Alluvio Aternity and CA App Synthetic Monitor compete in the IT performance monitoring category. Users generally give Aternity the upper hand due to its easier setup and better customer service, while CA App Synthetic Monitor is praised for its comprehensive features.
Features: Aternity provides comprehensive visibility into end-user experiences, strong monitoring across devices and applications, and better real-time insights. CA App Synthetic Monitor offers advanced synthetic monitoring features, in-depth analytics, and robust IT monitoring capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Aternity needs better data granularity, more automation capabilities, and enhancements in data detail. CA App Synthetic Monitor requires better integration with third-party tools, an improved alerting system, and enhanced integration options.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Aternity users report a smoother deployment experience and more responsive customer support, while CA App Synthetic Monitor faces criticism for a complex setup process and less supportive customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Aternity users find its initial setup cost reasonable and are satisfied with the ROI. CA App Synthetic Monitor has a higher setup cost, but users feel the ROI justifies the investment due to its extensive features.
Alluvio Aternity full-spectrum Digital Experience Management provides insight into the business impact of customer and employee digital experience by capturing and storing technical telemetry at scale from employee devices, every type of business application, and your cloud-native application service.
It also helps you resolve issues quickly by showing you response time breakdown between client device, network, and application back ends. Aternity provides AI-powered visibility into the end user experience of every cloud, SaaS, thick client, or enterprise mobile app, whether it runs on a virtual, physical, or mobile device.
Aternity Features
Aternity has many valuable features, including:
Aternity Benefits
Some of the biggest advantages the Aternity offers include:
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Aternity users.
PeerSpot user Ryan P., Head of Cyber Security Engineering & Oversight at a media company, says, "The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it."
An Endpoint Administration Manager at a financial services firm mentions, “It gives you the ability to filter the comparison by geography, industry, or company size.” He also adds, “We have absolutely seen ROI. It's really given us a very high level of visibility that we've just not ever had.”
A Regional Network Manager at a recruiting/HR firm comments, "Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application."
A Sr. IT Manager at a manufacturing company states, "The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."
IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.
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