CloudHealth by VMware was built for business intelligence, but it is complex, and lacks the deep Kubernetes support or any of the advanced automated cloud cost savings features found in Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Governance Management.

Features	Digiusher	CloudHealth by VmWare (Broadcom)
Solution
Deployment Option	SaaS, Dedicated Managed Hosting & Self-Hosting	SaaS
Multi-Cloud Support	AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba (OCI – Coming Soon!)	AWS, Azure
On-Prem Cost Monitoring	Kubernetes Only	YES
Pricing Model	Fixed Annual Subscription Fees	Percentage Cloud Spend
Enterprise Pricing Model with Unlimited Spend, Accounts, Users, Subscriptions	Enterprise Annual Subscription Available	NOT AVAILABLE
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback	YES	YES
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing	YES	YES
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)	YES	NO
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations	YES	NO
Databricks Cost Visibility	YES	NO
Snowflakes Cost Visibility	Coming Soon!	NO
Import 3rd Party Costs	Coming Soon!	NO
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards	YES	YES
Custom BI Dashboards	YES	Partial
Forecasting	YES	YES
Cloud Inventory	YES	YES
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection	YES	Partial (No Kubernetes Support)
Spot Orchestration	YES (through Partner)	NO
Idle Resource Management	YES	Manual Scheduling
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances	YES (through Partner)	NO
AWS Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
Azure Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
GCP Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations	YES	YES
Governance
Budgets	YES	YES
Alerts	YES	YES
Reporting	YES	YES
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support	YES	YES
Role-based Access Control	YES	YES
Full Audit Trails	YES	NO
Training	YES	YES
Documentation	YES	YES
Support Available	8X5 through Email and Support Website	24X7 Available
MSP-Specific
Single Dashboard to manage multiple clients	YES	YES
Billing Engine	Coming Soon!	YES

Summary: 

CloudHealth by VMware (now Broadcom) provides a great set of visibility, savings, and forecast tools for cloud providers, provided that you can dedicate the staff required to manage the complex reporting required. While they may have been one of the early innovators in cloud cost management, they’ve stagnated in new feature development since their acquisition by VMware (and have stagnated further with Broadcom acquisition) with continuous grieving by customers and partners equally. The tool is difficult to implement, and engineering teams simply won’t use it.

If you are looking for a tool that your engineers will actually use, that gives deep insights into all your multi-cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, and provides innovative, automated features that create new cloud cost savings opportunities, then Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Governance and Management is the clear winner. Digiusher gives your FinOps teams the tools they need to accelerate cost savings, and maintain the most optimized cloud spend over time.

Cost Reporting: 

Understanding cloud costs is the first fundamental for gaining control of your cloud spend. Without accurate and timely reporting, as well as continuous cost monitoring, your cloud costs can quickly spiral out of control.

For those with a PhD in analytics and reporting, CloudHealth by VMware is an amazing tool that provides a wealth of information on cloud costs. For the rest of their users, it is a very difficult tool to learn and understand, requiring extensive training to be able to create usable reports based on custom queries. This has led their customers to designate one or two people in finance to create and maintain weekly/monthly cost reports. Otherwise, no one else in the organization is using the tool, including the engineers tasked with chasing down cloud cost anomalies and implementing recommendations. “We just weren’t using it” is the most common reason customers are moving away from CloudHealth by VMware.

Digiusher gives you easy to use, easy to understand reports and dashboards out of the box, with an intuitive interface that you can easily customize to suit the needs of your organization. FinOps, DevOps and Engineering teams can get real time visibility into cloud costs, budget status and cost anomaly alerts to keep them on top of their cloud spend. 

Kubernetes Support: 

The cloud-native computing world is built on Kubernetes, so having deep insights into your Kubernetes costs and how to optimize those costs is essential. CloudHealth by VMware does have basic cost reporting for Kubernetes workloads, but they do not provide analysis to help customers break out their utilized, idle, and unallocated costs within Kubernetes clusters. Nor do they provide recommendations for right-sizing Kubernetes resources in any way, leaving customers stranded when it comes to optimizing their Kubernetes infrastructure.

Digiusher provides detailed cost analysis for Kubernetes clusters, at a very granular level that can be tailored for your business. Our Kubernetes cost recommendations can help you right-size your node pools as well as the underlying infrastructure, making your clusters as efficient as possible. We also deliver automated cluster cost management features such as Cluster Orchestrator for EKS that can save our customers up to 90% on cloud costs. 

Automated Cloud Cost Optimization: 

‍Getting engineers to take action on cloud cost recommendations shouldn’t be your only path to cloud cost savings. Automation can unlock cost savings opportunities that simply can’t be realized with manual or scripted efforts. Digiusher has a multitude of automation tools that save our customers money, from idle cloud resource management to spot instance orchestration (through partner), and more, that saves our customers up to 90% on cloud costs. CloudHealth has fallen behind the competition for automated cost savings. While they do have rudimentary policies for purchasing commitments, it falls short of many customers needs. Other than that, CloudHealth by VMware has no automated cost savings features available for their customers.

Network Cost Visibility

CloudHealth does not provide any true visibility into data transfer costs in an interactive manner, thereby, making it a very hard for engineers to unlock architecture and design bottlenecks.

With Digiusher, its a cakewalk with built-in dashboards and navigation edited to unlock the data transfer costs.

Enterprise Offering:

Large enterprises, Regulated industries and public sector firms needs to have a secure offering that could run within their own environment under their control. Therefore, Digiusher offers a self-hosted unlimited Enterprise offering in its pricing model making it highly beneficial and apt for such customers. For details visit our pricing page.

CloudHealth offers only SaaS with charging as a % of the expenditure aka. cloud tax.