Alluvio Aternity vs SolarWinds AppOptics comparison

Riverbed and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Riverbed is ranked #30 with an average rating of 9.0, while SolarWinds is ranked #54. Riverbed holds a 0.8% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

Alluvio Aternity

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Alluvio Aternity and SolarWinds AppOptics are two performance monitoring solutions catering to tech buyers. Users are happier with the pricing and support of Alluvio Aternity, but SolarWinds AppOptics is seen as superior due to its advanced features, making it worth the additional cost.

Features: Alluvio Aternity offers comprehensive end-user experience monitoring, broader monitoring capabilities, and valuable diagnostic tools. SolarWinds AppOptics provides deep-dive application performance insights, detailed analytics, and advanced performance metrics.

Room for Improvement: Alluvio Aternity could enhance integration capabilities, streamline processes, and improve adaptability. SolarWinds AppOptics needs better scalability, more efficient handling of larger environments, and additional performance enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alluvio Aternity is praised for straightforward deployment and dependable customer service. SolarWinds AppOptics has easy deployment but mixed reviews regarding support response times.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio Aternity is recognized for cost-effectiveness and solid ROI. SolarWinds AppOptics, though more expensive, is justified by its notable feature set and performance benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

30th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

54th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (62nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (42nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds AppOptics is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Alluvio Aternity	0.8%
SolarWinds AppOptics	0.8%
Other	98.4%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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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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John Yuko

Assistant Manager ICT - Projects at I&M Bank Ltd

Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions

I would like to see more granular information provided on Unix applications. Also, the integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward in terms having an agent to retrieve your credentials rather than having to enter or save them for SSH on SolarWinds. From the outset, we had to set some commands to log into the search console, and they are saved on the solution, which presents a challenge in terms of exposure. The solution is unable to monitor APK solutions completely because we'd then be forced to break down the APK and provide the APIs or go through the source code. They don't have a module that can analyze an application that is maybe under-used.

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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 could resolve issues that they had been facing for months or years. They had been having the same issues, the same performance problems, whether it was Excel taking a long time to load, or network instability, or voice call problems, and we would fix it in minutes, in front of them in a meeting, with absolute confidence. It would just blow their minds."

"The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"

"The implementation was pretty straightforward."

"When employees complain of trouble with applications or devices, Aternity enables us to see exactly what they see as they engage with apps, allowing us to focus our troubleshooting and quickly perform fault domain isolation across branches, users, and applications."

"The most valuable feature for me is being able to monitor the productivity of every employee in the company as well as third-party, outsourced companies that work on our behalf."

"There are many valuable features. If I had to single out one, it would be the UXI score. That's a proprietary Aternity score that tells you how good or bad the experience is for a user on that particular machine, for a particular app. It neatly encapsulates the pain of the user in a single score. It's very easy to find issues and then drill down further into those issues, based on that score."

"The most valuable feature is the alerting. As soon as we click on an incident, it takes us directly to the problematic PC. It's a direct solution. We click on an alert and it takes us to the incident details. The details show in different colors, in a graphical representation, and I like that the most."

"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."

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"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."

"SolarWinds AppOptics does far more than what an individual may realize; it is not just a SIEM tool."

"It's a solid application."

"With minimal effort on our part, TraceView provides extraordinary visibility into the requests that flow through our SOA applications."

"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."

"The product has a great dashboard."

"The reporting of the solution is very good."

"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."

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Cons

"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."

"We are not satisfied with their technical support. If there is a problem, you have to wait for several days to get a response."

"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."

"I would say the reporting capabilities of this product could use room for improvement. The standard reports that are given are not the greatest, and no custom ones can be created; however, I am told that the latest version of Aternity offers this!"

"The process of doing the application recording is a bit cumbersome."

"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?"

"Aternity doesn't currently provide metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps. It's something you have to build out. It's not 'canned' that way and there is a lot of configuration that you have to do to the environment to collect the data you want to collect and that is important to you."

"I want more reporting around asset management, with greater flexibility and customization ability."

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"Because of its inability to monitor mobile solutions, I would rate this solution as a seven out of ten."

"I'd like to see the ability to use other internal instrumented applications as filters in the overview/aggregation screen."

"The support is not too bad, but also not very good—it's quite standard."

"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."

"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."

"We had a stability issue with a portion of the installation (Sequencer) when it was first introduced and have chosen not to install that specific function."

"The solution should be more user-friendly."

"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing is a bit high. Don't take that as the "be all, end all"."

"It is definitely a premium solution; it is not an inexpensive product. We have to ensure that we are getting the most out of it in order to justify the cost. However, it is not cheap, especially when you want to install it on all your endpoints."

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

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"I believe the current licensing cost is reasonable."

"Since it's a negotiable rate, I would rate the pricing as a five out of five."

"Mostly, it's a perpetual license. We don't have any customers using the subscription right now—it's mostly a perpetual license that the customers purchase. The licensing is based on the number of elements, whereas other solutions are node-based."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Small Business

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

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

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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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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Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity

AppOptics, SolarWinds TraceView, Librato

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

SolarWinds AppOptics offers powerful network performance monitoring and application insights, aiding enterprises in optimizing operations.

SolarWinds AppOptics provides comprehensive tools for network and application performance management. This platform enhances real-time monitoring capabilities, offering topology discovery and hop-by-hop performance analysis. With a focus on minimal configuration, users gain extraordinary visibility into service-oriented architecture applications and are equipped to identify performance issues efficiently. The dashboard's integration capabilities streamline application performance data, empowering organizations with robust reporting features. The deployment is popularly on-premises, yet improvements are desired in pricing strategy and integrations with existing tools.

What are the important features of SolarWinds AppOptics?

Topology Discovery: Facilitates understanding of network structure and connections.
Real-Time Monitoring: Delivers current data to monitor system performance live.
Heat Maps: Provides visual insights into network traffic patterns and performance metrics.
Pathview Monitoring: Enables tracking and evaluation of network performance per segment.
Integration Capabilities: Supports metrics integration for comprehensive system monitoring.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Efficiency in Issue Resolution: Swift identification of network bottlenecks and performance issues.
Enhanced Reporting: In-depth reports facilitating data-driven decisions.
Increased Visibility: Comprehensive insights into application and network activities.
Minimal Configuration: Quick setup enabling immediate utility and productivity.

SolarWinds AppOptics is widely used in network operations within enterprises, also extending to server and application monitoring. Deployed to track servers and network devices, it aids in analyzation of logs and data across environments, and is essential for service management. Specific industries benefit from detailed deployment inventory and management portfolios enabled by AppOptics.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

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

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