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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Dynatrace and Alluvio Aternity are two competing products in the application performance management space. Dynatrace seems to have the upper hand due to its usability, features, and cost-effectiveness.

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

Dynatrace users appreciate the AI-driven insights, end-to-end monitoring, and intuitive automated features. Alluvio Aternity users value its deep-dive analytics, real-time diagnostics, and detailed data analysis capabilities.

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

Dynatrace could improve its integration flexibility, lower setup complexity, and enhance reporting. Alluvio Aternity needs to streamline its user experience, upgrade reporting tools, and simplify deployment.

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

Dynatrace is praised for its smoother deployment and responsive customer support. Alluvio Aternity receives mixed reviews for deployment complexity but is commended for its proactive support team.

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

Dynatrace users find the initial setup cost justified by the quick ROI. Alluvio Aternity users experience higher setup costs but appreciate the long-term return on investment.

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Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Alluvio Aternity enhances visibility and reduces debugging time, offering cost savings, though returns vary with usage and scale.

Sentiment score

6.6

Dynatrace enhances ROI by improving application stability, reducing downtime, and increasing efficiency, leading to substantial financial savings.

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Using Dynatrace directly improved application uptime and reduced customer impacting incidents.

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

ROI is hard to specify; however, incidents like impending ransomware attacks highlight its value, though those are exceptional events.

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Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

Save money by identifying problems, thereby reducing monetary losses on their application side.

Abednego Petrus

Technical Manager, Consulting at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

9.0

Alluvio Aternity's customer service and technical support are praised for responsiveness, skill, professionalism, and seamless transition from Riverbed.

Sentiment score

7.1

Dynatrace's customer support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and efficient chat-based help, enhancing overall user experience.

Riverbed's support is good in terms of response time and knowledge.

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

I would rate the technical support from Riverbed as nine out of ten.

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Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

They have a good reputation, and the support is commendable.

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

The technical support from Dynatrace is excellent.

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Whenever we faced any issues, we could get timely resolution from their support.

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

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.5

Alluvio Aternity efficiently scales to 100,000 endpoints, offering seamless growth with high user satisfaction and minimal maintenance challenges.

Sentiment score

7.1

Dynatrace efficiently scales across environments, handling large deployments and diverse enterprise needs, though costs can rise with scaling.

Alluvio Aternity and Nexthink are both scalable solutions that work well with large organizations of over 100,000 users globally.

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

If it's an enterprise, increasing the number of instances doesn’t pose problems.

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

It is a powerful tool and helped us to reduce customer downtime and increase work efficiency.

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

The scalability of Dynatrace is very significant, especially considering the current improvements in their features.

Abednego Petrus

Technical Manager, Consulting at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.6

Alluvio Aternity offers stable performance with minimal downtimes, swift issue resolution, and high reliability enhanced by robust cloud infrastructure.

Sentiment score

7.6

Dynatrace is highly stable and reliable, offering low system impact, regular updates, and dependable monitoring and alerting.

Stability is not the deciding factor; it is more about how a tool fits the use case and integrates at an enterprise level.

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

Generally, all are stable at ninety-nine point nine nine percent, but if the underlying infrastructure is not deployed correctly, stability may be problematic.

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

There have been no stability issues with Dynatrace.

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System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Dynatrace is a SaaS product with frequent agent management updates.

Anil Kumar-AIOK

Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Room For Improvement

Alluvio Aternity requires simpler interfaces, improved custom reporting, flexible licensing, better integrations, and enhanced data visualization features.

Dynatrace users seek improved session replay, UI, documentation, reporting, integration, licensing clarity, network compatibility, and more responsive support.

The integration of AI agents could enhance these tools further, replacing traditional agents and plugins.

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

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 multiple agents installed on their endpoint machines.

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Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.

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Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

Dynatrace could enhance cost and licensing structures, as the current pricing can be expensive for large-scale deployments.

Vaibhav Karad

BizOps Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I'm specifically looking at AIOps and how we can monitor AIOps-related things, considering we have LLMs and all that stuff.

reviewer1246755

Performance Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Setup Cost

Alluvio Aternity offers valuable analytics but can be costly; negotiation, setup and training influence overall investment significantly.

Dynatrace pricing is costly due to complex licensing, though its features and flexible pricing can justify the expense.

Riverbed is costly in the Indian market

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Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Your initial investment in licensing costs pales in comparison to the question of why you would charge a license fee and usage for a tool if you are going to be three times higher in processing the data you are sending via the agents.

Brad Dyke

DSRE Director Of Dev Ops/Operations (Management Executive) at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Dynatrace is known to be costly, which delayed its integration into our system.

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

If setting up in a large scale environment, it is overwhelming because it is expensive.

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

Valuable Features

Alluvio Aternity provides detailed monitoring and analysis, allowing IT teams to optimize performance and user experience effectively.

Dynatrace excels with AI-driven anomaly detection, user monitoring, seamless integrations, enhancing observability, performance insights, and operational efficiency.

Alluvio Aternity provides predictive analysis and trend analysis for IT teams to evaluate the performance of hardware and applications.

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

The reporting part of Alluvio Aternity is good; it is granular, user-friendly, and easy to use.

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Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

The integration with Power BI for generating detailed reports is a standout feature.

