Alluvio Aternity vs AppNeta by Broadcom comparison

Riverbed and Broadcom are both solutions in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category. Riverbed is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5, while Broadcom is ranked #16. Riverbed holds a 5.0% mindshare in DEM, compared to Broadcom’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Alluvio Aternity

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Alluvio Aternity and AppNeta by Broadcom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Alluvio Aternity vs. AppNeta by Broadcom

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity

Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (34th), Mobile APM (4th)

AppNeta by Broadcom

Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

16th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (68th), Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), DX NetOps (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 5.0%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AppNeta by Broadcom is 3.2%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Alluvio Aternity	5.0%
AppNeta by Broadcom	3.2%
Other	91.8%

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

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reviewer2668014

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Predictive analysis has improved IT performance evaluation and problem management

I am a senior program manager and consultant who has worked with numerous companies. I downloaded the report for personal knowledge and was comparing tech solutions, like Aternity and Alluvio Aternity. My work involves consulting organizations and enhancing my knowledge on product technology…

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Out West

Project Manager and IT Management Consultant at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides great visibility, offers quantifiable data, and helps with testing latency tolerance

When you look in the layer 7 environment, you actually can see the code operating against the two parties. It could be a client server, a web server, or a database server. It could be a database server and another database server. You can look at whatever those application components are and you see how they're interoperating. If for some reason, there's a runaway command or something that's inefficient, you can see the command that's being executed and the players that it's operating against. I did that with the infrastructure team and the application development team, and we could very quickly remedy problems with the application that the organization was facing for an extended period of time, even before my project was initiated. I've recently looked at their current offering and see that they can investigate Layer 7 network to see what commands are being written and passed or returned. That's quite useful. It will help identify latency and if it is related to the traffic or the code itself. That, in turn, helps people debug more quickly. We can rectify issues in days as opposed to months. I like that we have quantifiable data in order to get true measures. The solution provides more visibility into the monitoring of traffic. It helps address blind spots. It develops an intelligent fabric that gives you a more realistic view of the true traffic within the environment. When it comes to the visibility into the infrastructure, it is imperative that the people applying these probes understand the reference architecture and understand their segmentation model. Sometimes if an organization has a compliance responsibility, then normally, the segmentation models are somewhat defined. If, for some reason, the organization is open and there aren't too many like that anymore, then there are no problems. You start to segment the incident and try to understand the relationship between these different assets and the environment, it might block traffic and you might not be able to see it. When you're dealing with Cisco fabric, if for some reason you have a host hanging off a distribution switch and another host hanging off a distribution switch based on the Cisco fabric, that traffic may never hit the core switch. Sometimes people analyze NetFlow off the core, but if something is operating through a distribution switch, you will never see that traffic when you're dealing with a Cisco fabric. I define that as a layer 2 blind spot. In order for you to rectify that, you have to have probes in environments that travel through the course switch to see the full amount of traffic. Once you set up the fabric, that becomes one large network to your network environment, and they're not traffic tracking anything within it until it hits a port somewhere. Alerting is becoming more critical over time. I've been in this business for a long time. Twenty years ago we'd be in a data center and we'd have a perimeter network and we'd be done. The bottom line would be very difficult for someone to come in and compromise my environment. Then we extended our environments from on-premise into co-location. Now we actually have traffic that goes over a wide area network. As such, our security profile changes over time. At first, we would normally do it through all layer 2 relationships or VPN-type environments, but now we're doing it over the internet. The instant we poke a hole through your internet, even though we have a tunnel within it, we're exposed to a higher-threat environment. Now that we're in the cloud, we're going through a higher-threat environment. Around two years ago there was an exploit that focused on the chip. So even if I'm using a cloud provider, I'm leveraging their hypervisor, and I have my own tenancy, at the end of the day everything runs through a processor. So when that processor exploit came through, around four years ago, that problem's wide open. At the end of the day, now more than ever, monitoring is important. Somebody noticed a spike in traffic, somebody compromised the environment. It was a ransomware attack. Because of that leading indicator plus the consideration of the compute environment as well, they could shut down the attack but if they didn't have that capability, they would've been taken advantage of. Based on the ability to look for those leading indicators that can be fed back or introduced into your SIEM environment to make sure that you're responding to any threats that may occur, which are more prevalent now than ever before. The user interface they have right now is very powerful.

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Pros

"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."

"DEM-Q (Digital Experience Management Quadrant) is very useful. This is where they stand out with their dashboard, because it gives us a picture of how our company is doing compared to the other businesses out there."

"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 two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."

"The data the solution provides is valuable to us; we can see the health of the machines, how they are performing, and what might be causing issues on a particular machine."

"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."

"There are also built-in activities that let you measure things like preview mail, open address book, and send mail. Those are the activities that we are able to get measurements on, and those are things we have not seen in other software monitoring tools."

"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."

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"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."

"This solution helps prove that, if we move to cloud, we'll still be as effective as we are on-premises."

"We get complete, hop-by-hop visibility into the internet and we can know how much latency is taking place from one hop to another. That way, we know whether a particular hop belongs to the ISP, or that it is something owned by our own client's office, or is something to do with the SaaS network."

