Alluvio AppResponse vs DX Unified Infrastructure Management comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and DX Unified Infrastructure Management compete in the network and infrastructure management space. Alluvio AppResponse is favored for pricing and support, while DX Unified Infrastructure Management stands out for its features that justify the cost.

Features: Alluvio AppResponse offers strong packet-level analysis, real-time visibility, and is ideal for in-depth network monitoring. DX Unified Infrastructure Management provides comprehensive infrastructure visibility, predictive analytics, and supports a broader range of IT operations.

Room for Improvement: Alluvio AppResponse could improve its broader infrastructure management capabilities, predictive analytics, and integration with extensive IT operations. DX Unified Infrastructure Management might enhance its ease of deployment, streamline support for faster integration, and offer a more simplified pricing model for cost-conscious buyers.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alluvio AppResponse simplifies integration with efficient support, making the deployment process straightforward. DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers a robust deployment model with extensive customer service resources, although its broader scope can complicate the process.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio AppResponse is known for competitive pricing and quick ROI, appealing to cost-conscious buyers. DX Unified Infrastructure Management, despite a higher initial setup cost, provides substantial long-term benefits and ROI through its comprehensive feature set.

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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)

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

75th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (24th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (55th), Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), AIOps (21st)

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 DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.4%, down from 0.4% 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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Arunpandiyan M

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support

There are quite a few manual processes. We've had issues with pulling reports. Sometimes we have trouble or get errors. The reporting process should be easier. If you have a hub, you should be able to have an unlimited number of servers. For example, if you have 500 servers, and the limit is ten, you have to pull 50 reports. We'd like to just pull one report for all servers. This also increases the time to pull reports. If we have to pull more reports, it takes that much longer than just pulling one. The product can be expensive. Right now, they are updating and consolidating the dashboard. I'm expecting an update that will resolve a few glitches in the server.

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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

"The most valuable feature is performance monitoring."

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

"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."

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

"We really like the scalability capabilities."

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

"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 provides us with complete visibility of every packet."

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"DX UIM is scalable."

"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."

"It is very scalable."

"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."

"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."

"It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."

"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."

"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."

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Cons

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

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

"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."

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

"Integration between NPM and APM solutions would improve efficiency. There is no agent on the server site related to AppResponse."

"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."

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"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "

"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."

"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."

"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."

"There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want."

"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."

"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."

"We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"It is costly for small and medium businesses."

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

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Real Estate/Law 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 is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

We are an integrating company that offers DX Unified Infrastructure Management to customers. We help them set it up, do the integration, and provide support. Our end customers include financial ins...

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Infrastructure Manager?

I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten due to its robust functionality and capability to support inf...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Infrastructure Manager?

The pricing of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is high and often a concern for customers. The cost is higher compared to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), which is feedback we hav...

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Also Known As

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

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

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

Riverbed

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

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Sample Customers

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

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

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