NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights
LeaderMaking your data infrastructure more seamless, more dynamic, and higher performing than ever before.
Est 1992|Valuation $43.6B|Raised $6.6B
Making your data infrastructure more seamless, more dynamic, and higher performing than ever before.
Published Oct 15, 2026
NetApp’s release notes document ongoing additions (e.g., new collector support, StorageGRID monitoring, AU OS support, VM Analyzer enhancements). Buyers should review current release notes for capabilities relevant to their infrastructure mix.
NetApp distributes analyst and partner collateral (e.g., ESG showcase materials) that provide context on positioning; these materials support understanding of vendor claims but are not independent audits.
Common industries where DII is cited include:
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Download full report →Primary need is full-stack APM for custom applications (deep tracing, code-level diagnostics, continuous profiling): Dynatrace, Datadog, or New Relic often provide stronger developer-centric capabilities.
Need simple, business-friendly chargeback reports quickly with minimal specialized skills: DII reporting has been reported as complex; consider vendors with simpler reporting UX or plan to budget for enablement services.
Small, homogeneous environments: The setup overhead and subscription minimums (especially for Reporting) may not justify the cost.
Requirement for publicly documented compliance attestations (SOC 2 Type II/ISO 27001 for the specific SaaS offering) without executing NDAs or engaging vendor security teams: DII public pages in this run did not clearly enumerate these; prefer vendors with prominent trust portals if this is a strict requirement.
Policy requires self-hosted-only deployment: DII is SaaS-oriented; consider vendors that offer on-prem-only deployment models.
Reviewer excerpts summarized to preserve sentiment while avoiding promotional wording:
NetApp’s DII marketing pages present customer outcomes such as reductions in incident tickets, improvements in MTTR, and reclaimed days of operational effort. Methodology and sample sizes are not disclosed on the product pages; treat these as vendor‑provided directional outcomes rather than independently verified metrics.
NetApp publishes named customer quotes (e.g., DreamWorks, World Wide Technology, WTW, Healthix) emphasizing consolidated observability and capacity planning improvements.
A NetApp blog describes a financial institution using DII as a consolidated reference for infrastructure data with reported outcomes including a large monetary efficiency claim and process improvements such as integration with ServiceNow and tagging workflows.
Critical evaluation:
NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) is a SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring and observability platform (formerly NetApp Cloud Insights) focused on hybrid and multicloud infrastructure, with particular depth in storage observability (NetApp ONTAP and broader multi-vendor storage), plus visibility into compute, virtualization (e.g., VMware), Kubernetes, and SAN fabrics. It collects telemetry via data collectors and an Acquisition Unit (AU) deployed in the customer environment, correlates metrics into topology maps, and provides dashboards, alerting, automated insights, and (in higher editions) reporting and chargeback.
NetApp describes DII as providing a consolidated view to map infrastructure-to-workload relationships and to support reductions in mean time to repair (MTTR) by offering real-time insights and automated recommendations.