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System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Dynatrace's AI-driven Davis engine absolutely helps identify performance issues by showing root cause analysis for us up to 200%; whatever is integrated, if it is visible, it can stitch and show.

reviewer1935579

Technical Associate at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Dynatrace links compute with services and services with code and other components.

Anil Kumar-AIOK

Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

35th

Ranking in Mobile APM

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (8th)

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Ranking in Mobile APM

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

363

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (7th), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (1st), AI Observability (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio Aternity is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dynatrace is 4.9%, down from 8.1% 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	4.9%
Alluvio Aternity	0.9%
Other	94.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Q&A Highlights

it_user469245

Works

Oct 12, 2023

APM tools for a Managed Service Provider - Dynatrace vs. AppDynamics vs. Aternity vs. Ruxit

We did a trial of the Dynatrace vs AppDynamics vs New Relic Real User Monitoring tools and based on this we selected New Relic, mainly because of their powerful Insights tool that easily allows you to create your own dashboards / alert using a variant of SQL. Since we acquired the RUM tool (Browser) we have trialled their APM tool which we are currently appraising vs our existing CA APM tool (Introscope) - early signs are encouraging for New Relic. After 9 months we have found the New Relic tools that we use to be very useful and they have excellent post implementation support. Being SAAS only has not been an issue, and for example on Black Friday their tools did not slowdown at all.

Featured Reviews

Monitoring end-user activity has improved visibility into device and application performance

Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

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 multiple agents installed on their endpoint machines. Deploying multiple agents can use the processor and utilize memory, so it's better to go with one agent. If one agent can do end-user activity monitoring and act as an EDR, then it would be better for the end-user, allowing easy avoidance of installing multiple agents on their machines.

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Vinothkumar Sugumar

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Unified dashboards have provided end-to-end visibility and now streamline API latency troubleshooting

I think Dynatrace can be improved in dashboard creation, as this is the face of a product. Although Dynatrace may have many things, new users typically do not know the whole power of the product. To onboard new people, it would be beneficial to provide template dashboards or suggested dashboards. Organizations working with microservice architecture will follow some templates, so suggesting simple, hand-picked features that are really helpful could make a difference. Quick configurable and customizable templates would be very useful. Whenever they come into the product, they can use this template and feel that their product is applied to it. Immediately, they will think everything is online and can improve easily. This base can be provided in template form. Since Dynatrace has a lot of features now, the AI integration makes it simple, but the product itself is very huge. To understand and utilize it, maybe it would be good to index the essential features.

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Answers from the Community

it_user469245

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Oct 12, 2023

APM tools for a Managed Service Provider - Dynatrace vs. AppDynamics vs. Aternity vs. Ruxit

2 out of 72 answers

it_user276735

Solution Consultant at dynaTrace Software at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Jun 29, 2016

I would be happy to provide assistance. Both Ruxit and Dynatrace AppMon are Dynatrace solutions. If you could provide a list of requirements for your solution I would be happy to provide more information Ken Silber | Senior Sales Engineer | APM Certified Associate kenneth.silber@dynatrace.com | M: +347 620 8208 _______________________________________________________________ Dynatrace.com | LinkedIn | Twitter

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it_user374523

Account Executive at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jun 29, 2016

Yes, I can help. They should be looking at AppNeta. -Mike

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

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	81
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	303

Questions from the Community

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.

What needs improvement with Aternity?

What is your primary use case for Aternity?

The main use case for Alluvio Aternity is end-user activity monitoring, which is the process I'm mainly using currently.

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

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity

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Overview

Alluvio Aternity offers detailed insights into user experience, device health, and application response times. It provides real-time data and visibility for enhanced performance and incident management with customizable monitoring and flexible integration.

Alluvio Aternity is a robust monitoring tool designed for detailed environmental insights, dashboards, and trend analysis that help optimize application performance and incident management. Users benefit from its real-time data, which aids proactive troubleshooting by providing visibility into end-user devices. Custom dashboards, benchmarks, and flexible Tableau integration facilitate easy data manipulation, ensuring comprehensive monitoring of standard and custom applications. While the interface complexity and desire for simpler monitor building pose challenges, Aternity remains a valuable resource for digital experience monitoring and performance assessment, particularly for platforms like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Office 365.

What are the key features of Alluvio Aternity?

Real-Time Data: Provides immediate visibility into end-user devices for proactive troubleshooting.
Custom Dashboards: Allows creation of tailored dashboards for performance evaluation.
Trend Analysis: Offers insight into application performance trends to help optimize operations.
Flexible Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Tableau for versatile data manipulation.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Covers both standard and custom applications for wide-ranging insights.

What benefits should users look for when evaluating Alluvio Aternity?

Enhanced Performance: Real-time data aids in improving application and device performance.
Proactive Troubleshooting: Immediate insights enable quicker response to issues.
Custom Monitoring: Tailored dashboards and monitoring cater to unique operational needs.
Flexible Data Use: Integration with tools like Tableau allows for effective data use and analysis.

Enterprises across industries leverage Alluvio Aternity for end-user activity monitoring and application performance assessment. They use its insights for digital experience monitoring and problem isolation, particularly in environments including remote sites and retail branches, measuring key metrics like CPU and memory usage.

Riverbed

Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Sample Customers

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

TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money