Alluvio AppResponse vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

Riverbed and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Riverbed is ranked #54 with an average rating of 8.0, while Plixer is ranked #75. Riverbed holds a 0.7% mindshare in NMS, compared to Plixer’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.

Alluvio AppResponse

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and Plixer Scrutinizer are competing in the network performance monitoring and analysis space. Plixer Scrutinizer often has the advantage due to its robust feature set and advanced functionalities.

Features: Alluvio AppResponse provides comprehensive network data capture, analytics for troubleshooting, and network optimization. Plixer Scrutinizer offers flow-based monitoring, advanced reporting features, and detailed traffic analysis. Plixer's data processing capabilities deliver a broader range of insights.

Room for Improvement: Alluvio AppResponse could enhance its analytical depth and improve integration with other platforms. A more intuitive user interface and enhanced scalability would benefit broader audiences. Plixer Scrutinizer might reduce complexity in deployment processes and simplify its interface. Improving its real-time alerting system and offering more flexible pricing options could enhance its offering.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alluvio AppResponse is straightforward in deployment and praised for strong customer support, ensuring quick issue resolution. Plixer Scrutinizer, though more complex to deploy, offers in-depth support through extensive resources and guidance, beneficial for technical environments.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio AppResponse has a competitive initial setup cost, appealing to budget-conscious organizations with reliable ROI. Plixer Scrutinizer, despite higher setup costs, offers significant long-term value through its advanced features, making it a cost-effective investment for detailed network insights.

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio AppResponse

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

54th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (46th)

Plixer Scrutinizer

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

75th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Alluvio AppResponse is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Alluvio AppResponse	0.7%
Plixer Scrutinizer	0.5%
Other	98.8%

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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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Ira Mulyanti

Sales Director at ARGA SOLUSI

An affordable product with great integration capabilities

Plixer Core Platform is a valuable feature and a good software. Plixer Scrutinizer uses NetFlow analysis to monitor whatever is there in a network. Price-wise, Plixer Scrutinizer is not an expensive product. Basically, Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that can integrate with any other brand or product in the market, so it is not an area of concern.

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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

"We really like the scalability capabilities."

"The most valuable feature is performance monitoring."

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

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

"It provides us with complete visibility of every packet."

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

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

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"We didn't experience any bugs."

"It shows us the saturation of the network of devices. It gives us a clear view of the flows in the network to understand, for instance, planning upgrades in the network to get an idea of what's going on the network on traffic flows. It gives us insight, for instance, on what's going on on our VPN Client. There are a lot of things where it provides very helpful information. It also gives us our security reports with quite detailed information on what's going on in the network, and whether there are data exfiltrations and so on."

"The most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer are its ease of use, accessibility, and UI."

"As a network engineer, the ability to identify what traffic on the link is consuming all the bandwidth at any given time, and provide immediate feedback to the business, is the most valuable feature."

"Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features."

"The reporting and generating troubleshooting reports would be the best feature; our host-to-host conversation reporting."

"There are other tools out there that will do what Scrutinizer does. But what I have found with Scrutinizer is that it does it very quickly. I've taken 25 million individual data fragments from the different sensors, and it has graphed that and mapped it and presented a picture within 30 seconds. It has a very efficient database algorithm that I am really impressed with."

"Visualization of the network traffic is the most valuable feature. It allows you to drill into information quite quickly."

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Cons

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

"The reporting models need improvement as most of the time, we have to customize the reports manually."

"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."

"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."

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

"They need to better integrate with products and solutions from different vendors."

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

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"They're working on the security areas, so it can provide more insight. What they have is still pretty much IP-concentric. If they were to make it IP and URL, they'd be a little bit ahead on that."

"There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point."

"There is room for improvement around the data that they have on the website about solutions... they should have more templated solutions on their website. Going out and identifying how to do RTP performance with a Cisco router, or how to do application response times in an Arrista data center deployment was where most of the work was... They should spend some more time documenting solutions and putting together white papers."

"Data retention needs improvement. Data retention is a thing where we are looking for a better way to collect flow data for a longer time to do forensic research on security incidents. By default, data retention is quite low. We need detailed data in safe storage for a longer time, e.g., for a couple of months. An improvement would be a way to export data into a secure long-term storage."

"We couldn't get it set up properly."

"It would be useful if there was a way to back up the configuration information. E.g., if you wanted to deploy a new instance or disaster recovery, you could quite easily deploy and restore the config, as opposed to having to restore all the NetFlow data. If there was just a button that said "backup config information", that would be good."

"In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required."

"The solution creates a visual map of a particular location and how the network flows. You need to spend time to generate all those maps. If they could figure out a way to reduce the time needed to generate the maps, that would be great."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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 licensing cost for Plixer Scrutinizer is in the middle. It's not the cheapest, but it's not the most expensive. Its licensing model is based on how many exporters, how many devices export information to the system. Plixer Scrutinizer has different modules you could add such as the security module which would cost extra."

"Compared to some of the other tools we have, it's incredibly reasonably priced."

"We recently bought a license upgrade, so we will integrate more exporters. We upgraded from a 25 exporter license to a 50 exporter license. Therefore, there will be more flows, and this will be an extension. I don't know when we will purchase a faster server, because the server that we have is quite new."

"I rate Plixer Scrutinizer's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price or affordable, and ten is high price or expensive."

"We have increased the license over time. We have added more licenses as the network has grown."

"We pay our one-off cost for the licenses, per device, in blocks of 50. And then we pay an annual maintenance fee of about $15,000 Australian, which is, at this point in time, about $9,000 US, for those 250 devices. The upfront costs for the 250-license use, were about $50,000 Australian, which is about $32,000 US."

"It's about €10,000 a year for initial license and yearly maintenance costs. In addition, the hardware costs are about €10,000 once every five years."

"We just renewed. The pricing is 5,000 euro per year. This is the final price. All tax (20 percent) is included."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

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15%

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

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Company Size

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	10

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

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What is your primary use case for Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

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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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The Scrutinizer incident response system leverages network traffic analytics to provide active monitoring, visualization, and reporting of network and security incidents. The system quickly delivers the rich forensic data needed by IT professionals to support fast and efficient incident response.

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

Oxford Networks, Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, UltiSat, Wipro, West Aurora School District 129, SUNY Geneseo College, Bloomington Public Schools, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, Kitsap Credit Union, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Houston Texas, Carilion Clinic, Banner Health, IDEXX Laboratories, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, Goodwill Industries, Parmalat, Armstrong Coal Company, Flybe, James Walker

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