Alluvio Aternity vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Alluvio Aternity and Google Cloud's operations suite are two competing products in the tech space. Google Cloud's operations suite is perceived as superior due to its more comprehensive features.

Features: Alluvio Aternity is noted for detailed end-user experience monitoring and application performance insights. Google Cloud’s operations suite offers robust integration with other Google Cloud services and extensive logging capabilities. Users find Google Cloud's features more comprehensive and scalable.

Room for Improvement: Users recommend improvements in analytics dashboards and simpler report generation for Alluvio Aternity. Google Cloud's operations suite could improve interoperability with non-Google environments and offer more customizable alerting options. Alluvio Aternity can focus on usability enhancements, while Google Cloud can enhance cross-platform capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alluvio Aternity is easier to deploy, with clear documentation and responsive customer service. Google Cloud's operations suite has a complex setup that may require professional services, though its customer service is effective despite deployment challenges. Alluvio Aternity is favored for deployment ease and customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio Aternity users find its setup cost reasonable, with a strong ROI due to lower costs and efficient support. Google Cloud's operations suite has higher setup costs but offers ROI justified by advanced features and scalability. The choice depends on budget constraints versus feature needs, with Alluvio Aternity favored for cost-efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

34th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile APM (5th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (7th)

Google Cloud's operations s...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

31st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (23rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)	0.9%
Alluvio Aternity	0.9%
Other	98.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Akhilesh Mishra

Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Monitoring end-user activity has improved visibility into device and application performance

In my opinion, Riverbed can make Alluvio Aternity better by having the same Aternity agent help in security, such as antivirus or EDR, which would be useful, allowing customers to avoid having multiple agents installed on their endpoint machines. Deploying multiple agents can use the processor and utilize memory, so it's better to go with one agent. If one agent can do end-user activity monitoring and act as an EDR, then it would be better for the end-user, allowing easy avoidance of installing multiple agents on their machines.

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Anand_Patel

Senior Technical Architect at T-Systems International GmbH

Offers reliable Ops Agent and logging transport feature with easy third-party integrations

As part of our company, we implemented several changes in our log analytics pattern, including the storage and procurement process. Earlier, before implementing the solution, our company was able to procure only one year of data, but later, we came to the three-year mark. Around 15-20% reduction has been witnessed in the total analytic consumption of our company. The aforementioned result was possible because the solution allowed the creation of a dashboard where factors like storage costs, proportion of logs, and logs presence in a storage bucket or Big Query can all be checked. Earlier all logs were stored in a raw storage, but currently our company is able to move logs in table bucket that contributes towards cost savings. It has default integration for all gcp services. recently managed Prometheus support gives more flexibility to organizations to remain connected with their current Prometheus setup. We leveraged integrated FinOps Hub for recommendations for our workloads and server configurations, helpd us lot in order to get maximum TCO.

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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

"It is very good in terms of performance; you don't have to wait forever to try and get reports or results, and it is quite quick to get everything that you need out of the software."

"Alluvio Aternity is stable."

"If you had to choose one tool, if your organization said, "We're going to stop spending money on IT tools altogether, and you're only allowed to have one thing," I would take Aternity every time, because you can do so much with it."

"The implementation was pretty straightforward."

"Other features we use heavily are the WiFi analyzer, the Skype for Business analyzer, and the troubleshooting functionalities. We also use the Device Health quite religiously here for troubleshooting devices that are unhealthy, when we're talking about things like high CPU or memory consumption, or file system problems within the users' workstations."

"The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes."

"While it also provides desktop metrics, the main thing we use it for is monitoring our applications."

"It's all about being proactive and solving problems before they're big."

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"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."

"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."

"Google's technical support is very good."

"I like the monitoring feature."

"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"

"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."

"We find the solution to be stable."

"It has reduced the amount of time that we would take for troubleshooting."

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Cons

"Riverbed is costly in the Indian market; I would rate the pricing for Alluvio Aternity as a higher price."

"We are waiting for the GA release of their agent. I hope they can do better when they release their endpoint agents. Right now, we are not able to measure some applications, core applications, because it's relying on a specific version of the agent and that agent has not come out yet and there's no ETA. I would like to see them speed up time to market when they release agents."

"I would like to get more granular detail. In regards to defining the applications and activities upfront, that can be challenging. Simplifying that would be a big win. One of the things that I know they are already working on is a verbose mode."

"I would say the reporting capabilities of this product could use room for improvement."

"When it comes to a lot of the features that I would want, they will tell you they are in their SaaS version, which we don't use... They put all the new features on the SaaS solution and that's where you get the latest and greatest stuff... Why not have those features available for on-prem users?"

"To monitor these transactions, you need to look at it, analyze it and capture it. It requires a little bit of work, but in an environment like ours, you need it to be easier."

"Largely, once you get the product and you have it set up and get it installed, the relationship management after-sales leaves a lot to be desired."

"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."

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"It could be even more automated."

"It could be more stable."

"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it."

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"Google Stackdriver is a stable product, but there is some lagging we cannot stop."

