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Alluvio Aternity vs AppNeta by Broadcom comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (34th), Mobile APM (4th)
AppNeta by Broadcom
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (68th), Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), DX NetOps (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 5.0%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AppNeta by Broadcom is 3.2%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Alluvio Aternity5.0%
AppNeta by Broadcom3.2%
Other91.8%
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2668014 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Predictive analysis has improved IT performance evaluation and problem management
I am a senior program manager and consultant who has worked with numerous companies. I downloaded the report for personal knowledge and was comparing tech solutions, like Aternity and Alluvio Aternity. My work involves consulting organizations and enhancing my knowledge on product technology…
Out West - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager and IT Management Consultant at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
Provides great visibility, offers quantifiable data, and helps with testing latency tolerance
When you look in the layer 7 environment, you actually can see the code operating against the two parties. It could be a client server, a web server, or a database server. It could be a database server and another database server. You can look at whatever those application components are and you see how they're interoperating. If for some reason, there's a runaway command or something that's inefficient, you can see the command that's being executed and the players that it's operating against. I did that with the infrastructure team and the application development team, and we could very quickly remedy problems with the application that the organization was facing for an extended period of time, even before my project was initiated. I've recently looked at their current offering and see that they can investigate Layer 7 network to see what commands are being written and passed or returned. That's quite useful. It will help identify latency and if it is related to the traffic or the code itself. That, in turn, helps people debug more quickly. We can rectify issues in days as opposed to months. I like that we have quantifiable data in order to get true measures. The solution provides more visibility into the monitoring of traffic. It helps address blind spots. It develops an intelligent fabric that gives you a more realistic view of the true traffic within the environment. When it comes to the visibility into the infrastructure, it is imperative that the people applying these probes understand the reference architecture and understand their segmentation model. Sometimes if an organization has a compliance responsibility, then normally, the segmentation models are somewhat defined. If, for some reason, the organization is open and there aren't too many like that anymore, then there are no problems. You start to segment the incident and try to understand the relationship between these different assets and the environment, it might block traffic and you might not be able to see it. When you're dealing with Cisco fabric, if for some reason you have a host hanging off a distribution switch and another host hanging off a distribution switch based on the Cisco fabric, that traffic may never hit the core switch. Sometimes people analyze NetFlow off the core, but if something is operating through a distribution switch, you will never see that traffic when you're dealing with a Cisco fabric. I define that as a layer 2 blind spot. In order for you to rectify that, you have to have probes in environments that travel through the course switch to see the full amount of traffic. Once you set up the fabric, that becomes one large network to your network environment, and they're not traffic tracking anything within it until it hits a port somewhere. Alerting is becoming more critical over time. I've been in this business for a long time. Twenty years ago we'd be in a data center and we'd have a perimeter network and we'd be done. The bottom line would be very difficult for someone to come in and compromise my environment. Then we extended our environments from on-premise into co-location. Now we actually have traffic that goes over a wide area network. As such, our security profile changes over time. At first, we would normally do it through all layer 2 relationships or VPN-type environments, but now we're doing it over the internet. The instant we poke a hole through your internet, even though we have a tunnel within it, we're exposed to a higher-threat environment. Now that we're in the cloud, we're going through a higher-threat environment. Around two years ago there was an exploit that focused on the chip. So even if I'm using a cloud provider, I'm leveraging their hypervisor, and I have my own tenancy, at the end of the day everything runs through a processor. So when that processor exploit came through, around four years ago, that problem's wide open. At the end of the day, now more than ever, monitoring is important. Somebody noticed a spike in traffic, somebody compromised the environment. It was a ransomware attack. Because of that leading indicator plus the consideration of the compute environment as well, they could shut down the attack but if they didn't have that capability, they would've been taken advantage of. Based on the ability to look for those leading indicators that can be fed back or introduced into your SIEM environment to make sure that you're responding to any threats that may occur, which are more prevalent now than ever before. The user interface they have right now is very powerful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month."
"The application response time. That's what our business has been having a problem with."
"The detailed level of information you are able to get on the complete environment all of the way down to a specific machine."
"We've looked at the Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) to see how our digital experience compares to others who use the solution. We have used that to see how we are trending and it gives us some insight into areas that we might need to focus more on. That's helpful."
"The dashboard is very effective."
"The data the solution provides is valuable to us; we can see the health of the machines, how they are performing, and what might be causing issues on a particular machine."
"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."
"Other features we use heavily are the WiFi analyzer, the Skype for Business analyzer, and the troubleshooting functionalities. We also use the Device Health quite religiously here for troubleshooting devices that are unhealthy, when we're talking about things like high CPU or memory consumption, or file system problems within the users' workstations."
"The solution's technical support is very good."
"A lot of times one of the AppNeta transactions showed that there is an issue, whereas everything seemed to be working properly. Once we dug into it, we realized that it really was highlighting a problem that otherwise we would not have seen."
"Delivery and experience are valuable. The usage in terms of the traffic application captures and other similar things is also valuable."
"The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues."
"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."
"This solution helps prove that, if we move to cloud, we'll still be as effective as we are on-premises."
"We get complete, hop-by-hop visibility into the internet and we can know how much latency is taking place from one hop to another. That way, we know whether a particular hop belongs to the ISP, or that it is something owned by our own client's office, or is something to do with the SaaS network."
 

