Alluvio AppResponse vs Auvik Network Management (ANM) comparison

Riverbed and Auvik are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Riverbed is ranked #58 with an average rating of 8.0, while Auvik is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6. Riverbed holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to Auvik’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 99% of Auvik users who would recommend it.

Alluvio AppResponse

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Auvik Network Management (ANM)

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Alluvio AppResponse

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and Auvik Network Management are competing in network performance and management, with Auvik having an upper hand due to its comprehensive network visibility and control.

Features: Alluvio AppResponse provides deep packet analysis, application response monitoring, and extensive data insights. Auvik Network Management offers network mapping, asset management, and comprehensive network visibility.

Room for Improvement: Alluvio AppResponse could improve in simplifying its deployment process, integrating more cloud-based functionalities, and enhancing its user interface. Auvik Network Management could benefit from deeper packet-level analysis, more detailed insight reports, and enhanced scalability for larger networks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Auvik Network Management holds an advantage with a cloud-based deployment that simplifies setup and minimizes time investment. It also excels in customer service with effective and responsive support. On the other hand, Alluvio AppResponse requires a more involved deployment due to its on-premise components which may demand more resources and time investment.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio AppResponse's pricing is justified by its detailed insights and long-term value for enterprises needing in-depth monitoring. Auvik Network Management offers a more attractive upfront cost with considerable ROI, ideal for users seeking a broader range of network management benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio AppResponse

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

58th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (48th)

Auvik Network Management (ANM)

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

190

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (3rd), Network Troubleshooting (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (3rd), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Alluvio AppResponse is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Auvik Network Management (ANM) is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ahmet Kilic

Network and Security Unit Manager at Bankalararası Kart Merkezi (BKM)

It's a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility at all levels

I rate Alluvio AppResponse 10 out of 10. If you work for a financial company especially, you probably face problems on the application side. The problem is easy to identify, but you need to determine the root cause. You can solve issues easily via AppResponse because it shows you all the details of your transactions so you can see the real problem in the database, network, software, etc. For example, you can find the solution easily if you create the right dashboard on your site. If you can't find the problem, you can observe or investigate PCAP.

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Jeremy Campbell

IT Manager at Seyer Industries

Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage

When I change IP addresses on a device or on a server, I have to wait for Auvik to figure out that change. It will tell me the device is offline until Auvik scans the whole subnet again and finds it. If I change 25 devices, I'll get 50 emails in a short time because they've gone offline. I'd love the ability to change that where I can update that device with the IP address without it going offline. That goes against the idea of a system that dynamically scans. It's information overload sometimes when you need to change a bunch of factors. You get inundated with emails. I would almost love a button whenever you first log in that says maintenance window, and then it would maybe take some of those alerts away. It's fairly intuitive but sometimes you have to search for things because it's hidden in the user interface, so I think that could be improved a little bit. The search could be better because they have these strange search terms. Instead of being able to look for what you want, you have to lay out the query in a specific way to get results. We've also been dealing with some weird bugs lately. We get alerts on miscellaneous items that go offline and online all the time. I've reached out to support, and they said that they've got a fix that they rolled out. However, we're still experiencing the issue, so I've got to work with them to fix that. They seem to be on top of the support.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"You need a packet capture device to perform any type of network monitoring. It helps ensure that network overloads don't happen with alerts allowing for proactive decisions."

"It's a stable product. Riverbed has invested a significant amount of research and development into it, so it's a solid tool overall."

"The most valuable feature is performance monitoring."

"With some APM solutions, it can take a long time to check a periodic report, but you can get all the necessary details quickly with AppResponse."

"Riverbed's product is a superb product."

"When it comes to the ability to scale up the product, this is suitable for small medium and large environments,"

"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."

"Ability to see end to end user, application, server, and network response time and throughput data."

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"The first feature that I appreciate is the topology drawing in real time. If our NOC wants to troubleshoot, they can go to the topology map and see that this access point is connected to that switch via that specific port. And when something changes in the topology, it's dynamically updated."

"Shadow IT monitoring is huge for us since so many of our customers are highly regulated."

"The most valuable features are the traffic analysis and the network mapping."

"They allow for integrations into their platform via API with PSA tools like ConnectWise Manage and ConnectWise Automate. They have a lot of add-on integration and plug-ins for a lot of the big names and IT RMM stacks commonly used in my industry space. These integrations are absolutely valuable. With the integrations into ConnectWise, we are able to automatically create and close tickets across systems."

"The most valuable features include the inventory management and alerting capabilities."

"My favorite feature so far is the alerts section. We've got our main company at the top, and then all of our customers are underneath that. We can either filter by a single customer or one of their sites specifically, or look at it from the top down and see the whole picture. It's an easy way for me to be able to have a high-level overview. I can see the status of all of our sites simultaneously without having to really dig in and get super granular, unless I want to."

