Visual One Intelligence vs. APMs

APM tools are great at what they’re designed to do. But they can’t replace strong, AI-driven hybrid infrastructure tools like Visual One Intelligence that protect performance and prioritize health & cost optimization in storage, cloud, and compute environments.

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The Problem with APMs

Highly Complex

Getting full APM value often requires specialized developers or administrators, with important functions presenting a learning curve.

Resource-Intensive

APMs tend to consume a lot of memory, CPU, and disk space, counteracting attempts to make infrastructure sleaker and more efficient.

Too Expensive

APM costs can spiral quickly, with complicated licensing that is often based on data ingestion instead of raw storage.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Visual One Intelligence’s hybrid infrastructure management (IM) is…

Essential

Whereas APM tools typically only scratch the surface of infrastructure resources, focusing instead on other layers of IT like applications and networks, IM tools zero in on hybrid infrastructure performance and cost management.

Integrative

APM and IM tools work together with – but cannot replace – each other. For example, APM tools provide insights into application performance but cannot identify and prevent the root causes of infrastructure performance problems (like IM tools do).

Affordable

Visual One customers who have also used APM tools estimate they would need three fulltime employees on an APM to accomplish what Visual One Intelligence can do for them.

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Side-by-Side Comparison of Visual One Intelligence vs. APMs

	Visual One Intelligence	APMs
Primary Functions	– Infrastructure Monitoring & Analysis – Infrastructure Asset Optimization – Infrastructure Capacity Planning – Infrastructure FinOps	– Application Performance Monitoring (APM) – Log Management – Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
Primary Users	– Cloud & VMware Architects – Storage Administrators – Infrastructure Engineers – IT Operations	– Cybersecurity Teams – Site Reliability Engineers – Application Developers – Cloud & Platform Ops
Areas of Focus	Granular Infrastructure Resources: – Cloud / Containers – VMs / Clusters / vCenters – Devices / Hosts / Volumes / LUNs – Switches / Files / Backup	– Applications – Networks – Servers – Logs – Infrastructure
Sample Outcomes	– Prevent infrastructure performance problems. – Improve capacity planning. – Reduce downtime.	– Resolve application performance problems – Improve user experience – Ensure applications meet SLAs
Who Does What?	– Vendor builds out-of-the-box reporting. – Vendor AI performs root-cause analysis. – Vendor AI correlates data, identifying risks & ROI optimization opportunities. – Vendor technical advisor provides one-on-one support.	– Customer builds most reporting. – Customer performs root-cause analysis. – Customer interprets data to identify risks & ROI optimization opportunities. – Customer finds support fromcommunity of other users.