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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and Dynatrace compete in the application performance monitoring space. Based on user reviews, Dynatrace has a slight edge due to its comprehensive feature set despite the higher cost.

What features are offered by Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to Dynatrace?

Alluvio AppResponse offers detailed network performance analysis, packet capture capabilities, and network-centric tools. Conversely, Dynatrace provides AI-driven analytics, full-stack monitoring, and integrated features that users find more holistic.

What areas of improvement can be found in Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to Dynatrace?

Alluvio AppResponse can improve its data visualization tools, integration with other platforms, and enhanced visualization. Dynatrace could improve the depth of performance metrics, provide clearer pricing models, and enhance metric details.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to Dynatrace?

Alluvio AppResponse has a straightforward deployment model requiring extensive network configuration with responsive customer service. Dynatrace offers smoother deployment with automated discovery and setup but has mixed reviews on customer service efficiency.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to Dynatrace?

Alluvio AppResponse is noted for reasonable setup costs and a solid ROI, while Dynatrace, though more expensive, provides a compelling ROI due to its extensive capabilities. Alluvio AppResponse's pricing is more accessible, but users often justify Dynatrace’s cost for its high functionality.

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Alluvio AppResponse vs. Dynatrace

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio AppResponse

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

44th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (47th)

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

360

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (5th), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio AppResponse is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dynatrace is 5.5%, down from 10.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	5.5%
Alluvio AppResponse	0.7%
Other	93.8%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Satyam Kumar

Senior Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Identifies and analyzes performance issues quickly using in-built AI and ML

With Alluvio AppResponse, there is an in-built analytical analysis with AI and ML, which identifies and provides data such as the number of TCP retransmits, web access time, total connection time out, total connections established, and server-side errors. The RTCC response time composition chart is crucial because it helps pinpoint the issue's origin, whether from the server, network, or application side. It's a superb product when compared to SolarWinds SAM, which is agent-based, while Alluvio AppResponse captures all traffic from the core switch.

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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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."

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

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

"The full visibility that you get from the backend is excellent."

"We require a staff of a small team to maintain the solution, and they can quickly find and troubleshoot problems in the database, transactions, unified communication, etc., because it is a very good tool that is very fast and very informative and gives you an overview where the problem is on the backend server or on the network side so you can then focus more deeply on that."

"You need a packet capture device to perform any type of network monitoring. It helps ensure that network overloads don't happen with alerts allowing for proactive decisions."

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

"Each AppResponse implementation made our stability better across our 500+ applications."

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"With the Agent-less monitoring and ability to create custom plugins we've been able to transform the tool not just into a great APM solution, but a really good Enterprise Monitoring solution too which helps replace the need for other tools such as SCOM, OpenView, SiteScope, etc."

"We use Dynatrace for application monitoring in production and we use it in Huawei testing sites for analyzing the performance."

"Dynatrace has great training available; it is easy for everybody to use, and anybody can go out to YouTube, watch a video, and figure out how to use the piece that they need."

"We use the Dynatrace AI to assess impact. Because it links to real users, it is generally pretty correct in terms of when it raises an incident. We determine the severity by how many users it is affecting, then we use it as business justification to put a priority on that alert."

"Dynatrace is a good product."

"The dashboard is very useful, as you can monitor different parameters on the same screen."

"This solution has helped our organization on multiple occasions. The synthetic monitor came in particularly handy."

"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."

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Cons

"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."

"Technical support needs to be more responsive."

"Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems."

"The recent changes in corporate structure may have caused some decrease in support quality."

"Disks are heavily used for traffic capture and may break times to times but RAID feature avoids any production pause."

"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 licenses are costly and are done per module."

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"Some technical architectures are based on an event mechanism operating via a publish/subscribe system. APM technology sometimes reaches its limits to go upstream."

"Dashboards are too clumsy, so it is good to keep less on dashboards and be easier to find the sections."

"The Web UI can be slow and hard to understand."

"Initially, we had issues scaling it to the enterprise level on a large, complex environment."

"The product could be faster and lighter, especially the rich client which uses many resources."

"From the Dynatrace SaaS platform, they talk about the APIs. The approach they take is, "We create the APIs, you use them however you want." I like it, that gives us flexibility. But at the same time, if your company does not have a huge number of APM specialists, or it does not have the time and resources available to spend on these kind of technology developments, it would be helpful if there were out-of-the-box solutions available from the platform. I would certainly consider that, because that would make us go to market much faster, rather than redeveloping our own solutions based on those APIs."

"The integration of the tools is getting there. It is still not there yet, because we still have to get a lot of tools to put together."

"For the user, for the customer, they expect a solution to be not so expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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 solution is no more expensive than other products."

"It is costly for small and medium businesses."

"We found a tool that can be utilized by testing, DevOps, marketing, software engineering, and monitoring. Before, we always had everybody doing their own thing. Now, everybody's utilizing one tool, which is huge. That is a huge savings."

