Alluvio Aternity vs Azure Monitor comparison

Riverbed and Microsoft are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Riverbed is ranked #31 with an average rating of 9.0, while Microsoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.7. Riverbed holds a 0.7% mindshare in APM, compared to Microsoft’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Alluvio Aternity and Azure Monitor are solutions in the monitoring and observability space, each with unique strengths. Azure Monitor has the upper hand due to its integration within the Azure ecosystem and cost-effectiveness.

Features:Alluvio Aternity offers in-depth end-user experience monitoring, detailed performance metrics, and intuitive design. Azure Monitor provides extensive integration capabilities, robust data analysis tools, and a unified experience with other Azure services.

Room for Improvement:Alluvio Aternity needs enhancements in scalability, reducing setup complexity, and better deployment processes. Azure Monitor could improve the granularity of data insights, simplify the configuration process, and increase the user-friendly aspects of its interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Alluvio Aternity has a complex deployment and mixed reviews for customer service. Azure Monitor is easier to deploy within Azure and has robust customer support.

Pricing and ROI:Alluvio Aternity has higher setup costs and slower ROI. Azure Monitor is more cost-effective with a better ROI due to its seamless Azure ecosystem integration.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Alluvio Aternity enhances visibility and reduces debugging time, offering cost savings, though returns vary with usage and scale.

Sentiment score

6.4

Azure Monitor's ROI is mixed: some value its cost-effectiveness and insights, while others question its expense.

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Azure Monitor helps prevent impacts on their system.

Karthic Mohan

Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

9.0

Alluvio Aternity's customer service and technical support are praised for responsiveness, skill, professionalism, and seamless transition from Riverbed.

Sentiment score

6.1

Azure Monitor's customer service is praised for responsiveness, especially with premium support, but can improve on general knowledge and speed.

I would rate the technical support from Riverbed as nine out of ten.

Akhilesh Mishra

Technical Lead at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Riverbed's support is good in terms of response time and knowledge.

reviewer2668014

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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However, the second-line support is good.

Syed Abid

Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

Users end up getting no resolution from their team because they're outsourced vendors, and they don't have deeper expertise over any of the products they are referring to.

Muhammad Usman Khawar

Software Engineer (DevOps/ SRE) at Sensys LLC

I would rate the support for Azure Monitor as a seven.

Karthic Mohan

Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.5

Alluvio Aternity efficiently scales to 100,000 endpoints, offering seamless growth with high user satisfaction and minimal maintenance challenges.

Sentiment score

7.8

Azure Monitor provides scalable solutions for businesses, supports auto-scaling, integrates with tools, but requires careful cost management.

Alluvio Aternity and Nexthink are both scalable solutions that work well with large organizations of over 100,000 users globally.

reviewer2668014

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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With APM, you can go heavy or you can go light. It just depends on what you want, what your use case is, and how reactive you want to be to system load or resilient to failure.

Andy Rabern

Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

Azure Monitor is very scalable; there are no issues with scalability for different kinds of businesses.

Karthic Mohan

Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.6

Alluvio Aternity offers stable performance with minimal downtimes, swift issue resolution, and high reliability enhanced by robust cloud infrastructure.

Sentiment score

8.3

Azure Monitor is highly stable and reliable, though less agile, with high user ratings and potential cost concerns.

Stability is not the deciding factor; it is more about how a tool fits the use case and integrates at an enterprise level.

reviewer2668014

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Azure Monitor is working fine, yet I face a costing issue as if there are a lot of logs collected in the workspace or in the center, it becomes very costly.

Syed Abid

Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

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Room For Improvement

Alluvio Aternity requires simpler interfaces, improved custom reporting, flexible licensing, better integrations, and enhanced data visualization features.

Azure Monitor struggles with user-friendliness, integration, complexity, multi-cloud support, proactive monitoring, and requires enhanced usability and cost transparency.

