Goliath Performance Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Goliath Technologies and Broadcom are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Goliath Technologies is ranked #67, while Broadcom is ranked #39 with an average rating of 8.0. Goliath Technologies holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to Broadcom’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Goliath Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and Goliath Performance Monitor are competitors in the network monitoring and performance management category. vRealize Network Insight seems to have the upper hand in scalability and advanced analytics, while Goliath Performance Monitor leads in comprehensive monitoring and ease of use.

Features: vRealize Network Insight provides comprehensive analytics, supports hybrid cloud environments, and offers enhanced network troubleshooting capabilities. Goliath Performance Monitor includes in-depth monitoring tools for virtual desktops, real-time performance optimization, and application-specific monitoring tailored for healthcare IT systems.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight may benefit from improved user interface simplicity, reduction in deployment complexity, and enhanced support for non-VMware environments. Goliath Performance Monitor could improve in expanding scalability for larger enterprises, offering more robust analytics features, and integrating additional cloud environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight is more complex to deploy but allows seamless integration with other VMware solutions. It requires specific technical expertise. Goliath Performance Monitor offers a straightforward installation process and provides personalized customer support for smooth assistance.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight involves a higher initial setup cost, offering significant long-term ROI, especially for managing hybrid environments. Goliath Performance Monitor is budget-friendly with rapid ROI, particularly in application performance management scenarios.

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

67th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

39th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (36th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Goliath Performance Monitor is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
vRealize Network Insight	0.8%
Goliath Performance Monitor	0.5%
Other	98.7%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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networke29316

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive

It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.

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Shaijith KB

Senior System Specialist at General Directorate of Residence and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA)

Comprehensive management and detailed reports benefit operations while improvements are needed in support and maintenance

We have Tanzu and OpenShift. We have OpenShift, Canonical, and the Tanzu one. The Tanzu platform from VMware is a Kubernetes platform. We haven't completely installed Tanzu yet; we installed the vROps part. vRealize Network Insight is beneficial because you can control the East-West traffic. vRealize has a component called NSX, which has East-West traffic controlling and micro-segmentation, that is one of the best options, and we have the layer extension, layer 2 extension possible through NSX. If you have anything accountable in any business, even in a candy business, having proper accountability on what you are selling and buying will save a lot. If you don't know what you're selling and buying, you will end up with a loss. My team does not use the flow analytics feature; we have a security and network monitoring team, which is a different SOC team. I am using it as an administrator internally. We perform different tasks including costing analysis, capacity management, and many other things. vRealize Network Insight has a concern about the maintenance part, as it requires a person to monitor it completely. It's not something you install and your report will be generated automatically. You have to work on this properly to get the insights. vRealize Network Automation, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Network Insight are completely related to the network. I cannot say much about these network aspects because I am on the operations side, but overall, the vRealize suite is good for reporting perspective or any ISO-related documentation; this is very helpful. The product is called vRealize Operations Manager, and now it is referred to as Aria or vAria. I am now a Senior System Specialist. We use different metrics because we have multiple departments, and we can monitor utilization and comparisons with the previous year. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.

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Pros

"I would definitely give them high praise for what they do, and for being a special niche product."

"Offers a diversity of features."

"I like that the solution offers a diversity of things; it can give you resource monitoring, it can be integrated to detect an application crash, to capture syslog, things like that, and I like the diversity of the dashboard."

"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."

"I find that the interface of most VMware products is very similar, which I consider an advantage due to its ease of use compared to other tools like Splunk."

"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."

"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."

"The most valuable feature is being able to easily see the path that the VM traffic is taking, what ports are in use."

"We get proper reporting on different aspects such as utilization and health monitoring reports, including throughput details and network latency, and there are many things we can obtain from there."

"It allows us to go from virtual through NSX, up to the core, and see all of that in one pane of glass, it's pretty easy."

"What's valuable to us is the ability to get a view into the virtual space, which is something we haven't had before. Before, it was done by collecting from network endpoints and extrapolating into the virtual environment. Now it's coming directly from the virtual environment."

"It gives the visibility that was either broken or there in pieces only, provides a unified view of the whole system back and forth, and has helped to reduce time to value, increase performance, more easily manage networks, and provide deep visibility."

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Cons

"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."

"With Goliath IT Monitors, the processing speed is very slow."

"The setup is a bit complex."

"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."

"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."

"I rate it a seven out of ten, only because it doesn't have all the vendors - at least the switch vendors - in there."

"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."

"Since Broadcom acquired VMware, it has been experiencing challenges. Many sales processes are not well defined."

"The UI, even though once you get to know it, is easier, still it is hard to figure out by yourself. You have to go read, watch videos; it has a lot of data on it, so that is an issue."

"In terms of room for improvement, customer education is number one."

"Technical support has been responsive. The response has always been immediate. Whether or not they've fixed it immediately is a different story."

"The pricing is steep."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

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Computer Software Company

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Manufacturing Company

13%

Healthcare Company

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Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	41

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

In VMware you have to buy a separate license for it. We have VVF and VCF-type of licenses, and if you want to go with this NSX and sort of higher-end professional services, you need to go with VCF....

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

There is room for improvement as not all cases are getting resolved, and we often do not get L3 support directly, having to go through L1 and L2, resulting in delays that usually are a headache for...

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What is your primary use case for vRealize Network Insight?

We have Tanzu, and we also work with multiple Kubernetes services such as Nutanix and Google. We are working on these Kubernetes services on the operations side. For Tanzu, we have several componen...

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Overview

Goliath Performance Monitor offers proactive, end-to-end IT performance monitoring for Citrix & VMware to ensure a positive end user experience. Goliath Performance Monitor provides complete support for monitoring virtual server, virtual desktop and hybrid cloud environments, and provides specialized modules for certain EMR/EHR applications and NVIDIA GRID vGPU. Goliath Performance Monitor has been architected from the ground up to help IT administrators anticipate end user experience issues, troubleshoot the root cause, and deploy remediation actions quickly before end users complain.

Goliath Technologies

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

Walmart, Facebook, Xerox, UHS, ADP, Wyndham Worldwide

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

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