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Alluvio Aternity pros and cons

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PROS

Alluvio Aternity offers comprehensive alerting features that deliver quick access and detailed insights into specific incidents on particular PCs.
It provides in-depth monitoring capabilities, including out-of-the-box and custom options, available for both web and desktop applications, enhancing operational insight and control.
Alluvio Aternity is adept at application performance troubleshooting, providing breakdowns from the end-user perspective and pinpoint analysis of transaction times split into client, network, and server times.
The platform includes metrics on employee experience across all business-critical applications, offering valuable insights through comparisons with market standards via the Digital Experience Management Quadrant.
Its fast performance and immediate reporting capabilities enable efficient profiling of user activities and network issues, ultimately enhancing user and administrative experiences.

CONS

Creating signatures is difficult for non-coding individuals for desktop applications and needs improvement.
Custom monitoring to dashboards requires reaching out to Aternity, making it challenging for self-serve functionality.
Performance data provided lacks actionable insights, requiring knowledge and experience to interpret and draw conclusions.
System administration and management for on-prem, non-SaaS customers are complex and prone to support calls.
The price for Alluvio Aternity is high, with a licensing model that doesn't suit the market, causing issues for customers.
 

Alluvio Aternity Pros review quotes

RD
Sep 15, 2020
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.
reviewer1418499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 10, 2020
We've looked at the Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) to see how our digital experience compares to others who use the solution. We have used that to see how we are trending and it gives us some insight into areas that we might need to focus more on. That's helpful.
reviewer1412316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2020
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.
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reviewer1412346 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2020
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.
reviewer1456116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 18, 2020
Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified.
BS
Aug 27, 2020
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.
reviewer1413246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 1, 2020
As a financial institution, we have a lot of applications that are either written internally or bought from a vendor and customized for us. Having a tool that lets us monitor specific transactions in those applications allows us to focus on the transactions that are important to the business.
ZA
Sep 2, 2020
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.
Caillin Peacock - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 2, 2022
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.
IC
Sep 14, 2020
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.
 

Alluvio Aternity Cons review quotes

RD
Sep 15, 2020
Potentially, the one thing that could probably help with better levels of enterprise adoption is around creating the application monitoring signatures. That process can be a little bit difficult. If one thing could be simplified a little bit, it would be the application monitoring signature creation process.
reviewer1418499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 10, 2020
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.
reviewer1412316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2020
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.
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reviewer1412346 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2020
Aternity does provide performance numbers, the data. However, it doesn't tell you what you can do about it. It just presents the facts. How to interpret the data, and how to draw conclusions from a lot of the data, requires knowledge and experience. That's the part that I would hope Aternity can continue to explore and give us that kind of capability.
reviewer1456116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 18, 2020
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.
BS
Aug 27, 2020
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.
reviewer1413246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 1, 2020
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.
ZA
Sep 2, 2020
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.
Caillin Peacock - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 2, 2022
I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great.
IC
Sep 14, 2020
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?