhance its network management tools, improve scalability for larger networks, and offer more detailed documentation. Auvik Network Management may improve its application performance management, refine its pricing model for better cost efficiency, and enhance its user interface for more intuitive navigation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:VMware Aria Operations for Applications supports a straightforward deployment process with effective customer service, facilitating integration into existing systems. Auvik Network Management, utilizing cloud-based deployment, allows for rapid installation and seamless integration, with its network-centric support infrastructure boosting deployment efficiency.

Pricing and ROI:VMware Aria Operations for Applications is presented as a cost-effective choice with strong ROI for application-focused businesses, with pricing details often dependent on specific needs. Auvik Network Management involves a higher initial cost but provides substantial ROI through enhanced network capabilities, justifying the investment for comprehensive network coverage.

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Categories and Ranking

Auvik Network Management (ANM)

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

3rd

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

209

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (3rd), Network Troubleshooting (1st), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (2nd)

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

17th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (16th), Container Monitoring (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Auvik Network Management (ANM) is 1.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 2.2%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Auvik Network Management (ANM)	1.9%
VMware Aria Operations for Applications	2.2%
Other	95.9%

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reviewer2349501

Manager, Technical Services at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Real-time network visibility has transformed how we pinpoint LAN bottlenecks and resolve issues faster

The only area for improvement is pricing. Otherwise, the tool is great. I think the pricing is acceptable. If you are working with resellers, it makes it a little bit difficult sometimes for the reseller to be able to make too much, as the margin is not all that significant. However, we are not getting rid of Auvik Network Management (ANM). That is the only thing in my opinion that Auvik Network Management (ANM) can do a little bit better on—maybe just the pricing—but it is a great tool. We are not replacing it with anything and we are not removing it at all. It is a great tool, and we are able to monitor our own internal network as well as that of our customers. In most cases, we have not had any complaints about neither from my techs or from myself about its functionality, as it works really.

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Ajay Shukla

Consultant at HCLTech

Automation and insightful diagnostics elevate operations while improvements are welcome

The new version 8.18 has brought significant improvements. The main purpose of using this tool is having a single console to manage all entities. The cloud integration capabilities, including private, public, and hybrid, are already well-implemented. The ability to manage multiple vCenters across different geographical locations is very effective. The new Skyline health feature and certificate and licensing management are particularly useful improvements. The dashboard's overview tab provides comprehensive information about current vCenter status, resizable amounts, reclamation opportunities, anomalies, diagnostics, licensing, and certificates. However, there is room for improvement in application analysis. The current functionality lacks detailed monitoring at the kernel level, focusing mainly on CPU, memory, and storage matrices. Enhanced application monitoring capabilities, including tracking downtime for specific types of applications such as transactional or e-commerce applications, would be beneficial.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The biggest draw for me is the flexibility of being alerted. If something happens with my critical infrastructure, I get real-time alerts on it in Teams."

"Auvik Network Management (ANM) has reduced my meantime to resolution by 80%, because while 20% is my hard work, Auvik helps me with the remaining 80%."

"Auvik is easy to use. It took some time to set it up, and they were pretty good to us. They offered us around six sessions with a technician to help us set up the monitors we wanted. After we were trained properly, I had no issues using it."

"Overall, compared to everything else out there, it's a solid 10 out of 10."

"I would rate Auvik Network Management a ten out of ten."

"One of the features we appreciated the most about Auvik Network Management (ANM) was the auto mapping of the networks and quick and easy installation."

"We use Auvik Network Management for notifications and tracking anything that might be going up and down on our network on a daily basis."

"Automated configuration backups and automated network diagrams are the most valuable."

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"I find VMware Aria Operations for Applications to be very stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten."

"Using Wavefront, we have been able to reduce the complexity of our pipeline."

"Wavefront gives us the complexity we need, instead of spending time coming up with a nice dashboard from some other means, or just creating and coding our own app."

"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."

"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."

"VMware Aria Operations for Applications offers significant features such as real-time statistics, the ability to identify possible issues within the VM environment, and helpful heat maps."

"The stability of Aria Operations for Applications has improved significantly over the years."

"Scalability for VMware Aria Operations for Applications is easy to implement and manage."