The integration of AI agents could enhance these tools further, replacing traditional agents and plugins.

reviewer2668014

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

If one agent can do end-user activity monitoring and act as an EDR, then it would be better for the end-user, allowing easy avoidance of installing multiple agents on their machines.

Akhilesh Mishra

Technical Lead at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

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My perspective is more based on an Application Insights agent running on a service or an app service and sending the telemetry via the agent, and also doing the filtering of telemetry at the agent level so you are not having a ton of telemetry.

Andy Rabern

Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

The cost skyrockets once you start using it, and there are complaints that the actual cost of the Kubernetes cluster was less than the cost they were incurring for Azure Monitor.

Muhammad Usman Khawar

Software Engineer (DevOps/ SRE) at Sensys LLC

The challenges with Azure Monitor are that it's initially complex to set up because you need multiple components.

Karthic Mohan

Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant

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Setup Cost

Alluvio Aternity offers valuable analytics but can be costly; negotiation, setup and training influence overall investment significantly.

Azure Monitor offers cost-effective variable pricing, but careful management is essential to avoid high expenses for enterprise users.

Riverbed is costly in the Indian market

Akhilesh Mishra

Technical Lead at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

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When I export logs into the application, workspace, log analytic workspace, and into Sentinel to read reports, I need to add storage, which increases the cost.

Syed Abid

Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

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Valuable Features

Alluvio Aternity provides detailed monitoring and analysis, allowing IT teams to optimize performance and user experience effectively.

Azure Monitor provides comprehensive real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics, enhancing security and scalability for seamless infrastructure management.

The reporting part of Alluvio Aternity is good; it is granular, user-friendly, and easy to use.

Akhilesh Mishra

Technical Lead at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Alluvio Aternity provides predictive analysis and trend analysis for IT teams to evaluate the performance of hardware and applications.

reviewer2668014

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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The alerting features definitely help in reducing operational downtime for my customers by allowing us to get notifications in advance and take active actions.

Karthic Mohan

Cloud Solution Architect at Cloudzant

I also appreciate the ability to measure feature activity, see what types of devices they are on, follow specific use cases, and measure the amount of traffic going to a particular application.

Andy Rabern

Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

Resource monitoring is essential.

Syed Abid

Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

31st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile APM (4th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (6th)

Azure Monitor

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Monitoring Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Monitor is 2.4%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Azure Monitor	2.4%
Alluvio Aternity	0.7%
Other	96.9%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Akhilesh Mishra

Technical Lead at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Monitoring end-user activity has improved visibility into device and application performance

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 multiple agents installed on their endpoint machines. Deploying multiple agents can use the processor and utilize memory, so it's better to go with one agent. If one agent can do end-user activity monitoring and act as an EDR, then it would be better for the end-user, allowing easy avoidance of installing multiple agents on their machines.

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Andy Rabern

Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

Telemetry insights have improved how I track user behavior and application performance daily

I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion. There are advantages to having stream messaging and logging on that level. But for what it is, I feel it does well. My perspective is more based on an Application Insights agent running on a service or an app service and sending the telemetry via the agent, and also doing the filtering of telemetry at the agent level so you are not having a ton of telemetry. I believe Azure Monitor does pretty much the same thing. I have also used tools such as New Relic, and New Relic is a much more robust tool, but that is a different product and you are going to pay for that. It is a different offering altogether. The subscription that we had at the time allowed for a couple gigabytes of telemetry during the month, and I believe that telemetry only lives for about two months. You have to experiment with it to see how much you want to pay. I was not really involved in the pricing. It was more along the lines of we were running up against our limits in terms of the amount of free telemetry or telemetry that we get with our subscription, and so we either needed to scale back or turn specific telemetry types off or do some more sampling. It is nice that those capabilities are there so that you can reduce the amount of telemetry. I cannot really speak to pricing but I do believe that it is somewhat reasonable for Azure Monitor. New Relic is pretty expensive, I believe.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	32

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	29

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.

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What needs improvement with Aternity?

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What is your primary use case for Aternity?

