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Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance vs Gremlin Reliability Management Platform comparison

Cisco and Gremlin are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Cisco is ranked #39 with an average rating of 8.0, while Gremlin is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.7. Cisco holds a 0.9% mindshare in APM, compared to Gremlin’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Gremlin users who would recommend it.
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85% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance and Gremlin Reliability Management Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Provider Connectivity...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
39th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (44th)
Gremlin Reliability Managem...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
23rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (25th), DevSecOps (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is 0.1%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform0.1%
Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance0.9%
Other99.0%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

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Pifu Lin - PeerSpot reviewer
Pifu Lin
Senior System Engineer at DYNASAFE TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
Addresses connectivity issues with real-time monitoring while offering good local support
I had prepared for COC and the client. I work as a vendor for a client using Flow Mount for network performance monitoring. I focus on resolving client-side issues related to Packy Performance and quality use. This involves addressing network device issues, specifically Cisco network devices One…
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Varun Lellapalli
Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees
Chaos experiments have revealed weak points and now provide controlled cost-saving tests
The best features of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform are the safe failure injection, which is crucial as we can simulate the failures in a manner that we know these are just dumping tests and not the actual issues. Whether it is the CPU spike or the memory exhaustion, or the network latency, or the server shutdown, server shutdown is one of the most favorite features that I have in Gremlin Reliability Management Platform. The controlled blast radius is another standout feature. The controlled blast radius feature has helped my team in that we actually wanted to target only one specific container, our Docker containers that we deployed. It helped us to conduct tests in a very specific, isolated manner instead of launching a larger test or focusing on hundreds of servers at a time, resulting in very limited impact. Since ours is a very small team, we do not want to impact other servers. This controlled blast radius helped us to only focus on our servers and not impact any other team. Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has positively impacted my organization because before Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we did not even know how to conduct these chaos engineering tests. We heard about it, but we had no idea of how to do something of that nature. If there are ten servers, ten systems in our architecture and if suddenly something goes down, nobody knew what would happen next. We did not even know how to simulate these types of tests. This lack of confidence has been mitigated by using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform. Now we can confidently test and see which system is the most critical. If this goes down, what happens? How much business valuation are we going to impact? How much loss are we going to incur? All of this is now clearly visible and transparent. Since using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we were able to reduce the incidents by six percent after conducting our limited experiments. We were also able to increase the uptime from ninety-eight to ninety-nine, which represents a one percent increase in uptime.
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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

"Skylight is not used on a daily basis, but when it's used it usually helps to fix a problem pretty fast."
"If [the problem] is something related to HTTP or VoIP, then I can have a quick look into the protocols, a process which gives me some good ideas..."
"Ease of use; can literally diagnose an issue in about four clicks."
"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Excellent and responsive."
"The feature I used to like the most was its ability to decode layer seven protocols, although this is becoming less useful now that encryption is so widespread."
"The solution’s UI and single pane of glass is good. The new dashboard is modern with its new design. The look of it is not pretty, but it is efficient, which is good. It is user-friendly; you can find what you need on the interface quickly."
"One valuable feature we have is real-time monitoring for connection issues."
"My customer also likes the interface, the GUI, because it's easy to operate."
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"Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is amazing with the reliability score, providing built-in Chaos Engineering experiments that you run on your service to receive a reliability score along with insights on the issues and risks present in your service that you can examine and work on."
"More than anything, we fix failures even before they occur, which is basically proactive risk detection and risk mitigation."
"Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has impacted my organization positively as it helped a lot and reduced our failures, allowing us to find critical pinpoints in our application that had existed for three to ten months and led to too many improvements, reduced downtime, and a smoother experience for our application on AWS."
"Using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has raised more than fifty percent of the reliability of the infrastructure."
"Since using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we were able to reduce the incidents by six percent after conducting our limited experiments, and we were also able to increase the uptime from ninety-eight to ninety-nine, which represents a one percent increase in uptime."
"We are seeing a return on investment from using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform because we are getting less production issues by thirty percent, as I mentioned earlier, making it a great investment."
"The Enterprise Reliability Platform has positively impacted my organization as it has significantly increased the efficiency and reliability of our systems."
 

