Alluvio AppResponse vs NETSCOUT nGeniusONE comparison

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Riverbed and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Riverbed is ranked #48 with an average rating of 8.0, while NETSCOUT is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.0. Riverbed holds a 0.7% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE compete in network performance monitoring. Alluvio AppResponse leads in terms of deployment flexibility and speed, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is favored for its advanced analytics and comprehensive capabilities.

Features: Alluvio AppResponse offers real-time network traffic analysis, deep packet inspection, and quick issue identification. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides service assurance across complex networks, detailed application monitoring, and comprehensive analytics. Alluvio's features highlight simplicity, whereas NETSCOUT focuses on depth and detail.

Room for Improvement: Alluvio AppResponse could enhance advanced analytics, expand detailed monitoring capabilities, and integrate more robust reporting features. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE may improve on simplifying deployments, reducing setup time, and providing more user-friendly interfaces without sacrificing depth. Both systems have opportunities to refine feature sets and usability to better meet user needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alluvio AppResponse is easily deployable, offering quick implementation, supported by responsive customer service. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE involves a complex deployment, aligned with its comprehensive features, requiring more resources, with the backing of strong support services to guide through the process. The deployment experience reflects each product's unique approach, with Alluvio being quicker to set up and NETSCOUT ensuring detailed assistance for implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio AppResponse presents competitive pricing with quick ROI due to simplicity and fast integration, appealing for lower budgets. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, with a higher initial investment, is justified by its extensive capabilities, offering superior long-term ROI. The strategic investment in NETSCOUT aligns with organizations prioritizing in-depth monitoring, while Alluvio suits those seeking cost-effective solutions without compromising on essential insights.

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio AppResponse

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

48th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (44th)

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

27th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Alluvio AppResponse is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.1%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.1%
Alluvio AppResponse	0.7%
Other	98.2%

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Satyam Kumar

Senior Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Identifies and analyzes performance issues quickly using in-built AI and ML

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.

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Hasan Toffaha

Newwork And Collaboration Supervisor at Nafeza

Monitoring has improved bandwidth insights and application diagnosis but setup and costs still need work

They need room for improvement about the spare parts. There are shortages in Egypt in their stock. We tried to make RMA for specific parts, and it took a long time. Comparing this to a vendor like Cisco, who provides any component next business day, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE took a long time. This needs more improvement. I believe it is expensive. They need to reduce its budget a little bit. Comparing to other solutions, it is very expensive.

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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

"Each AppResponse implementation made our stability better across our 500+ applications."

"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."

"Opnet probes (AppResponse Xpert), now part of Riverbed, capture network traffic and calculate automatically many applicative and network KPI."

"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."

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

"Riverbed's product is a superb product."

"The most valuable feature is performance monitoring."

"The full visibility that you get from the backend is excellent."

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"We build application dashboards and performance indexes for locations, and this solution provides us with increased visibility while conducting IT deployments, such as data migration."

"For common issues, we have seen a measurable decrease in mean time to know (MTTK) and mean time to repair (MTTR), cutting troubleshoot time on many issues from days to hours (or less) and helping increase our application and network uptime."

"The product is very good, we have very few problems, and if we do have any issues, NETSCOUT gives us very good support with the right engineers who know the issues and provide an RMA if anything is wrong with a device."

"Other than those bugs I mentioned, we haven't encountered any issues with stability."

"Deep packet inspection is a very useful tool as it works in real time and uses serial packet-level analysis."

"The product is very good. We have very few problems."

"The quick drill-down views are similar to Wireshark views. Those are quite nice, with the views on how you interpret some of the data. The granularity of how far you can drill down into milliseconds or microseconds is a very nice feature. It actually stores quite a lot of data in its database."

"It catches bigger issues on a weekly basis. That's how often we find something big enough that the only reason we know about it is because of the nGeniusONE. The bigger issues are mostly security-type issues: Odd traffic leaving our network or coming into it, that has found its way past a firewall."

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Cons

"Need to bring back the NetFlow module for 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."

"It's not able to monitor SAP transactions."

"Technical support has been a problem for us. We had trouble with incompatibility during the implementation phase and they were a little bit late when it came to answering us."

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

"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."

"Marketing is complex and not well understood, so often this product is not considered a good fit just for a surface look."

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"Some help screens would be nice, especially if we bring on new operators. It would be great to see if they have more helpful tips available."

"Trying to set up dashboards is hard to figure out at times, if you don't do it every day. It's not really intuitive to set them all up... If there were a wizard to take us through, step-by-step, creating dashboards and the like, that would be really helpful."

"The stability is only fair. It goes down a lot."

"Its initial setup process is complicated."

"They can improve still on the workflows, document their workflows that are commonly used... We don't know some of the workflows yet, and it's not something that you can just read up in the manual. There is some stuff in the help manual and online, but it's to a point where you need to purchase extra training and services from them. You can't just go and read up on it yourself and learn from A to Z..."

"There are so many pieces of their product that integrate with one another that perhaps a recommendation for improvement would be some sort of bigger overview and map to help understand how all their pieces integrate together."

