Aternity AppInternals [EOL] vs BMC TrueSight comparison

Riverbed and BMC Helix are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 90% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of BMC Helix users who would recommend it.

Aternity AppInternals [EOL]

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 3, 2025

BMC TrueSight and Aternity AppInternals compete in IT infrastructure and application performance management. BMC TrueSight is favored for its comprehensive features and robust analytics, while Aternity AppInternals stands out with its advanced real-time performance monitoring.

Features: BMC TrueSight is known for its AI-driven analytics, automated problem-solving capabilities, and its integration as a manager of various monitoring tools, offering proactive management and deep infrastructure insights. Aternity AppInternals provides exceptional transaction tracing, real-user monitoring through Browsermetrix, and advanced performance analytics that offer visibility into application performance in real-time.

Room for Improvement: BMC TrueSight could benefit from reducing its resource-intensive deployment requirements, simplifying its extensive customer support complexity, and refining its dashboard presentation. Aternity AppInternals could improve its integration with newer technologies, enhance alert management capabilities, and expand the range of supported platforms for a more comprehensive monitoring solution.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BMC TrueSight offers a modular deployment model that is customizable but resource-intensive. Its customer service, while extensive, can seem complex to navigate. Aternity AppInternals provides a cloud-based setup that simplifies deployment and accelerates implementation with straightforward and accessible customer service.

Pricing and ROI: BMC TrueSight generally involves higher initial setup costs, justified by its extensive feature set that provides long-term value. Aternity AppInternals presents a more budget-friendly price structure, offering a faster ROI due to its lower setup costs and effective performance monitoring capabilities.

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Aternity AppInternals [EOL]

Average Rating

8.2

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BMC TrueSight

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (28th), Event Monitoring (8th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (30th), Cloud Monitoring Software (27th), AIOps (12th)

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reviewer1374792

IT Support Specialist at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Great for visibility but lacks many features and difficult to update

We're customers. We don't have a special relationship with the company. I am the operation's application administrator. At the moment, the solution is monitoring the applications that we want it to monitor. We're not looking at it on a daily basis. We just use it here and there. The challenge we have is that we believe that Dynatrace can address some tasks we'd like done that are not possible to execute on this solution. Dynatrace includes monitoring of not just the logs, but the applications as well. Dynatrace also makes us include firewalls, etc. We could have it so there are end to end solutions or identifications within the process. What we have right now is only the app server as well as the database server and its connectivity. The solution does save time that's caused when creating SQL coding. However, there are some issues around AppInternals changing the code and giving us issues. From the point of view of the top management, we want a more permanent solution. We want to identify what causes issues and we are looking for a more end-to-end solution. That is why we are looking at Dynatrace. I don't know if I have any advice for other organizations. The experience I have is only based on my own limited experience. However, I believe that the application has the potential to be really good if it identifies what is really important to an organization. It's still sort of half-baked without AppResponse. Without the other key features in infrastructure, like the network, firewalls, and proxies, it's lacking. It's not fully complete. I'd rate the solution six out of ten. It addresses some of our needs, but there's a lot lacking that could be added to make it a fuller, more interesting product.

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NikhilKalwint

Technical Specialist at ServiceIO

Has improved monitoring efficiency and supports fast issue resolution through responsive support and reliable automation

I work with BMC TrueSight and have been using it for eight-plus years BMC TrueSight brought a positive impact and benefits to our organization. The customization part is one of the advantages of the product, along with the monitoring capabilities. Automated root cause analysis and predictive…

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Pros

"If you want to save time for problem resolution, and to address problem on your environments you should try Riverbed OPNET."

"As an Administrator, before we bought this AppInternals, I didn't have visibility on why items were slow or why an application was not running. This gives us the ability to see what's going on. The application is load balancing. We can now see if its own server has issues or just one specific server has issues."

"From the experience I had with these three tools, I realized that Riverbed was superior in all aspects (performance, user experience, and features)."

"We just control on the backend of AppInternals what we want to instrument and what we don't want to instrument."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the integration with their other systems, it's easy to understand and it points out the relevant problems in the enterprise."

"The product is very useful to find problems in middleware for the application servers, especially agent instrumentation and management is user friendly."

"By going to v10 it made our lives a whole lot easier because prior to v10, we had to put all of these assets, these Riverbed arguments, basically JVM start up itself."

"Clicks to root cause - fast & easy to diagnose and deep-dive"

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"This is the best product so far I have ever experienced."

"The ability to fulfill the role as a manager of managers is fantastic."

"Allows reliable access to server hardware info, uptime statuses, current patching, and much more."

"BMC TrueSight Operations Management can be used to monitor anything on-premises, including the server, applications, log monitoring, event IT monitoring, and process monitoring."

"The tool is flexible enough to be customized based on customer requirements."

"It is a stable solution."

"The BMC TrueSight platform wins probably 80 percent of the time if you look feature by feature."

"Signature baselines, which have allowed us to fine tune many of our events and significantly reduce the number of events generated."

