Aternity AppInternals [EOL] Reviews

I was part of a Test Organization (focused on Performance Engineering) and TTW allows our engineers to provide many more improvements opportunities to the developers while improving software performance. It was not just saying where the problem was, but the tool was an enabler for more technical people to nail down the root cause of problems and propose better solutions. After the tool was installed in applications, the confidence of the team improved towards raising more specific performance defects.

This product has really wonderful features and one of the most valuable ones is the transaction searches into TTW. This will show you the operations that occurred under conditions that the user specifies, giving you the opportunity to drill down on the things that are more important and affecting system performance.

Besides that, the capability of analysing each individual transaction captured to a very low level detail (method call/line of code). This ability empowers the testing teams to provide more visibility to developers on how they can improve.

There are some functional bugs when using TTW and making report queries (to generate graphs). I remember them failing once in a while and then the time taken to complete a task was higher since long running reports needed to be played again.

Also, they should find a way for report generation from TTW to run quicker. Maybe it is the case of telling the user what kind of indexes/options could be used in each type of report to make it faster (in a help or “hint” approach).

The implementation we had in our organization was very stable. I

I would say there were opportunities for scalability, since many engineers were triggering heavy reports it took time to complete. However, as I was not managing infrastructure, I am not sure if we have used all resources.

I have not used technical support.

I have worked, in the past, with Mercury Diagnostics for performance troubleshooting and later (currently) with AppDynamics. From the experience I had with these three tools, I realized that Riverbed was superior in all aspects (performance, user experience, and features).

Since it was not me doing this activity, I cannot comment on it.

When I worked with Riverbed, there was an internal team responsible for implementation and maintenance. I took the user role to provide input to development teams.

I have not participated in negotiations. Cannot comment.

We primarily use this solution for troubleshooting. Whenever a customer has problems in the performance with the servers, we use this application to manage this do some troubleshooting to fix the problem.

The most valuable feature is the connections for marketing. I like it that one can match IPs with the application name.

I would like to see an improvement in the investigation. Sometimes one has some issues or something like an error that needs to be investigated to take appropriate action. But I have found a server error that I can't seem to move. 

I also think the support could be better. They weren't very helpful when I had a problem. 

The technical support is not very good and should be improved.

My advice to others would be to use this solution for monitoring. For instance, if I need to monitor something or if I have an error, I can take access from Riverbed, which will then provide me with a reports of what I should do. That is very handy. One should really understand how the solution works in order to get the best out of it. You can use it in many ways - you can do troubleshooting, make reports, you can read, and it will really help you, but you need to deliver it in the right way.

I will rate it a seven out of ten.