Accedian Skylight Overview

Accedian Skylight is the #13 ranked solution in our list of APM tools. It is most often compared to Dynatrace: Accedian Skylight vs Dynatrace

What is Accedian Skylight?

Accedian provides performance analytics and end user experience solutions for on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures. Accedian SkylightTM delivers unified network and application performance monitoring (NAPM) visibility across the entire application and network chain, with best in class resolution and velocity. This enables Accedian customers to assure their business-critical digital infrastructure and unlock the full productivity of their users.

Accedian Skylight is also known as Accedian SkyLIGHT PVX, SkyLIGHT PVX, SecurActive, Performance Vision.

Accedian Skylight Buyer's Guide

Download the Accedian Skylight Buyer's Guide including reviews and more. Updated: April 2021

Accedian Skylight Customers

T-Systems, Thomson Reuters, Bordeaux Metropole, CGI, Citadelle Regional Hospital Center, Lorraine Institute of Oncology, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Groupe BPCE, Group S, Splitpoint, Horus-Net, Audatex, Indexis, Province de Liège, EASI, Spie Batignolles, Faymonville

Accedian Skylight Video

Pricing Advice

What users are saying about Accedian Skylight pricing:
  • "The pricing of Accedian Skylight is really good. The sensors are low cost. Their model to analytics for sensors is by license, endpoint, or session. With the probes for their analytics, if they get deployed virtually, they are free. The licensing is only based on flows. So, you can effectively deploy probes everywhere in your network. Then, if you want to look at a specific type of traffic, you can enter into it with a very low cost license. You can just use things like spam ports, mirrors, TAPs, and aggregators to optimize what sort of traffic you send to these analysis tools. Then, if you want to start looking at more, you can up your licensed as you go. You are not getting forced into expensive appliances or subscription models."
  • "It provides value and the cost is not huge."
  • "The pricing is cheaper than other competing products, which is better for our budgets."
  • "We understand there's a significant cost difference, but have yet to investigate fully."

Filter Reviews

Filter by:
Filter Reviews
Industry
Loading...
Filter Unavailable
Company Size
Loading...
Filter Unavailable
Job Level
Loading...
Filter Unavailable
Rating
Loading...
Filter Unavailable
Considered
Loading...
Filter Unavailable
Order by:
Loading...
  • Date
  • Highest Rating
  • Lowest Rating
  • Review Length
Search:
Showingreviews based on the current filters. Reset all filters
Dom Fitzgibbon
Director at PlexNet Pty Ltd
Reseller
Top 5
Nov 22, 2020
Download
Solves network issues quickly, saving engineering time

What is our primary use case?

We are a company who specializes in analytics, both testing and analysis. We get involved in DDI: DNS-DHCP-IPAM. We do a lot of stress testing, protocol testing, and protocol analysis, so we use a number of different tools. We typically try to promote to our clients best of breed type products. At the moment, we have a demo system with the whole suite. That would be VCX and PVX. We are using the Skylight centres to do link testing as well as analytics for multi-office simulations. So, we have set up a demo system within our lab to talk to a couple of home offices as well as look at traffic… more »

Pros and Cons

  • "It is about finding operational problems. When sites go down, we try to determine who is at fault. While there is not much finger-pointing, the solution is just trying to analyse when there is an outage and where do we start looking to fix it. The very nature of why organization chooses to use the solution is to accelerate the meantime to resolution and find where problems lie to get them rectified as quickly as possible."
  • "I would like to see some improvements in parts of their synthetic transactions, which includes all the latency, jitter, and throughput. I would like to see some Layer 7 analytics in there. I want to be able to do a DNS request, HTTP GET request, or even SIP call point-to-point or via registration."

What other advice do I have?

We are a relatively new partner. We certainly haven't explored the full gamut of the suite. There is a lot more work to do, especially with dashboard creation, dashboard optimization, and customization. In terms of the sensors, we're only using that in a very small manner. We are probably 25 to 30 percent along with our journey in that scenario. We do use the solution for performance and traffic monitoring of cloud environment as part of our demo set. We are able to look at cloud apps and cloud environments, more from a monitoring solution. We don't actually have anything virtually in the…
See Entire Accedian Skylight Review (3323 Words) »
GS
reviewer1447356
CTO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Nov 17, 2020
Download
Enables us to find problems with services offered by large telcos and right down to every network component

What is our primary use case?