"I think the pricing is at a fair value for what it is."

"We are buying more licenses, because we are seeing more value."

"I have not been able to observe more than 1% overhead, despite Dynatrace saying that it can be slightly higher in some situations."

"The limitations I see are more to do - and maybe it's because of the nature of the job I have - but they have to do with pricing. It's a little bit pricey. It's a very good tool. It's worth the price, to a certain degree. But it's hard to justify when it's that costly."

"The solution has saved us money through the consolidation of tools. With a hybrid landscape, we had multiple tools. When we consolidated, we removed four or five other monitoring tools with one. For the last ROI calculation that I did, Dynatrace was saving us up to $500,000 per year."

"Licensing is very interesting, as you pay only for what is being monitored. A lot of things are given away for no additional cost. If you have a great IT consolidation, it will be pretty cheap. If you have a lot of servers, it will be heavier."

"There are additional Professional Services costs which ensure the solution is configured with meaningful names so you're getting the most money for your investment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

12%

Performing Arts

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

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	80
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	300

Questions from the Community

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...

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...

What is your primary use case for Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse?

We are the partner of Riverbed. Once any customer buys the Riverbed product, we deploy and configure it to meet their use cases. Alluvio AppResponse can identify if a page or an application is slow...

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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Also Known As

Riverbed AppResponse, OPNET SteelCentral AppResponse, ACE Live, OPNET, AppResponse Xpert

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Overview

Alluvio AppResponse offers comprehensive performance monitoring and visibility for applications, servers, and networks. It captures network traffic and provides analytics, integrated with tools such as Wireshark and Riverbed Transaction Analyzer, aiding in identifying errors and enhancing data analysis.

Alluvio AppResponse is an advanced system designed for detailed monitoring of performance metrics across diverse IT environments. It effectively captures, analyzes, and reports on network traffic, providing valuable insights into application and server response times. With integration capabilities for tools like Wireshark, it allows users to delve deeper into network performance issues. AI and ML functionalities help in identifying TCP retransmits, web access times, and server-side errors, though there is a need for improved integration with other technologies and enhanced security features. Pricing and technical support responsiveness also present challenges. Often deployed near core switches, it's a preferred choice for enterprises looking to analyze application response times and ensure robust application manager visibility, helping to define traffic and applications effectively.

What are the standout features of Alluvio AppResponse?

Performance Monitoring: Tracks performance metrics of applications, servers, and networks in real-time.
Network Traffic Capture: Captures detailed network traffic data for analysis and troubleshooting.
Tool Integration: Works seamlessly with Wireshark and Riverbed Transaction Analyzer for comprehensive analysis.
AI and ML Insights: Utilizes AI and ML to identify TCP retransmits and server-side errors.
Intuitive Interface: Facilitates efficient data gathering and analysis with a user-friendly design.

What benefits should users expect from Alluvio AppResponse?

In-Depth Analytics: Offers robust data analytics for better decision-making.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs with scalable modules.
Strategic Metrics: Supports effective troubleshooting through strategic metric analysis.

Alluvio AppResponse finds its applications across various industries including government departments, enterprise data centers, and public sector institutions. It's particularly valuable for monitoring application performance and capacity, analyzing packet captures, and ensuring visibility between servers and end users. Deployed near core switches, it assists organizations in identifying network performance issues and optimizing their IT operations.

Riverbed

Dynatrace offers AI-driven root cause analysis, full-stack observability, and more. Its seamless integration and automated alerts enhance operational efficiency for application performance monitoring across diverse environments.

Dynatrace provides users with comprehensive tools for proactive monitoring, leveraging AI-powered insights to detect bottlenecks and monitor user behavior. It enhances system dependency visualization via Smartscape and offers deep transaction insights through PurePath. Session Replay captures real user experiences, while custom dashboards emphasize essential metrics. Integration capabilities and seamless deployment are key, though users face challenges with navigation, integration, and licensing. Enhancing third-party training tools and optimizing real-time AI diagnostics is desired, with demands for better database monitoring reports and simpler UI.

What are Dynatrace's key features?

AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis: Identifies issues with precision.
Full-Stack Observability: Monitors across all platforms.
Smartscape: Visualizes system dependencies.
PurePath: Provides transaction flow insights.
Session Replay: Captures user interactions.
Custom Dashboards: Focuses on essential metrics.
Automated Alerts: Minimizes downtime.

What benefits should users consider?

Operational Efficiency: Enhances performance management.
Seamless Deployment: Reduces manual intervention.
Integration Capabilities: Ensures smooth system coexistence.
User Experience Insights: Tracks behavior and reliability.

Dynatrace is implemented in industries like finance for monitoring infrastructure and user experience. In manufacturing, it helps ensure system reliability. Its AI-driven approach is crucial for cloud deployments, supporting performance optimization and proactive monitoring.

Sample Customers

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

Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express