Netscout nGeniusONE vs. Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse
Netscout nGeniusONE is ranked 21st in Network Monitoring Software with 3 reviews vs Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse which is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. The top reviewer of Netscout nGeniusONE writes "Better view of communications path between servers reduces troubleshooting time, but GUI needs improvement". The top reviewer of Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse writes "The application response time is user-friendly". Netscout nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon, Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse and SolarWinds NPM. Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Netscout nGeniusONE and Dynatrace.
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The biggest benefit is the ability to do low-level packet inspection. When I say packet inspection, I don't mean looking at payload, but just looking at your communication handshakes and the like. It reduces troubleshooting time because you can get a much better view into the communications path between servers, database servers, web servers, and understand what's going on. We are using nGeniusONE to run our bandwidth capacity management reports. In the past, we used to be very reactive, we used to depend a lot on suppliers to tell us which sites are our hot sites, meaning, which have high bandwidth utilization. Now we do this in a much more proactive way and we are moving to a more predictive approach in that aspect, thanks to nGeniusONE. The ability to be able to do detailed traffic analysis such as top-talkers, application-specific monitoring, and understanding them through patterns, is helpful. We're also able to gain an understanding of voice calls, voice traffic, whether we have packet loss in a certain part of the network or jitter or high latency that might be impacting the network. All of those are nice functionalities. | With some APM solutions, it can take a long time to check a periodic report, but you can get all the necessary details quickly with AppResponse. | |
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The GUI has gotten better over time but there could be some improvement in how the GUI is built. It's not intuitive, it's not simple to use. It is probably the only monitoring tool, out of all the ones that I have, that I really need an expert on, an expert from nGenius, a contractor that I have to pay, to manage the tool. And that's because it's simply not easy to use. Netscout needs to focus on making it easier to use. There are so many features that it makes it hard to know it all. You end up paying for things that you don't use and probably don't even need. It might be better if Netscout came up with a modular way to pay for what you're going to use and not pay for all of this "white elephant" without being able to take advantage of all of it. This is a typical thing, but every time they do a major code upgrade, we get hit with some nasty bugs. Some of them literally stop the whole platform from collecting traffic data. They should really do more Q&A on the software stability before release. | They need to better integrate with products and solutions from different vendors. | |
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Like any company, we always want better pricing. The pricing is okay, but it's not a cheap solution. When you want to deploy it across an enterprise as large as ours, you go into seven figures. It's not a cheap solution to get out there. If you are able and you are willing to use everything that Netscout provides to you, it's probably a relatively fair price. The problem is that it's such a large and such a complex tool that I'm not sure that many companies would be able to use it entirely, the way it's expected to be used. | 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. | Information Not Available |
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| Netscout nGenius, nGeniusONE | OPNET SteelCentral AppResponse, ACE Live, OPNET, AppResponse Xpert | |
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| The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network. | AppResponse Xpert is a unique application performance management, monitoring and troubleshooting solution that approaches performance from the end-user's perspective. The solution is a Riverbed OPNET product, and gives a proactive, in-depth analytical view of any application performance issues, whether web-based or non-web based. AppResponse Xpert is flexible, customizable and fully automated, enabling network users to focus on the bigger IT picture, giving business users maximum productivity, and providing end-users with an optimal application experience. | Information Not Available |
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| Cerner Corporation | Gartner, Swiss Post, WestLB, Turner, Samlink, RGIS, NetJets, SITA, Mobistar, Lehigh Valley Health Network, and Trafigura. | Information Not Available |
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