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Observium vs. VMware Skyline

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Observium
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
VMware Skyline
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
VMware Skyline is a suite of products that provide proactive findings and recommendations for vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vRealize Operations and Horizon that aim to provide proactive intelligence that helps users avoid problems before they occur and reduces the time spent on resolving active support requests.N/A
Pricing
ObserviumVMware Skyline
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ObserviumVMware Skyline
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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ObserviumVMware Skyline
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User Ratings
ObserviumVMware Skyline
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ObserviumVMware Skyline
Likelihood to Recommend
Observium
  • If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).
  • If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.
  • If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.
  • If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.
Derek Dolan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Derek Dolan
Senior System Administrator
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VMware by Broadcom
VMware Skyline is free yet is priceless. Skyline gives you the health of your VMware products in a single pane. Here you not only get issues pointed out to you but the suggested solutions for each issue. Doesn't get better than this.
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Anonymous
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Pros
Observium
  • Automatic device discovery.
  • Scalability
  • Real-time monitoring.
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Anonymous
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Easy setup
  • Stable
  • Data collection
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Cons
Observium
  • Documentation
  • Community support
  • Easy to set up but hard to customise fully
Verified User
Anonymous
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Sometimes the recommendations do not make sense.
  • Sometimes the advice is general, but not for us.
CH
Chris Hein
Systems Engineer
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Usability
Observium
No answers on this topic
VMware by Broadcom
It's super easy to use.
CH
Chris Hein
Systems Engineer
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Support Rating
Observium
It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.
Derek Dolan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Derek Dolan
Senior System Administrator
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VMware by Broadcom
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Alternatives Considered
Observium
I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.
Verified User
Anonymous
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VMware by Broadcom
I've used other products such as VMAN and such yet Skyline is different. This is not aimed at your virtual machine's internal usage but at the VMware / Hypervisor level. This looks and monitors at hardware drivers, VMtools versions, and VM hardware versions. If you have Horizon it will look at versions and current vs minimum driver versions.
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Return on Investment
Observium
  • It is good for DC admin.
  • Only positive impact.
  • Highly recommended.
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Anonymous
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Weekly reports helps gain long term statistics
  • service requests can be easily resolved
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Anonymous
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