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We performed a comparison between Alluvio AppResponse and Alluvio Aternity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Alluvio AppResponse vs. Alluvio Aternity Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"I have found the AppResponse, which is a packet capture solution, very good. It gives you the ability to drill down back in time. You've got all the packets there. You can troubleshoot it later, not immediately. It's very interesting.""Ability to see end to end user, application, server, and network response time and throughput data.""The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance.""AppResponse is a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility into applications at all levels, from Layer 1 to Layer 7. We can trace all those sections: physical, IP, transport, presentation, application, etc. It gives us the full picture.""It provides us with complete visibility of every packet.""We really like the scalability capabilities.""The most valuable feature is performance monitoring.""When it comes to the ability to scale up the product, this is suitable for small medium and large environments,"

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"The dashboard is very effective.""The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level""The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us.""While it also provides desktop metrics, the main thing we use it for is monitoring our applications.""The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes.""The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it.""The application response time. That's what our business has been having a problem with.""All of it, but it depends on who the end user is. The folks that support the applications, like the signatures that we've developed, it gives them feedback on their application performance."

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Cons
"Integration between NPM and APM solutions would improve efficiency. There is no agent on the server site related to AppResponse.""The AI features should be addressed in respect of the analysis and intelligence that must be supported and delivered in the tool to predigest the large amounts of data.""Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems.""The initial setup is straightforward, but you have to know a little about the product. It's not for everybody to just plug and play. If you know how the solution is implemented then it is straightforward.""Need to bring back the NetFlow module for AppResponse.""They need to better integrate with products and solutions from different vendors.""If Alluvio AppResponse reduces its cost, it will be more beneficial for customers to monitor their application and network performance.""Technical support needs to be more responsive."

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"It all comes in pretty nice looking charts and things, but we have a hard time pulling out hard data, which is usually what you'll need if you're trying to be actionable.""For me, the biggest problem is the price. It is not so much about how much it costs. It is about Aternity only giving you 12 months upfront. So, you got to purchase it for 12 months. A lot of our customers are on a per-user-per-month type billing. They are all OPEX rather than CAPEX. It would be a lot better for our customers if there was an option available for OPEX so that it is billed on a monthly basis than a yearly basis. They've got only Windows agents. They don't actually have mobile agents. It would be a lot better if they could also integrate Android and iOS because then we can start pulling steps and performance management out of users' mobile devices. That's the biggest addition I would suggest at the moment. A lot of our customers have desktops as well as tablets or mobile devices. We should be able to monitor that stuff as well.""I can see the location and computer model and I can see a bunch of different attributes. But one thing I can't see is the Internet Explorer version.""I think the workflow needs improvement""Reliability: Issues interfering with the deployment and use of the product has made its use reduced in scope.""Its user interface and features should be improved. They don't support new versions of certain Linux editions. That is one of the reasons why we have to move to another solution.""I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia.""I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing model is expensive compared to its competitors, but the service it gives to your business, and the data quality, means that it's worth it."
  • "The price is a little bit high, especially because we have to pay an import tax."
  • "The solution is no more expensive than other products."
  • "It is costly for small and medium businesses."
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  • "Our management squeezed Aternity pretty hard on the pricing, in my opinion a little too much. I advise negotiating for sure, but I do think it left kind of a sour taste in Aternity’s mouth that we were being so pushy despite the fact that we were only purchasing a small number of licenses."
  • "It’s a little on the costly side, but if you license intelligently, accounting for your various hosts connecting in through VDI or terminal servers, you can make it well worth your money."
  • "If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."
  • "Pricing is a bit high. Don't take that as the "be all, end all"."
  • "In my opinion they are asking a lot for their SaaS solution, but I also know that that's the direction they're going... The current, on-prem solution is probably a fair price."
  • "The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."
  • "Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."
  • "The pricing is fair."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance.
    Top Answer:AppResponse is a little expensive, but the cost depends on your configuration and storage. It was about $200,000 for three years.
    Top Answer:Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems. Alluvio AppResponse should include the ability to monitor Linux servers.
    Top Answer:Hi Avi! It's great to see your thorough approach to selecting an APM package for your MSP company. Considering your focus on SMBs and enterprises in Israel, Dynatrace seems like a solid choice with… more »
    Top Answer:The dashboard is very effective.
    Top Answer:The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry.
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    Also Known As
    Riverbed AppResponse, OPNET SteelCentral AppResponse, ACE Live, OPNET, AppResponse Xpert
    Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity
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    Overview