"There's a little too much investigation that the user has to do at this point."

"We would like more encryption of customer data, because we have a very security conscious company. We have a lot of regulation coming in which requires us to make customer data private."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 solution is no more expensive than other products."

"The price is only for acquisition; it's not a licence."

"If you are able and you are willing to use everything that Netscout provides to you, it's probably a relatively fair price. The problem is that it's such a large and such a complex tool that I'm not sure that many companies would be able to use it entirely, the way it's expected to be used."

"It is a little overall pricey and expensive, but you get what you pay for."

"We have a premium customized contract for the solution."

"The platform is expensive."

"I rate the price of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a four out of five."

"Make sure you get the low down on your licensing and understand the licensing requirements before making a purchase, especially when it comes to an upgrade. Make sure that it suits your needs before you commit to it. For example, we purchased ATA at version 6.2.1. At that time, the licensing covered everything we need. NETSCOUT comes out with 6.2.2, stating that in order to upgrade, you had to purchase CyberStream licensing. Now that requires some additional funding from both a capital investment and a maintenance cost. That's something that should have been said, "Well, if you want these additional features, you will need to purchase these CyberStreams." Otherwise, we should be allowed to continue on the basic operations as it is now through the newer releases without being stuck."

"It can be expensive, but if you have a good configuration, based on what you are looking for, it's okay, it's manageable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

14%

Performing Arts

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	10

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	37

Questions from the Community

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 Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

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...

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Regarding its high price, I give NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a seven.

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What needs improvement with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

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Also Known As

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

NETSCOUT nGenius, nGeniusONE

Overview

Alluvio AppResponse offers comprehensive performance monitoring and visibility for applications, servers, and networks. It captures network traffic and provides analytics, integrated with tools such as Wireshark and Riverbed Transaction Analyzer, aiding in identifying errors and enhancing data analysis.

Alluvio AppResponse is an advanced system designed for detailed monitoring of performance metrics across diverse IT environments. It effectively captures, analyzes, and reports on network traffic, providing valuable insights into application and server response times. With integration capabilities for tools like Wireshark, it allows users to delve deeper into network performance issues. AI and ML functionalities help in identifying TCP retransmits, web access times, and server-side errors, though there is a need for improved integration with other technologies and enhanced security features. Pricing and technical support responsiveness also present challenges. Often deployed near core switches, it's a preferred choice for enterprises looking to analyze application response times and ensure robust application manager visibility, helping to define traffic and applications effectively.

What are the standout features of Alluvio AppResponse?

Performance Monitoring: Tracks performance metrics of applications, servers, and networks in real-time.
Network Traffic Capture: Captures detailed network traffic data for analysis and troubleshooting.
Tool Integration: Works seamlessly with Wireshark and Riverbed Transaction Analyzer for comprehensive analysis.
AI and ML Insights: Utilizes AI and ML to identify TCP retransmits and server-side errors.
Intuitive Interface: Facilitates efficient data gathering and analysis with a user-friendly design.

What benefits should users expect from Alluvio AppResponse?

In-Depth Analytics: Offers robust data analytics for better decision-making.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs with scalable modules.
Strategic Metrics: Supports effective troubleshooting through strategic metric analysis.

Alluvio AppResponse finds its applications across various industries including government departments, enterprise data centers, and public sector institutions. It's particularly valuable for monitoring application performance and capacity, analyzing packet captures, and ensuring visibility between servers and end users. Deployed near core switches, it assists organizations in identifying network performance issues and optimizing their IT operations.

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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides comprehensive network performance insights through features like deep packet inspection and real-time traffic analysis. It helps organizations monitor network infrastructures effectively with tools for packet capture and analysis.

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is designed for in-depth network monitoring and troubleshooting. Offering application-layer visibility and dependency mapping, it delivers insights into network traffic and application performance. With its packet capture and analysis capabilities, organizations can make informed decisions by identifying and solving network issues efficiently. Although powerful, users note its complexity and reliance on physical servers as potential drawbacks and see opportunities for enhancement in user experience, data analysis, and integration capabilities.

What are the key features of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Deep Packet Inspection: Analyzes packet-level data in detail.
Application-Layer Visibility: Provides insights into application performance.
Dependency Mapping: Tracks interactions between network components.
Real-Time Traffic Analysis: Monitors network traffic continuously.
Intuitive Dashboards: Enhances user experience with easy data access.
Packet Decoding: Supports detailed troubleshooting processes.

What benefits should users expect from NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Network Anomaly Detection: Quickly identifies issues before they escalate.
Improved Troubleshooting: Enables accurate problem resolution.
Proactive Monitoring: Continuously assesses network health.
Application Performance Management: Ensures optimal application operation.
Enhanced Communication Diagnostics: Facilitates the pinpointing of VoIP and unified communications issues.

Implementation of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE spans across industries such as telecommunications and IT services where it is used for monitoring network performance and managing bandwidth utilization. It supports real-time diagnostics in Voice over IP and unified communications, enabling organizations to maintain high levels of service quality while identifying the sources of network performance issues efficiently.

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Sample Customers

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

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