The main use case for Alluvio Aternity is end-user activity monitoring, which is the process I'm mainly using currently.

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How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?

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What is your primary use case for Azure Monitor?

I am a developer who uses Azure Monitor for telemetry of the applications that I work on. Application Insights is one of those tools, and I have also used other non-Azure products before. Currently...

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Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity

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Overview

Alluvio Aternity offers detailed insights into user experience, device health, and application response times. It provides real-time data and visibility for enhanced performance and incident management with customizable monitoring and flexible integration.

Alluvio Aternity is a robust monitoring tool designed for detailed environmental insights, dashboards, and trend analysis that help optimize application performance and incident management. Users benefit from its real-time data, which aids proactive troubleshooting by providing visibility into end-user devices. Custom dashboards, benchmarks, and flexible Tableau integration facilitate easy data manipulation, ensuring comprehensive monitoring of standard and custom applications. While the interface complexity and desire for simpler monitor building pose challenges, Aternity remains a valuable resource for digital experience monitoring and performance assessment, particularly for platforms like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Office 365.

What are the key features of Alluvio Aternity?

Real-Time Data: Provides immediate visibility into end-user devices for proactive troubleshooting.
Custom Dashboards: Allows creation of tailored dashboards for performance evaluation.
Trend Analysis: Offers insight into application performance trends to help optimize operations.
Flexible Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Tableau for versatile data manipulation.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Covers both standard and custom applications for wide-ranging insights.

What benefits should users look for when evaluating Alluvio Aternity?

Enhanced Performance: Real-time data aids in improving application and device performance.
Proactive Troubleshooting: Immediate insights enable quicker response to issues.
Custom Monitoring: Tailored dashboards and monitoring cater to unique operational needs.
Flexible Data Use: Integration with tools like Tableau allows for effective data use and analysis.

Enterprises across industries leverage Alluvio Aternity for end-user activity monitoring and application performance assessment. They use its insights for digital experience monitoring and problem isolation, particularly in environments including remote sites and retail branches, measuring key metrics like CPU and memory usage.

Riverbed

Azure Monitor delivers comprehensive monitoring across applications and cloud resources, integrating seamlessly with Azure services to enhance performance tracking and telemetry analysis.

Azure Monitor extends monitoring capabilities for applications, infrastructure, and security, featuring easy integration with Azure and third-party tools. It supports dynamic alerting and telemetry, offering log analytics and metrics gathering. Users benefit from its alert system and intuitive dashboards, making it a preferred choice for multi-cloud and infrastructure monitoring across diverse IT environments. While users seek improved query building and interface navigation, they appreciate its scalability and cost-effectiveness.

What key features does Azure Monitor offer?

Integration with Visual Studio: Enhances debugging and monitoring for developers.
Dynamic Alerting: Provides real-time notifications for critical conditions.
Telemetry Capabilities: Advanced data collection to analyze and optimize application performance.
Logging and Metrics Gathering: Offers detailed insights for better resource management.
Custom Queries and Log Analytics: Facilitates in-depth data exploration and analysis.

What benefits do users experience with Azure Monitor?

Ease of Integration: Streamlines operations across Azure and third-party services.
Scalability: Adapts to growing monitoring needs efficiently.
Cost-Effectiveness: Balances cost with enhanced performance visibility.
Reporting Features: Provides comprehensive reports to improve operational efficiency.
Multi-Cloud Support: Extends monitoring capabilities across different cloud environments.

Azure Monitor sees widespread use for infrastructure and application monitoring across industries. Companies rely on it for performance tracking and incident management, often integrating it with Application Insights for enriched data analysis. Organizations use it to monitor servers and cloud services, utilizing its capabilities in DevOps practices and during cloud transformation processes for analyzing database metrics and ensuring efficient application functioning.

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Sample Customers

Maersk, SwissRe, Travis Perkins, Michelin, National Instruments, Simmons & Simmons, Lighthouse Guild

Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group

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