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Cons

"The reporting needs a little bit of improvement. Sometimes, I get too many reports. Or, I don't get reports when I should be getting reports. I don't know if this is Auvik's fault or the devices that the reporting is coming from, but I have noticed there have been some discrepancies."

"The alerts are still a bit noisy. I know they are working on that. They're testing some changes to the data to dial down the noise. Sometimes, we'll get multiple alerts for the same issue until it's fixed. Since it's tied to our ticketing system, it's also generating tickets each time, so we had to turn off the ticketing until we got a better grasp on that."

"They need to improve the reporting system. They still don't have a proper reporting system in Auvik. They have built a dashboard in Power BI using APIs, but they should build some sort of report within Auvik itself. If Auvik fixes the reporting or comes up with a good reporting module, it will change the game."

"Auvik could have better compatibility with more devices."

"The price shouldn't be an issue for a larger organization, but a smaller organization or an MSP might struggle because the billing is per device. You're paying for your firewalls and devices that appear on the network. If you have a smaller organization with an extensive network, your revenue won't be able to support that cost. That's probably the biggest downside for me."

"It's missing the license checker feature. We are using Salesforce and the license is a really crucial part of the development, and we have to monitor it. Now, I have to write a script and then run it on a random Linux box and get a notification if it's expiring. It's a really specific feature. I'm not sure Auvik will develop it."

"Because we can't monitor as we would like, we aren't introducing anything more to the platform at the moment."

"The solution's interface isn't the most user friendly, however, once you get used to it and once you get into the groove and have a little bit of experience, it's pretty nice."

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"They just need more capability. A few areas still need more enhancements in the technology capability space."

"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."

"The return on investment is best suited for organizations that do not have the resources for a dedicated VM environment team. However, the cost of the product doesn't show significant benefits."

"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."

"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."

"The solution could be expensive, which might be a limiting factor."

"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."

"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They charge for switches and some networking hardware, but everything else is free."

"The price that Auvik is offering us is a little bit steep."

"The pricing gets pretty expensive because it is per device that is managed. It is not per site, so it can get pricey."

"The pricing is fair for the value and time saved that you get out of it. The larger you go, the more sense it makes per device, because as you hit different pricing tiers, it becomes much more affordable per device."

"Auvik's pricing is generally reasonable."

"It can get expensive quickly if we monitor a lot of devices, which is unfortunate because we have a lot of devices to monitor."

"The price for Auvik is affordable."

"If you're a small company, Auvik is probably quite reasonable. But we've got 500 servers, so pricing suddenly became a lot more of an issue. There needs to be better bulk pricing for it."

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"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

Government

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	147
Midsize Enterprise	32
Large Enterprise	23

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

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Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability

Overview

Auvik Network Management offers competitive pricing for essential network and infrastructure device management, providing robust features valued by enterprises.

Auvik Network Management delivers comprehensive network visibility and management through intuitive auditing, alerting, and discovery functionalities. It eases troubleshooting, automates configuration backups, and includes a user-friendly interface for effective monitoring and management. With real-time alerts and customizable notifications, IT operations are streamlined, while remote access capabilities enhance time efficiency. ANM supports integration with other platforms, effectively maintaining device inventories and visualizing network topology.

What are the key features of Auvik Network Management?

Auditing: Offers comprehensive network audits, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
Network Discovery: Simplifies the process of identifying network components.
Alerting Modules: Provides real-time alerts and customizable notifications.
Configuration Backups: Automates backups, safeguarding configurations.
Remote Access: Streamlines network management from any location.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating Auvik Network Management?

Enhanced Network Visibility: Offers detailed insights into network operations.
Time Efficiency: Remote access and automated features save valuable time.
Proactive Issue Identification: Real-time monitoring aids in identifying issues quickly.
Integration Support: Works cohesively with other platforms, easing management.
Operational Efficiency: Automates management tasks for improved productivity.

In industries such as IT management and network administration, Auvik Network Management is predominantly utilized for overseeing and maintaining network infrastructures across multiple locations. It offers capabilities for monitoring network topology, receiving alerts on device downtimes, and managing performance metrics. Users employ its features for proactive issue identification, and auditing, helping maintain oversight of networks containing switches, routers, and firewalls. Auvik provides remote access and automated backups, which contribute to enhanced operational efficiency and network visibility.

Auvik

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

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1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware

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