#1 most frequent
United States of America
69.6%16 installations of 23
What is NetApp Cloud Insights?
NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives
users visibility into their complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, users can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all resources including
public clouds and private data centers.
Categories & Use Cases
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Who Buys & Uses NetApp Cloud Insights
#2 most frequent
Japan
8.7%2 installations of 23
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8.7%2 installations of 23
Cloud Insights for clouds near and far.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use NetApp Cloud Insights to help us map out our infrastructure by mapping resources to applications. It helps us rapidly narrow in on problems and pinpoints the technology causing the issue. CI helps prevent finger-pointing between departments during war room sessions. We also use it to find anomalies before they turn into problems. We have used it to eliminate waste in our environment by locating wasted resources in systems that are no longer in service.
Pros
- Collecting data from a large number of devices without requiring an agent.
- Connecting various devices together through queries and dashboards.
- Providing new ways to look at your system as a whole.
- Reports are very complex.
- Extremely helpful and supportive professional resources
Cons
- Reports are very complex.
- There are ways that the application feature landing page could be designed to be more useful.
Return on Investment
- Saved hours of downtime and resource allication.
- Prevented outages.
- Pinpointed failing sfps.
Usability
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Pros
- Identification of resource wastes for better optimization of IT operations.
- Easy portal view and anyone can easily understand application performance and issues without any special technical knowledge.
- Real-time alerts of issues and resource waste.
- Customizable integrations as per need of the organization.
Cons
- Need to add more cloud resources for optimization, as many are still not compatible
- Data retention time is limited.
- Premium subscription is costly.
Return on Investment
- Highly positiveROI in terms of resource optimization and cost cutting on IT services.
- Efficiently identify areas of wastes and make IT operations cost effective.
Other Software Used
Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller, Google Cloud AI, Azure Application Gateway
Provides Clear Visibility On Your Network & Great Cost Reduction Tool
Pros
- Real Time Monitoring To Prevent Cyber Attacks
- Resource Utilization Monitoring
- Quick Inventory Count
Cons
- Reports Can Be Improved
- Pricing Model Can Be Better
- Issue with data collection from 3rd party tools
Return on Investment
- Security Posture Improvement
- Helped Us To Find Unidentified Storage
- Optimization Reduced Cloud Usage Cost
Alternatives Considered
VMware Tanzu Observability, by Wavefront, Dynatrace and LogicMonitor
Other Software Used
Dynatrace, VMware Tanzu Greenplum (Pivotal Greenplum), Datadog
Quick troubleshooting tool!
Pros
- Visibility
- Usage Optimization
- Alerts
Cons
- Managing reports is a little clumsy
Return on Investment
- Diagnosing problems fast
Alternatives Considered
Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework)
Other Software Used
AWS Storage Gateway
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Pros
- The visibility and usage optimization are the most valuable features.
- Ease to use for basic functionality.
- It is good for giving an overview of the systems and for tracking long-term trends. It is handy for root cause analysis.
Cons
- The reports, use of Cognos requires new proficiencies.
- Their pricing model needs improvement.
Return on Investment
- Monitoring servers and applications in Cloud for having a awesome SLA performance.
- Troubleshooting and reporting capabilities help reduce the time we need to prep for weekly updates
- With a broader scope approach we were able to implement many more instances than expected
Alternatives Considered
Dynatrace, Datadog and Sumo Logic
