Alluvio AppResponse vs NETSCOUT nGeniusONE comparison

Riverbed and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Riverbed is ranked #56 with an average rating of 8.0, while NETSCOUT is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.5. Riverbed holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

Alluvio AppResponse

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE compete in network performance monitoring. Alluvio AppResponse leads in terms of deployment flexibility and speed, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is favored for its advanced analytics and comprehensive capabilities.

Features: Alluvio AppResponse offers real-time network traffic analysis, deep packet inspection, and quick issue identification. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides service assurance across complex networks, detailed application monitoring, and comprehensive analytics. Alluvio's features highlight simplicity, whereas NETSCOUT focuses on depth and detail.

Room for Improvement: Alluvio AppResponse could enhance advanced analytics, expand detailed monitoring capabilities, and integrate more robust reporting features. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE may improve on simplifying deployments, reducing setup time, and providing more user-friendly interfaces without sacrificing depth. Both systems have opportunities to refine feature sets and usability to better meet user needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alluvio AppResponse is easily deployable, offering quick implementation, supported by responsive customer service. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE involves a complex deployment, aligned with its comprehensive features, requiring more resources, with the backing of strong support services to guide through the process. The deployment experience reflects each product's unique approach, with Alluvio being quicker to set up and NETSCOUT ensuring detailed assistance for implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Alluvio AppResponse presents competitive pricing with quick ROI due to simplicity and fast integration, appealing for lower budgets. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, with a higher initial investment, is justified by its extensive capabilities, offering superior long-term ROI. The strategic investment in NETSCOUT aligns with organizations prioritizing in-depth monitoring, while Alluvio suits those seeking cost-effective solutions without compromising on essential insights.

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio AppResponse

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

56th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (49th)

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Alluvio AppResponse is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.5%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.5%
Alluvio AppResponse	0.5%
Other	98.0%

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Featured Reviews

Ahmet Kilic

Network and Security Unit Manager at Bankalararası Kart Merkezi (BKM)

It's a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility at all levels

I rate Alluvio AppResponse 10 out of 10. If you work for a financial company especially, you probably face problems on the application side. The problem is easy to identify, but you need to determine the root cause. You can solve issues easily via AppResponse because it shows you all the details of your transactions so you can see the real problem in the database, network, software, etc. For example, you can find the solution easily if you create the right dashboard on your site. If you can't find the problem, you can observe or investigate PCAP.

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Mohammed Hassan

Regional Director at iSecureMind

Helps us by providing root cause analysis when it comes to latency and performance issues

I would recommend NETSCOUT nGeniusONE to others yet not for small SMBs due to the pricing. It is important to have the necessary NETSCOUT experience for smooth integration. The automated issue detection sometimes has a few false positives but is overall cost-effective for our customers. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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

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

"AppResponse is a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility into applications at all levels, from Layer 1 to Layer 7. We can trace all those sections: physical, IP, transport, presentation, application, etc. It gives us the full picture."

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

"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."

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

"With some APM solutions, it can take a long time to check a periodic report, but you can get all the necessary details quickly with AppResponse."

"Riverbed's product is a superb product."

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"The solution transforms packet wire data into real-time data that is actionable. It helps us with faster detection of issues and allows us to create alerts."

"The most valuable feature is that it is in line with the traffic. It already captures the raw traffic itself and then filters it, giving us the correct image. Some other companies may just extract what they think is valuable from the traffic itself. nGeniusONE is in line."

"Aside from having the logs that are just on the firewall, we're able to get the traffic as it's going in between, throughout our network. It isolates end sources that are having issues, where we don't have any other tools that would be able to go down to an end-user's computer to find out what's going on."

"If a lot of traffic from one site is hitting AWS Cloud or the data center, then we want to know which client is utilizing the most bandwidth. We will work with nGeniusONE to troubleshoot the issue."

"It's a consolidated, single tool that talks to multiple platforms. It's not vendor-proprietary; it's independent. It provides interoperability with different products, whether they are routing products, switching products, wireless, wired, load balancing, or proxy. It works with anything you can name."

"This solution provides us with increased visibility while conducting IT deployments. E.g., if we have devices which have overloaded or links which have saturated, then this tool tells us exactly what is going on with that link or device. Very few tools do it at this level for things like DDoS."

"When we have any type of outage, and we dig into it, we are able to tell what the root cause is instead of having to go through Wireshark, etc."

"From the standpoint of VoLTE and related things, it's providing visibility into the network and how it operates."

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Cons

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

"If Alluvio AppResponse reduces its cost, it will be more beneficial for customers to monitor their application and network performance."

"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."

"Technical support needs to be more responsive."

"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 pricing is on the higher side of things. If they could lower it, that would be ideal."

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

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"I would love to have them reassemble fragmented packets. That would be a very big plus in my book."

"Trying to set up dashboards is hard to figure out at times, if you don't do it every day. It's not really intuitive to set them all up... If there were a wizard to take us through, step-by-step, creating dashboards and the like, that would be really helpful."

"The single pane of glass view is a challenge. I like the graphics, they're easy to understand, but when more digging is required, it's more complicated to get what I'm expecting."

"We would like better end-to-end data flows. This is something that my users always complain about, as they don't know what the data flows are on the network. We would like to know every point along the line."

"One of the products we use is SolarWinds, and it provides a very cool mapping of an agent from end-to-end. If NETSCOUT could somehow implement that into their design... make it quicker and easier to get those net paths, it would be huge."

"Some of the filters could be easier to see and to set up. That's the only thing that I've ever had any trouble with."

"Our biggest area of concern right now, supporting the applications, is that while NETSCOUT does a good job of monitoring the network and the applications, we need more visibility into system health and performance monitoring."

"I'd like to see the nGeniusONE, the nGeniusPULSE, and the OptiView, their three separate products, work a little better together, a little more streamlined."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is costly for small and medium businesses."

"The price is a little bit high, especially because we have to pay an import tax."

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

"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."

"The platform is expensive."

"Like any company, we always want better pricing. The pricing is okay, but it's not a cheap solution. When you want to deploy it across an enterprise as large as ours, you go into seven figures. It's not a cheap solution to get out there."

"The scalability becomes very expensive quickly."

"It can be expensive, but if you have a good configuration, based on what you are looking for, it's okay, it's manageable."

"I rate the price of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a four out of five."

"If you are able and you are willing to use everything that Netscout provides to you, it's probably a relatively fair price. The problem is that it's such a large and such a complex tool that I'm not sure that many companies would be able to use it entirely, the way it's expected to be used."

"The license becomes cost prohibitive very quickly."

"It is very expensive, but it's well worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Performing Arts

13%

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	37

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

The pricing of Riverbed Alluvio AppResponse is really high. Very few customers buy Riverbed because many do not have the sufficient budget. Its pricing is comparatively higher than SolarWinds. Rive...

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What needs improvement with Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

The reporting models need improvement as most of the time, we have to customize the reports manually. Additionally, a feature similar to SolarWinds AppStack, which provides a holistic view of the i...

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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What do you like most about NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

The pricing is a bit high yet not overly expensive. The cost depends on the size of the customer, as sizing controls the pricing.

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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

Riverbed

The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network.

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Sample Customers

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

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