Cons

"We have encountered problems with the license that is connected to the hypervisor on which the virtual appliance is deployed."
"Human resource costs can be high when dealing with connection issues."
"The licensing of the virtual pollers is problematic because they are attached to the physical ESX on which they are installed."
"It needs the possibility to export data because it is not easy to see larger data sets, e.g., for one month. It would be interesting to export data into a PDF or dashboard to keep a history of the situation."
"Increase the drive’s capacity to store more data, and maybe switch to a database system similar to 3Big-Data."
"This solution is expensive compared to some others."
"It's a bit slow. When I execute a query, something general with a short timeframe that covers one month, for instance, and I do not specify the IP source or IP destination, it can take ages because it has to query the whole database."
"Because of the policies in Vietnam, we cannot connect the system to the Accedian cloud. It would be good if Accedian could provide a local cloud."
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"I think that it will be important to have resources to perform self-directed studies on Gremlin Reliability Management Platform as an improvement."
"If you really look at the cost-benefit visibility, it is not very evident by using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform."
"I think Gremlin Reliability Management Platform can be improved by integrating with more AWS services or GCP services."
"Gremlin Reliability Management Platform can be improved as the pricing is a bit expensive and the learning curve for beginners is a bit difficult."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of Accedian Skylight is really good. The sensors are low cost. Their model to analytics for sensors is by license, endpoint, or session. With the probes for their analytics, if they get deployed virtually, they are free. The licensing is only based on flows. So, you can effectively deploy probes everywhere in your network. Then, if you want to look at a specific type of traffic, you can enter into it with a very low cost license. You can just use things like spam ports, mirrors, TAPs, and aggregators to optimize what sort of traffic you send to these analysis tools. Then, if you want to start looking at more, you can up your licensed as you go. You are not getting forced into expensive appliances or subscription models."
"It provides value and the cost is not huge."
"Pricing is a little bit expensive."
"The price is competitive overall, depending on the type of customer."
"The solution was previously well-regarded, but after being acquired by Accedian, the prices have significantly increased. This has made it challenging to sell the product due to its high cost. It is an expensive solution."
"If you look into Riverbed, it's a licensing nightmare. You need to pay for every type of analysis... If you don't look into licensing, Riverbed and SolarWinds are pretty comparable. But if you look into licensing it would not be smart to go for either of them. On the pure, bare-metal basis, it's the same. But when you get the bare metal and a few basic licenses, then you need all those other licenses just to be sure that there's no issue... One of the great things about Skylight is you have them all, and you actually need them all."
"The pricing is cheaper than other competing products, which is better for our budgets."
"It's not for free, clearly. But on the other hand, it offers very interesting functionality. We pay around €100,000."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Printing Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Sports Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Accedian Skylight?
Human resource costs can be high when dealing with connection issues. I require more tools to file and resolve these issues efficiently.
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What is your primary use case for Accedian Skylight?
I had prepared for COC and the client. I work as a vendor for a client using Flow Mount for network performance monitoring. I focus on resolving client-side issues related to Packy Performance and ...
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What advice do you have for others considering Accedian Skylight?
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
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What needs improvement with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?
There are certain areas where I think Gremlin Reliability Management Platform can improve. I would certainly add features related to AI and GenAI for recommendations. While dependency identificatio...
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What is your primary use case for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?
The primary reason I am using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is to proactively test failures, identify weaknesses in my system, and fix them before real incidents actually occur. From a pr...
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What advice do you have for others considering Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?
I would certainly suggest others venture into Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, as there is no second thought about it. However, I would not recommend jumping straight into production chaos....
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Also Known As

Accedian Skylight, Accedian SkyLIGHT PVX, SkyLIGHT PVX, SecurActive, Performance Vision
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Overview

Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance is known for its user-friendly approach to network analysis and performance monitoring. It excels in real-time diagnostics, helping organizations quickly resolve network issues and optimize performance effortlessly.

Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance focuses on comprehensive network troubleshooting and performance monitoring, assisting in identifying bottlenecks and analyzing applications. Real-time data collection and evaluation ensure IT infrastructure efficiency. With active monitoring of latency, jitter, and throughput, users maintain smooth operations across multiple sites and applications. While highly effective, improvements in data handling, protocol support, and dashboard aesthetics are suggested to enhance user experience.

What are the key features of Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance?
  • Flow Matrices: Advanced analysis of network paths and traffic distribution.
  • SQL and DNS Analysis: In-depth insights into database and domain queries for troubleshooting.
  • Bandwidth Assessment: Evaluation of network capacity and utilization for performance optimization.
  • Real-time TWAMP Monitoring: Tracks network performance using Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol.
  • Application Performance Modules: Monitors the performance of various applications and services.
  • Customizable Dashboards: Personalized views for tracking critical network metrics and trends.
  • PCAP Capturing: Detailed packet analysis using tools like Wireshark for deeper insights.
What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?
  • Ease of Use: Intuitive design allowing users to swiftly diagnose network issues.
  • Comprehensive Monitoring: Enhanced visibility of network activity for better control.
  • Performance Efficiency: Optimization of throughput, reducing downtimes and improving service delivery.
  • Cost-Effectiveness: Balances features and functionality with competitive pricing for better ROI.

In industries such as telecommunications and finance, where network reliability is crucial, Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance offers critical network performance insights. It supports high-demand environments by providing data-driven decisions, ensuring infrastructures handle increased loads efficiently.

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Gremlin Reliability Management Platform empowers organizations to proactively identify and mitigate potential failures. It enhances system resilience through controlled chaos engineering, aiding tech teams in delivering reliable services.

Designed for tech-savvy users, Gremlin enables teams to implement chaos engineering effectively to ensure system reliability. It offers precise control over variables, allowing teams to simulate real-world scenarios and fortify system operations. Gremlin plays a strategic role in preventing downtime and maintaining optimal service delivery through a suite of advanced tools tailored for IT infrastructure.

What are the most important features of Gremlin?
  • Attack Library: Offers diverse failure scenarios for comprehensive testing.
  • Security Control: Ensures safe execution of tests with access restrictions.
  • Detailed Reporting: Provides insights into system weaknesses and improvements.
  • API Access: Facilitates automation and integration with existing systems.
What benefits should users look for in reviews?
  • Increased Uptime: Improved system availability through proactive testing.
  • Cost Efficiency: Reduced need for corrective measures post-failure.
  • Team Collaboration: Enhances coordination among IT and operations teams.
  • Product Reliability: More robust and reliable service delivery to clients.

In industries such as e-commerce, finance, and healthcare, Gremlin helps maintain service reliability by identifying vulnerabilities before they affect operations. IT teams can simulate stress tests specific to their industry, ensuring systems are resilient against potential threats, enhancing customer satisfaction, and securing business continuity.

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Sample Customers

T-Systems, Thomson Reuters, Bordeaux Metropole, CGI, Citadelle Regional Hospital Center, Lorraine Institute of Oncology, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Groupe BPCE, Group S, Splitpoint, Horus-Net, Audatex, Indexis, Province de Liège, EASI, Spie Batignolles, Faymonville
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