    Alluvio AppResponse provides fast packet capture and storage that feeds intelligent network and application analysis with fast troubleshooting workflows to speed problem diagnosis and resolution. AppResponse delivers full stack application analysis—from packets to web pages - enabling you observe all network and application interactions as they cross the wire, whether they are encrypted or not. Using powerful, flexible network and application analytics and workflows, AppResponse speeds problem diagnosis and resolution, helping you get to answers fast

    Alluvio Aternity full-spectrum Digital Experience Management provides insight into the business impact of customer and employee digital experience by capturing and storing technical telemetry at scale from employee devices, every type of business application, and your cloud-native application service.

    It also helps you resolve issues quickly by showing you response time breakdown between client device, network, and application back ends. Aternity provides AI-powered visibility into the end user experience of every cloud, SaaS, thick client, or enterprise mobile app, whether it runs on a virtual, physical, or mobile device.

    Aternity Features

    Aternity has many valuable features, including:

    • Automatic discovery of every application in your enterprise portfolio, including SaaS and Shadow IT apps.
    • Click to render - measuring users' interactions with applications in the context of a business process.
    • Change validation - validating the impact of any type of device, application, or infrastructure change on end user experience.
    • Self-healing - automated remediation actions to recover from the most commonly expected user experience issues.
    • Anomaly detection - proactive notification of end-user issues
    • Transaction tracing of distributed applications - including cloud-native apps, via OpenTelemetry
    • Application troubleshooting - identify the cause of application issues

    Aternity Benefits

    Some of the biggest advantages the Aternity offers include:

    • Resolve problems quickly: With Aternity, you can monitor client-side latency, analyze the health and key metrics of the end user’s device, and correlate app performance to the virtual systems they are running on.
    • Reduce virtualization sprawl: Aternity helps you eliminate under-utilized resources with its ability to correlate the inventory of virtual desktop infrastructure to actual usage.
    • Experience level agreement (XLA): Aternity’s XLA feature can help your organization prove quality of service. Specifically, the XLA validates that business activity performance across all applications meets expectations by geography, department, and data center.
    • Mitigate IT transformation risk: Aternity helps you achieve success of both strategic and tactical IT initiatives.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Aternity users.

    PeerSpot user Ryan P., Head of Cyber Security Engineering & Oversight at a media company, says, "The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it."

    An Endpoint Administration Manager at a financial services firm mentions, “It gives you the ability to filter the comparison by geography, industry, or company size.” He also adds, “We have absolutely seen ROI. It's really given us a very high level of visibility that we've just not ever had.”

    A Regional Network Manager at a recruiting/HR firm comments, "Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application."

    A Sr. IT Manager at a manufacturing company states, "The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."

    Sample Customers
    N11.com, OneMain Financial, China Bank, Halkbank, Kaust
    Maersk, SwissRe, Travis Perkins, Michelin, National Instruments, Simmons & Simmons, Lighthouse Guild
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Transportation Company13%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Financial Services Firm37%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Legal Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Government10%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business3%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise86%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise75%
    Buyer's Guide
    Alluvio AppResponse vs. Alluvio Aternity
    May 2024
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    Alluvio AppResponse is ranked 38th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 15 reviews while Alluvio Aternity is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews. Alluvio AppResponse is rated 8.8, while Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alluvio AppResponse writes "It's a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility at all levels". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". Alluvio AppResponse is most compared with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, ThousandEyes, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Dynatrace and AppDynamics, whereas Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Azure Monitor. See our Alluvio AppResponse vs. Alluvio Aternity report.

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