"The process of logging analytics can be improved"

"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."

"Operations documentation could be a bit better. It took us some time to get up and running with it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."

"It's not a cheap product. There are no two ways about that. If you compare it with a couple of the other solutions operating in the space, it might be on the slightly more expensive side, but it is one of those tools where, once you've got it, you understand the true value. You will get that money back."

"If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."

"We always try to reduce costs and purchase the Alluvio Aternity Essentials license."

"Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."

"Its licensing cost is very low. That's one of the reasons why we have kept it for so long. We get more than a 70% discount on the maintenance licenses. Its cost is very low for us, but if you buy it new, it would be much more expensive at the retail price."

"The pricing is reasonable for the value that it gives because it does allow you to measure the cost ramifications of direct productivity loss for spends in both your infrastructure and on endpoints."

"It’s a little on the costly side, but if you license intelligently, accounting for your various hosts connecting in through VDI or terminal servers, you can make it well worth your money."

More Alluvio Aternity pricing and cost advice

"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

"We have a basic standard license without any additional costs."

"The cost could be lower."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	32

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aternity?

Riverbed is costly in the Indian market; I would rate the pricing for Alluvio Aternity as a higher price.

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What needs improvement with Aternity?

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What is your primary use case for Aternity?

The main use case for Alluvio Aternity is end-user activity monitoring, which is the process I'm mainly using currently.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Stackdriver?

As Ops Suite, is a google product which effectively comes at zero setup cost, in order to manage your on-premises logs on onsite, it involves negligible cost for using ops agent and it also include...

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Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity

Google Stackdriver, Stackdriver, Stackdriver Monitoring, Stackdriver Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring

Overview

Alluvio Aternity offers detailed insights into user experience, device health, and application response times. It provides real-time data and visibility for enhanced performance and incident management with customizable monitoring and flexible integration.

Alluvio Aternity is a robust monitoring tool designed for detailed environmental insights, dashboards, and trend analysis that help optimize application performance and incident management. Users benefit from its real-time data, which aids proactive troubleshooting by providing visibility into end-user devices. Custom dashboards, benchmarks, and flexible Tableau integration facilitate easy data manipulation, ensuring comprehensive monitoring of standard and custom applications. While the interface complexity and desire for simpler monitor building pose challenges, Aternity remains a valuable resource for digital experience monitoring and performance assessment, particularly for platforms like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Office 365.

What are the key features of Alluvio Aternity?

Real-Time Data: Provides immediate visibility into end-user devices for proactive troubleshooting.
Custom Dashboards: Allows creation of tailored dashboards for performance evaluation.
Trend Analysis: Offers insight into application performance trends to help optimize operations.
Flexible Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Tableau for versatile data manipulation.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Covers both standard and custom applications for wide-ranging insights.

What benefits should users look for when evaluating Alluvio Aternity?

Enhanced Performance: Real-time data aids in improving application and device performance.
Proactive Troubleshooting: Immediate insights enable quicker response to issues.
Custom Monitoring: Tailored dashboards and monitoring cater to unique operational needs.
Flexible Data Use: Integration with tools like Tableau allows for effective data use and analysis.

Enterprises across industries leverage Alluvio Aternity for end-user activity monitoring and application performance assessment. They use its insights for digital experience monitoring and problem isolation, particularly in environments including remote sites and retail branches, measuring key metrics like CPU and memory usage.

Riverbed

Google Cloud's operations suite is a comprehensive toolset offering multi-cloud support, insights into performance, uptime, health, and scalable logging for seamless cloud operations.

This suite by Google Cloud provides robust features for organizations managing workloads on GCP and AWS. It offers real-time logging and monitoring, aiding in efficient troubleshooting and performance analysis. With automatic monitoring, statistical insights for Kubernetes and VPNs, and the ability to manage logs, it helps in optimizing technology changes and supports risk management. Despite needs for better APM, cost clarity, migration tools, and enhanced documentation, companies benefit from its capabilities in tracking errors and analyzing metrics in execution environments.

What are the key features of Google Cloud's operations suite?

Multi-cloud Integration: Seamless support for GCP and AWS environments.
Performance Visibility: Insights into system health and uptime.
Scalable Logging: Efficient log management and export capabilities.
User-friendly Interface: Intuitive interaction for easy monitoring configuration.

What benefits and ROI can be expected from Google Cloud's operations suite?

Enhanced Monitoring: Real-time updates facilitate swift response to performance issues.
Efficient Troubleshooting: Detailed log analysis helps resolve code issues quickly.
Performance Analysis: Dashboards support engineering load testing and SLA monitoring.

Industries utilizing Google Cloud's operations suite find it invaluable for optimizing cloud operations, especially in sectors involving extensive database requests and workload execution. Java and Python teams leverage its logging and alert capabilities for improved error tracking and metrics analysis, crucial for maintaining high-performance standards in tech-driven environments.

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Sample Customers

Maersk, SwissRe, Travis Perkins, Michelin, National Instruments, Simmons & Simmons, Lighthouse Guild

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