We had issues for a number of years with our carrier. I had dropped our bonded T1, 3 Mbps, to go to 100 Mbps fibre, minimum, to every location. We have 26 branches. Because of the scale and the magnitude of the capacity, it's fraught with not noticing whether we're getting our subscribed bandwidth, and we're paying a lot of money annually for our MPLS network. When I figured out the players like AT&T, and others in the mix, can have NNI, even though you think you have a 10 Gb connection—my backbone and my data centers are now connected to 10 Gb lines, my backbone is pretty much limitless—I… more »

Pros and Cons

  • "For us, the most valuable feature is something called TWAMP that allows for real-time traffic in a way that is 10 times lighter than things like SolarWinds. It's in the sub-milliseconds of accuracy, and you can divide tasks so that you can literally see things like the tagging for Quality of Service. That had been incorrect with the carrier, but there was no way on this planet you'd be able to tell a carrier that they're wrong. I have dozens of scenarios where we found "No, that's not right," and got it resolved instantly."
  • "Some of the Skylight applications are a little newer, and they're still moving through initial revs. There are certain bugs, but nothing is insurmountable... It will just take a little bit of time for their user interface to get a little bit better."

What other advice do I have?

My team tells me that Skylight's UI and single pane of glass are adequate. We're headed toward using Accedian for performance and traffic monitoring of cloud environments. That Layer 7 application will do the performance from quadrants and sections of our network to the outside world. They have capabilities in places like Azure and third-parties, kind of like Speedtest.net or Fast.com on steroids. We just haven't evolved to that yet. But that's what I expect. If I can get mortgage companies to install devices on their networks, it will be a homerun. They may choose not to do it. I'm able to…
See Entire Accedian Skylight Review (2883 Words) »
Free Report: Accedian Skylight Reviews and More
Learn what your peers think about Accedian Skylight. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2021.
Download now
476,892 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Min Wang
President at AIP US, LLC
Reseller
Top 5
Aug 13, 2020
Download
Very powerful troubleshooting tool that can help me find the root cause of an issue

What is our primary use case?

We are an IT consulting system integration and managed service provider. We provide service to different companies and focus on IT infrastructure, licenses, and security network. We also provide IPs, data center, virtualization, cloud solutions, etc. Our customer had a performance issue. So, I introduced them to enterprise side of the Accedian solution. They have both on-premise and SaaS, but the primary component is deployed on-premise. We gave them two components to the solution: One is called active monitoring and another is called passive monitoring. The active monitoring is part of their… more »

Pros and Cons

  • "This solution has helped to improve the interaction between our network, datacenter, and application teams. I have used other tools, but this tool can pinpoint the root cause of my application or network issue in the majority of the cases. So, it helps different divisions or groups in the IT department to troubleshoot together and get an issue resolved. This tool helps a lot in our day-to-day networking application and IT operations."
  • "For the PVX, they are in the process of getting the results to export to cloud and SaaS for analytics. They told me that this will happen later this year. Right now, for the most part, I create that data myself."

What other advice do I have?

Accedian has a security product as well. The same information and data that we collect for the passive monitoring solution (PVX). They can analyze the same exact data to identify any security threats. We are doing proof of concept with them. There are a lot of security vendors in the market right now, so we have compared their solution with other vendors. We haven't purchased the security side of Accedian yet, but we are looking into it. This tool is definitely worth looking into, no matter which industry you are in, because it generalizes all the problems an IT department has at each company…
See Entire Accedian Skylight Review (2604 Words) »
AB
Anthony BOUCHER
Manager IT Production Service at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jul 12, 2020
Download
Reduced our migration time and downtime

What is our primary use case?

We use Skylight to monitor the performance of our network on different sites. We also use it to troubleshoot if there is an issue on the network/standard and the end user experience is good. Recently, we used Skylight to monitor the amount of external user VPNs. With COVID-19, we have many people who work at home. We used Skylight to count the number of users and monitor the Internet line to see if there was a point of saturation. It is mostly deployed on-premise with some services in the cloud.

Pros and Cons

  • "The solution’s UI and single pane of glass is good. The new dashboard is modern with its new design. The look of it is not pretty, but it is efficient, which is good. It is user-friendly; you can find what you need on the interface quickly."
  • "It needs the possibility to export data because it is not easy to see larger data sets, e.g., for one month. It would be interesting to export data into a PDF or dashboard to keep a history of the situation."

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution as an eight (out of 10). If they add exporting data to PDF, I could made the rating a 10.
See Entire Accedian Skylight Review (704 Words) »
reviewer1188207
User at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 17, 2019
Download
End-to-end performance monitoring improves our troubleshooting capability

What is our primary use case?

We are looking into systems that will provide users with end-to-end application and network performance monitoring in real-time. Media and broadcasting place quite high demands and, consequently, the ability to know exactly what's going on is key to success.

Pros and Cons

  • "The ability to measure performance end-to-end across the cloud data center allows us to take corrective action to keep our channels online."
  • "This solution is expensive compared to some others."

What other advice do I have?

The scale we are dealing with exceeds the capability of most performance management tools, so we're keen on seeing systems that scale to support the millions of people who consume BBC media.
See Entire Accedian Skylight Review (364 Words) »
Read archived reviews (2+ years old)
Buyer's Guide
Download our free Accedian Skylight Report and get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions.
Download Now
Quick Links
Learn More: Questions: