Nagios Log Server vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs comparison

"One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use. The alert systems are good as well. We had no failovers and had high availability. We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server."

"The product is scalable."

"The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward."

"A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal."

"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."

"The ability to narrow into a specific time to filter heavy hitters and anomalies is extremely valuable."

"The most valuable features are log centralization and long-term retention for logs."

"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."

"I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten."

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

"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."

"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 customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable."

"The support could be better."

"As we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing."

"The configurations during initial setup could be improved. If they could be agentless, as in the case of the Ansible product, it would be better. I would like to be able to analyze the network bandwidth."

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

"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."

"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."

"The monitoring landscape is getting bigger. When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, we need more visibility. VMware needs to integrate more related applications and third-party products. That would make it more appealing to an audience beyond the VMware team."

"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."

"The pricing of the solution could be improved."

"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."

"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap, I rate the pricing an eight or nine."

"We found the pricing to be quite affordable."

"For a single instance, the price is around $4,000."

"The pricing has been updated recently."

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

"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 think it is a reasonably priced product."

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

"It is not cheap. But it is worth it."

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