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Cons

"Support for PHP, DB and other applications need to be supported."

"The recording mechanism for synthetic transactions could be improved as well."

"We'd like to be able to find out performance problems on application class and methods."

"It wasn't a critical issue, but it was hot enough to where it would have been nice to get some guidance from Riverbed, but they went ahead and let us down, but that was only one occasion."

"There are some functional bugs when using TTW and making report queries (to generate graphs)."

"The admin dashboard could be easier as it takes a little bit of time to get used to it."

"We had issues with the end-to-end view of unique customer: reviewing end-to-end customer problems to see where a problem is about customer, code, DB or network."

"Deployment and agent patch management is not managed centrally, resulting in a large level of effort to update."

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"I would like to see a little more out-of-the-box event correlation and expanded AIOps type capabilities."

"BMC's solutions for cloud monitoring (monitoring of AWS and Azure resources) are very poor in stability and customization."

"The product must provide more AI capabilities."

"The UI for the end users could be improved and more flexible than it is now."

"There are some complexities with deployment that could be improved in BMC TrueSight."

"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."

"The sizing (which is difficult), the maintenance of it and the upgrade paths. This is a difficult area which is not easy to cover, as every client has a different approach of implementing the product."

"Multi-tenancy and the scalability have been challenges along the way, as we've grown."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing model for v9 is better where it is an individual license per server, while v10 licenses are per JVM/ .NET and server instance. The latter model appears to be the model that other APM vendors are using."

"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."

"Consider scalability very carefully: how much you want to monitor and what components are very important. Then, depending on these two things, filter out unwanted metrics or attributes. If you do a good job at filtering the data, then your licensing costs will be manageable."

"The solutions are not the cheapest but are robust and stable. License model is rather complex and BMC do often change the model."

"We pay license fees of between $150 and $200 per asset. There is an enterprise software license fee, and then you pay a percentage for your maintenance, and then Premier Support. For example, if you buy a two-year license for the product, then the maintenance fee is added to that for two years at X percent a year. Then there's a small fee on top of that for Premier Support..."

"They have changed the licensing fees."

"Other products are more expensive than BMC TrueSight."

"Use conservative figures. In terms of hardware, monitored servers and also effort. The product is not cheap. But as with other products, you get what you pay for."

"The only possible additional cost that I can mention, that you might not be aware of, is that it uses Oracle partitioning, if you use Oracle. There are Oracle partitioning fees that go with that."

"Annual licensing amount depends on the customers requirements. Support is an additional fee and there are options for three and five year support."

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What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Operations Management?

The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Operations Management?

BMC TrueSight licensing costs are on the more expensive side.

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What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Operations Management?

There are some complexities with deployment that could be improved in BMC TrueSight.

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Also Known As

SteelCentral AppInternals, OPNET ACE, AppInternals Xpert

ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management

Overview

Simplified high-definition APM visibility leveraging Real User Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, and OpenTelemetry, that is scalable, easy to use and deploy, and unifies insights across end users, applications, networks, and the cloud-native ecosystem

Riverbed

BMC TrueSight offers extensive event management and seamless integration, providing comprehensive monitoring across varied infrastructures through its centralized console and Knowledge Modules.

BMC TrueSight delivers robust event management capabilities with seamless integration and comprehensive monitoring of diverse infrastructures. Its single console simplifies management, offering automated triage for standardized alerts, enhancing efficiency. Knowledge Modules support services from hardware to cloud, while proactive monitoring and capacity optimization enhance customization. It efficiently supports mixed environments by providing detailed insights and intelligently routing alerts to reduce noise. While improvements are needed in deployment, integration, AI, automation, reporting, and complexity reduction, it still meets diverse operational needs effectively.

What are BMC TrueSight's key features?

Robust Event Management: Offers efficient handling of events.
Seamless Integration: Integrates easily with existing systems.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Supports hardware to cloud infrastructure.
Centralized Console: Simplifies management processes.
Automated Triage: Standardizes alerts for better efficiency.
Proactive Monitoring: Improves forecasting and issue prevention.
Capacity Optimization: Efficiently manages resources.
Customizability: Tailors to specific service needs.

What benefits and ROI should users seek in BMC TrueSight?

Enhanced Proactive Management: Reduces downtime through efficient monitoring.
Improved Troubleshooting: Provides visibility into systems for quick issue resolution.
Effective Integration: Blends well with other tools and platforms.
Resource Efficiency: Optimizes use of infrastructure and servers.
Global Support: Facilitates operations across sectors worldwide.

BMC TrueSight is widely used in performance and availability monitoring for infrastructure and applications, supporting the monitoring of servers, databases, networks, and IT environments. It is implemented to improve management and reduce downtime, serving needs in data centers and cloud services. Organizations leverage it for event management, comprehensive data center monitoring, and cloud services, using its capabilities for alerting, ticket creation, troubleshooting, and compliance, enhancing operational efficiency globally.

BMC Helix

Sample Customers

National Instruments, Allianz

Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank

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