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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)
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (49th), Cloud Monitoring Software (33rd), DX NetOps (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 4.8%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AppNeta by Broadcom is 3.4%, 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 Aternity4.8%
AppNeta by Broadcom3.4%
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

"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"
"There are also built-in activities that let you measure things like preview mail, open address book, and send mail. Those are the activities that we are able to get measurements on, and those are things we have not seen in other software monitoring tools."
"It is a tool that helps me check users' computers really quickly without having a help desk administrator logging in and doing analysis. Anyone who has access to Aternity, including our support team, can log onto Aternity and do a quick, basic analysis."
"The dashboard is very effective."
"As a financial institution, we have a lot of applications that are either written internally or bought from a vendor and customized for us. Having a tool that lets us monitor specific transactions in those applications allows us to focus on the transactions that are important to the business."
"The infrastructure data, especially the CPU and memory data, is per second, which makes it outstanding as compared to other solutions. Its licensing cost is very low for us."
"While it also provides desktop metrics, the main thing we use it for is monitoring our applications."
"Delivery and experience are valuable. The usage in terms of the traffic application captures and other similar things is also valuable."
"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."
"This solution helps prove that, if we move to cloud, we'll still be as effective as we are on-premises."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is very good."
"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."
"The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues."
 

Cons

"In terms of a new feature, it would be good if we could restrict a user to a specific application or server. We have several customers, and we have to set up one or two servers for each customer. We have to set up one server for production and one for the test environment. Each user at the customer level can see all applications and the data of all applications, which is not really useful and good. We should be able to restrict user access at the application level or server level."
"We are waiting for the GA release of their agent. I hope they can do better when they release their endpoint agents. Right now, we are not able to measure some applications, core applications, because it's relying on a specific version of the agent and that agent has not come out yet and there's no ETA. I would like to see them speed up time to market when they release agents."
"Riverbed is costly in the Indian market; I would rate the pricing for Alluvio Aternity as a higher price."
"Integrating the tool with other products is a challenge."
"When it comes to a lot of the features that I would want, they will tell you they are in their SaaS version, which we don't use... They put all the new features on the SaaS solution and that's where you get the latest and greatest stuff... Why not have those features available for on-prem users?"
"I would like to get more granular detail. In regards to defining the applications and activities upfront, that can be challenging. Simplifying that would be a big win. One of the things that I know they are already working on is a verbose mode."
"Reports were a lot easier in the older versions"
"I would say the reporting capabilities of this product could use room for improvement."
"Instead of integrating with other people, they should expand their interior capabilities."
"AppNeta by Broadcom needs to add more features to its dashboards. It also needs to work on providing out-of-the-box reports."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think some of the product's documentation has shortcomings and needs improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We always try to reduce costs and purchase the Alluvio Aternity Essentials license."
"The price for Alluvio Aternity is favorable."
"The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry."
"Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."
"If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."
"The pricing is reasonable for the value that it gives because it does allow you to measure the cost ramifications of direct productivity loss for spends in both your infrastructure and on endpoints."
"It's not a cheap product. There are no two ways about that. If you compare it with a couple of the other solutions operating in the space, it might be on the slightly more expensive side, but it is one of those tools where, once you've got it, you understand the true value. You will get that money back."
"I thought the price for Alluvio Aternity was reasonable, but we had difficulty selling it in our market due to the minimum number of agents required for deployment, which I believe was around 500."
"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."
"It's worth the money."
"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."
"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."
"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 find the solution's price to be fairly good."
"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
 

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...
What do you like most about AppNeta?
The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues.
 

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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