Cons

"Their technical support should be improved in terms of response time. Its stability should also be better. We are currently using version 10, and its stability is not so high. The server crashes from time to time and needs to be restarted. Sometimes, you also have problems with applications."
"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."
"The only thing I can say which has been frustrating are the Tableau workspace/dashboard options out-of-the-box, at least prior to version 8."
"Right now, the user information being displayed by Aternity is received from AD. Ideally, we would like to see integration with other sources for user information, like other databases, so we are not limited to AD."
"When it comes to what is called creating signatures, it's not easy for a non-coding person for desktop applications. You need to run the recording and you need to have some exposure and knowledge. That is an area where they can improve. For web applications, they have the Web Activity Creator and that's an awesome and easy tool. Anybody can use it and capture the signatures. With the desktop applications it's a little more cumbersome and difficult."
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"I think the workflow needs improvement"
"They've additionally added some great color coding, but they need to explain better and drive down further on the meanings of this workflow."
"I would like to see some advanced dashboard features. It could also be integrated with third-party tools. For example, an integration with a reporting solution would be helpful. Out-of-the-box, there are few dashboards or reports. What it does have is useful, but there should be additional dashboards."
"AppNeta by Broadcom needs to add more features to its dashboards. It also needs to work on providing out-of-the-box reports."
"Instead of integrating with other people, they should expand their interior capabilities."
"Having to deal with configuring the end devices using a USB stick is a bit cumbersome. It would be nice if there was a better way of handling that."
"They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes."
"I think some of the product's documentation has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Cloud monitoring could be better. That's one of the biggest pain points for me. I have shared this feedback with them multiple times, but they're limited to some extent. That's one area where I've seen a problem."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Its licensing cost is very low. That's one of the reasons why we have kept it for so long. We get more than a 70% discount on the maintenance licenses. Its cost is very low for us, but if you buy it new, it would be much more expensive at the retail price."
"The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry."
"The price for Alluvio Aternity is favorable."
"Pricing is a bit high. Don't take that as the "be all, end all"."
"The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."
"You have to purchase it for 12 months, which is an issue because a lot of our customers are on a per-user-per-month type billing. There are a few additional costs. A lot of customers only get the essential licenses, and then they get what they call the application add-ons on top. They have to pay depending on how many customers and applications they want to monitor."
"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."
"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."
"It's worth the money."
"We typically don't get involved in the commercial side, but the list price is probably something like $3,000 for a small probe. However, that gives all of the features that the probe can do, whether or not you use them. In the old days, up until two or three years ago, each of the separate features was a separately licensable module so that you could add things that you wanted, and you didn't have to add things that you didn't want. They've changed all that now, and everything the probe can do is a part of the base license."
"I find the solution's price to be fairly good."
"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."
"The small probe is probably around $3,000 and the very large probe that they make for massive data centers might be $50,000 or $60,000. It's a subscription model, so the payment is per year."
"I inherited this from a different version, and I haven't yet gone through a renewal because we had purchased three years upfront. So, to me, that still remains to be seen. Once it comes up for renewal, we'll see what happens. Especially because now it is Broadcom, it is going to change anyway."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Insurance Company
7%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aternity?
Riverbed is costly in the Indian market; I would rate the pricing for Alluvio Aternity as a higher price.
What needs improvement with Aternity?
In my opinion, Riverbed can make Alluvio Aternity better by having the same Aternity agent help in security, such as antivirus or EDR, which would be useful, allowing customers to avoid having mult...
What open source tool can one use to measure bandwidth from one's upstream service provider?
One I am looking closely at is AppNeta. They have an appliance that can digest the flow and do a better job than Netflow. The other one we are using is ExtraHop. This has both a Datacenter Hig...
 

Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity
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Sample Customers

Maersk, SwissRe, Travis Perkins, Michelin, National Instruments, Simmons & Simmons, Lighthouse Guild
Ebay, Citrix, National Instruments, Marriott, AT&T, Bon-Ton, McDonald's, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, QAD
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