Item: vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Mohanish Khatkhede

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Vmware vRealize log to manage, analyze, monitor, and administer system logs. It helps us in the monitoring of application logs, network traces, configure files, messages, and performance data and can be monitored on the UI.

Pros and Cons

It is used for log collection and analysis the virtual applications. Admins collect, view, manage and analyze system logs.
It provides real-time monitoring of application logs, network traces, config files, notification alerts, etc.
Provide the ability to manage infra, which helps in identifying and troubleshooting virtual applications.
The new features like proxy less event forwarding to vRealize log insight cloud are quite useful.

If we can integrate it with other products, then it will be quite useful. Integration with some network devices and storage devices would be useful.
It basically supports the system with big-size VM disks; it should be made available to support other devices and hardware as well.
They may also need to improve on complex configuration.

Return on Investment

It is quite useful application to monitor system logs.
It provides real-time monitoring of application logs, network traces, config files, and event messages.
It has a useful UI and customizable dashboard.

Key Insights

Do you think vRealize Operations (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with vRealize Operations (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did vRealize Operations (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of vRealize Operations (discontinued) go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy vRealize Operations (discontinued) again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

With the introduction of API-based event alerts, there is no need for a proxy, which is a good option. Its ability to manage infra on a real-time basis is a good option that helps monitor, administer and troubleshoot virtual machines.

Support Rating

It is a good tool to monitor cloud applications and application logs. It provides a good UI to support collecting, monitoring, analysing logs.

Usability

It has a good GUI to monitor real-time logs for cloud applications. This is quite a useful tool and preferred over most of the competitive applications in the market.

Contract Terms and Pricing Model

Not involved in purchasing.

A tool to have for real time monitoring and analysing system logs and network traces.

Overall Satisfaction with VMware Aria Operations for Logs