"The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues."

"A lot of times one of the AppNeta transactions showed that there is an issue, whereas everything seemed to be working properly. Once we dug into it, we realized that it really was highlighting a problem that otherwise we would not have seen."

"Delivery and experience are valuable. The usage in terms of the traffic application captures and other similar things is also valuable."

"The solution's technical support is very good."

Cons

"When it comes to what is called creating signatures, it's not easy for a non-coding person for desktop applications. You need to run the recording and you need to have some exposure and knowledge. That is an area where they can improve. For web applications, they have the Web Activity Creator and that's an awesome and easy tool. Anybody can use it and capture the signatures. With the desktop applications it's a little more cumbersome and difficult."

"I think the workflow needs improvement"

"Being able to add custom monitoring to dashboards would be nice. Right now, if you want to monitor the value of a registry key on your systems, to get that added into the dashboard you have to reach out to Aternity so they can start looking for that value. It would be interesting if that were more of a self-serve function."

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

"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."

"The solution's downloadable reports could be improved."

"Reliability: Issues interfering with the deployment and use of the product has made its use reduced in scope."

"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."

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"Having to deal with configuring the end devices using a USB stick is a bit cumbersome. It would be nice if there was a better way of handling that."

"I would like to see some advanced dashboard features. It could also be integrated with third-party tools. For example, an integration with a reporting solution would be helpful. Out-of-the-box, there are few dashboards or reports. What it does have is useful, but there should be additional dashboards."

"AppNeta by Broadcom needs to add more features to its dashboards. It also needs to work on providing out-of-the-box reports."

"They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes."

"Cloud monitoring could be better. That's one of the biggest pain points for me. I have shared this feedback with them multiple times, but they're limited to some extent. That's one area where I've seen a problem."

"Instead of integrating with other people, they should expand their interior capabilities."

"I think some of the product's documentation has shortcomings and needs improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"In my opinion they are asking a lot for their SaaS solution, but I also know that that's the direction they're going... The current, on-prem solution is probably a fair price."

"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."

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

"The price for Alluvio Aternity is favorable."

"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."

"The pricing is fair."

"You have to purchase it for 12 months, which is an issue because a lot of our customers are on a per-user-per-month type billing. There are a few additional costs. A lot of customers only get the essential licenses, and then they get what they call the application add-ons on top. They have to pay depending on how many customers and applications they want to monitor."

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"I find the solution's price to be fairly good."

"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."

"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."

"It's worth the money."

"The small probe is probably around $3,000 and the very large probe that they make for massive data centers might be $50,000 or $60,000. It's a subscription model, so the payment is per year."

"We typically don't get involved in the commercial side, but the list price is probably something like $3,000 for a small probe. However, that gives all of the features that the probe can do, whether or not you use them. In the old days, up until two or three years ago, each of the separate features was a separately licensable module so that you could add things that you wanted, and you didn't have to add things that you didn't want. They've changed all that now, and everything the probe can do is a part of the base license."

"I inherited this from a different version, and I haven't yet gone through a renewal because we had purchased three years upfront. So, to me, that still remains to be seen. Once it comes up for renewal, we'll see what happens. Especially because now it is Broadcom, it is going to change anyway."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Insurance Company

Retailer

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	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Aternity?

The dashboard is very effective.

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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?

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 mult...

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What open source tool can one use to measure bandwidth from one's upstream service provider?

One I am looking closely at is AppNeta. They have an appliance that can digest the flow and do a better job than Netflow. The other one we are using is ExtraHop. This has both a Datacenter Hig...

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Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity

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Overview

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:

Automatic discovery of every application in your enterprise portfolio, including SaaS and Shadow IT apps.
Click to render - measuring users' interactions with applications in the context of a business process.
Change validation - validating the impact of any type of device, application, or infrastructure change on end user experience.
Self-healing - automated remediation actions to recover from the most commonly expected user experience issues.
Anomaly detection - proactive notification of end-user issues
Transaction tracing of distributed applications - including cloud-native apps, via OpenTelemetry
Application troubleshooting - identify the cause of application issues

Aternity Benefits

Some of the biggest advantages the Aternity offers include:

Resolve problems quickly: With Aternity, you can monitor client-side latency, analyze the health and key metrics of the end user’s device, and correlate app performance to the virtual systems they are running on.

Reduce virtualization sprawl: Aternity helps you eliminate under-utilized resources with its ability to correlate the inventory of virtual desktop infrastructure to actual usage.

Experience level agreement (XLA): Aternity’s XLA feature can help your organization prove quality of service. Specifically, the XLA validates that business activity performance across all applications meets expectations by geography, department, and data center.

Mitigate IT transformation risk: Aternity helps you achieve success of both strategic and tactical IT initiatives.

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."

Riverbed

AppNeta is the leader in proactive end-user performance monitoring solutions built for the distributed digital enterprise. With AppNeta, IT and Network Ops teams can assure continuous and exceptional delivery of business-critical applications. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams essential application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.

For more information, visit www.appneta.com.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

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

Ebay, Citrix, National Instruments, Marriott, AT&T, Bon-Ton, McDonald's, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, QAD

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