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Alluvio Aternity vs InfoVista 5View NetFlow comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
35th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Mobile APM (5th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (8th)
InfoVista 5View NetFlow
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
86th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of InfoVista 5View NetFlow is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Alluvio Aternity0.9%
InfoVista 5View NetFlow0.4%
Other98.7%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Akhilesh Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Pre-Sales 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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OSS Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow
We use InfoVista 5View NetFlow on a private cloud. This product has improved the way our organization functions through the better discovery of services. We check the IP address for Office 365 and other cloud applications used in business operations. We use InfoVista 5View NetFlow to understand the cost of the problems on our network links. We monitor the traffic flow and check which application is causing a lot of traffic. Instead of buying more bandwidth, we target the pocket with very high traffic. We move these applications so that the traffic is served through another partner. From Milan to Rome, we use various utilities for network load balancing for applications requiring excessive traffic. We monitor the traffic with InfoVista 5View NetFlow before going to the business and checking the on-site location for problems or issues.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us."
"The detailed level of information you are able to get on the complete environment all of the way down to a specific machine."
"It's one of those rare, genuine products that does what it says on the tin."
"The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us."
"There are many valuable features. If I had to single out one, it would be the UXI score. That's a proprietary Aternity score that tells you how good or bad the experience is for a user on that particular machine, for a particular app. It neatly encapsulates the pain of the user in a single score. It's very easy to find issues and then drill down further into those issues, based on that score."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."
"Overall, I would rate Aternity a 10 out of 10."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow is very powerful; it can go into the network to discover very low-level trouble in two or three seconds and, in a low range of time, certify network processes where you can see the data."
 

Cons

"They have a lot of features built into the product, but it would be nice if they had some additional features that I think a lot of organizations would benefit from."
"The version that I've seen, the one thing it doesn't do which I don't know if it's really meant to do is that you're getting all the view from the client side but sometimes it's not possible to look on the server side at anything that's happening on that side of things."
"When they moved from Version 8 to Version 9, the customers lost so much control of what they could do with the product."
"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."
"For me, the biggest problem is the price. It is about Aternity only giving you 12 months upfront, and a lot of our customers are on a per-user-per-month type billing."
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"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."
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."
"We always try to reduce costs and purchase the Alluvio Aternity Essentials license."
"The price for Alluvio Aternity is favorable."
"The pricing is fair."
"It’s a little on the costly side, but if you license intelligently, accounting for your various hosts connecting in through VDI or terminal servers, you can make it well worth your money."
"The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."
"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."
"Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
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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 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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Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity
5View NetFlow
 

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