"Its network discovery capabilities are very impressive. The discovery piece is amazing. I don't know if they have an AI or some type of advanced intelligence inside of their program that helps with the discovery piece. I haven't seen anything that discovers products that well and is able to label them, tag them, and pull as much information about them. I don't know what drives that engine, but I'm just absolutely blown away by it. It is cool."

"Auvik's most valuable features are the combined monitoring and backup functionalities."

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Cons

"The recent changes in corporate structure may have caused some decrease in support quality."

"Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems."

"Need to bring back the NetFlow module for AppResponse."

"The AI features should be addressed in respect of the analysis and intelligence that must be supported and delivered in the tool to predigest the large amounts of data."

"The initial setup is straightforward, but you have to know a little about the product. It's not for everybody to just plug and play. If you know how the solution is implemented then it is straightforward."

"The recent changes in corporate structure may have caused some decrease in support quality."

"If Alluvio AppResponse reduces its cost, it will be more beneficial for customers to monitor their application and network performance."

"Technical support needs to be more responsive."

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"There's room for improvement in the interface."

"Getting remotely connected to managed devices could be a little bit smoother. Sometimes, it's a little bit cumbersome trying to do that. If they could streamline the facilitating of remote connections to network devices, that would be an improvement."

"Scheduling maintenance would be much easier if there was a dedicated section readily visible on each client's main page."

"We schedule backups in the middle of the night, and a high volume of data passes through our networks during those backups because it backs up everything for a couple of hours. That generates alerts in Auvik's monitoring systems saying that these network ports are at 99 percent utilization because they're being maxed out. I'd like to have a way to mute alerts during these hours. There's no way to whitelist this activity within a set period. I want to be able to tell Auvik not to send me alerts about high utilization on these ports between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m."

"The actual adding of networks, systems, and everything like that is fairly easy, but the problem that I have is getting the metrics out. Specifically, if you go to the Auvik webpage, sign in, and go through the alerts and everything else, they don't offer any plasma display with a red light, green light, or stop light indicating this device is in an error state, down, etc. To get around this, we have to use their API. I had to code an entire interface to work around that lack of information."

"It sometimes lags, especially in larger deployments."

"Auvik Network Management needs to improve its operational technology coverage."

"However, its pricing was a little bit higher."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is no more expensive than other products."

"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."

"The price is a little bit high, especially because we have to pay an import tax."

"It is costly for small and medium businesses."

"The pricing model makes a lot of sense and it's pretty reasonable considering it's based on the Managed Network devices that we have out there."

"The price for Auvik is affordable."

"The price is a little high, and the product could be more cost-friendly. We work with many small and medium-sized businesses, so the cost can be hard to justify. We try to work around that, but it would be nice if Auvik were more cost-effective. Most enterprise-level businesses we work with have their own internal monitoring solutions, whether Nagios or SolarWinds."

"Auvik is billed by network device. They bill our firewalls and networks. However, there are devices that are not subject to billing in our environment, such as PCs, phones, and printers."

"The pricing was a little bit higher. They can work on that as everybody wants to save money."

"I'm unfamiliar with other network monitoring applications, as I've been using Auvik for so long, but it is one of the more expensive solutions. However, we have used the product to troubleshoot different issues. For example, one of our clients had an issue where their phones were constantly going down, and nobody could figure out the problem. We put Auvik on the network and found a loop in their switches, so it simplifies our lives, increases resolution speed, and makes us look like competent technicians."

"The pricing is very good."

"Auvik's pricing falls within an acceptable range for us."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

The pricing of Riverbed Alluvio AppResponse is really high. Very few customers buy Riverbed because many do not have the sufficient budget. Its pricing is comparatively higher than SolarWinds. Rive...

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What needs improvement with Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

The reporting models need improvement as most of the time, we have to customize the reports manually. Additionally, a feature similar to SolarWinds AppStack, which provides a holistic view of the i...

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What do you like most about Auvik?

The most valuable feature for us in Auvik is the network topology.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auvik?

Auvik is pricey, and we were paying a lot for it, especially when compared to SolarWinds.

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What needs improvement with Auvik?

The network maps can be confusing due to the wide scope of the network, making it difficult to find specific details. Improvements in the network exclusions part would be helpful, as well as enhanc...

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Also Known As

Riverbed AppResponse, OPNET SteelCentral AppResponse, ACE Live, OPNET, AppResponse Xpert

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Overview

Alluvio AppResponse provides fast packet capture and storage that feeds intelligent network and application analysis with fast troubleshooting workflows to speed problem diagnosis and resolution. AppResponse delivers full stack application analysis—from packets to web pages - enabling you observe all network and application interactions as they cross the wire, whether they are encrypted or not. Using powerful, flexible network and application analytics and workflows, AppResponse speeds problem diagnosis and resolution, helping you get to answers fast

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Auvik is a network management software that provides real-time visibility and control over network infrastructure.

It automates network mapping, monitoring, and troubleshooting, allowing IT teams to easily identify and resolve issues.

With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Auvik helps businesses optimize their network performance and ensure smooth operations.

Auvik

Sample Customers

N11.com, OneMain Financial, China Bank, Halkbank, Kaust

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