Alluvio AppResponse Reviews

AppResponse is for packet capture and analysis. I focus within public sector customers, state, local, and education.

I sell it; they buy it. Improvements depend on the enterprise and how they're using it specifically. They're capturing packet data and using other tools to help analyze it.

We are the partner of Riverbed. Once any customer buys the Riverbed product, we deploy and configure it to meet their use cases. Alluvio AppResponse can identify if a page or an application is slow and determine whether the issue is from the network side, server side, or application side. It's deployed adjacent to the core switch, where it spans the traffic and collects it. Then, we define the applications by name, URL, and port through which the application traffic is coming.

With Alluvio AppResponse, there is an in-built analytical analysis with AI and ML, which identifies and provides data such as the number of TCP retransmits, web access time, total connection time out, total connections established, and server-side errors. The RTCC response time composition chart is crucial because it helps pinpoint the issue's origin, whether from the server, network, or application side. It's a superb product when compared to SolarWinds SAM, which is agent-based, while Alluvio AppResponse captures all traffic from the core switch.

We use Alluvio AppResponse to look at application response time between our servers and our actual end users.

Alluvio AppResponse has helped us with regard to some of our application projects. We utilize the solution to monitor response time between service and application endpoints.

AppResponse is a device for network and application performance monitoring. It enables you to trace all transactions and connections and troubleshoot issues with the network, applications, and databases.

AppResponse is a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility into applications at all levels, from Layer 1 to Layer 7. We can trace all those sections: physical, IP, transport, presentation, application, etc. It gives us the full picture.

We use the solution for application performance, as well as capacity. We also use it for debugging. As we have a packet, we can look to this should the need arise. 

This kind of question is nonsensical to me since the tool is selected based on the service it is supposed to provide. No tool is simple, in as much as they all require certain competency skills. Firstly, a proper and wide range of the IT system is required. Secondly, there must be sufficient time to learn about the format of the tool, how it is designed and how it must be used. This applies to every tool, be it APM, NPM or SIEM. With this in mind, it is up to the user to have the competency and requisite knowledge of the landscape and system so that he may use it properly. 

Of course, there are certain tools which have, lets say, a nicer dashboard than others, such as Dynatrace. But, the dashboard is merely an extra service provided by the tool. The actual purposes of the tool and its attendant advantages is not the dashboard. It is to provide intelligence for understanding and analyzing the traffic and for reproducing and doing synthetics.

Really, this question comes back to the person involved, the one who purchases the product and defines its need. 

The most valuable aspect of the solution is the visibility. The full visibility that you get from the backend is excellent.

The stability is great.

We really like the scalability capabilities.

I'm not sure if I see room for improvement at this point. It works quite well for us. I'm not sure what other vendors offer, so it's hard for me to look at it and see things that may be missing from the offering.

The pricing is on the higher side of things. If they could lower it, that would be ideal.

We are a solution provider and this is one of the monitoring products that we implement for our clients. Our customers are typically government departments, and it is also used in enterprise data centers.

The most valuable feature is performance monitoring.

Riverbed has a few modular solutions. Some are independent but they are all part of a whole and they function as one solution. You can implement a few of these modules depending on what the customer is interested in. For example, APM and NPM, and sometimes both combined. This gives you a deeper and more complex picture than some competitors' solutions.

I have found the AppResponse, which is a packet capture solution, very good. It gives you the ability to drill down back in time. You've got all the packets there. You can troubleshoot it later, not immediately. It's very interesting.

It also has the modules to troubleshoot web applications, database transactions, and unified communications, all in one. It is something between an NPM and an APM.