Pico Corvil Analytics Reviews

Name: Pico Corvil Analytics
Brand: PICO
Rating: 4.5 (9 reviews)

Vendor: PICO

4.5 out of 5

9 reviews
100% willing to recommend

603 followers

What is Pico Corvil Analytics?

Corvil transforms Network Data with speed and precision into the powerful real-time truth. Corvil captures, decodes, reassembles, and enriches vast amounts of data in motion, adding analytics and making the resulting enriched data and IT Operations Analytics available to humans, machines and other systems.

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Pico Corvil Analytics is the #46 ranked solution in best Network Monitoring Tools. PeerSpot users give Pico Corvil Analytics an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 9 most recent Pico Corvil Analytics reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.1. Pico Corvil Analytics is most commonly compared to Datadog: Pico Corvil Analytics vs Datadog. Pico Corvil Analytics is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 53% of all views.

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Ted Hruzd

Founder at AI Fit LLC

The creation of charts and real-time windows was somewhat cumbersome. The vendor's website had an application called App Agent that required improvement. This API was designed to track message rates between microservers ingested into a microservice memory map. It allowed users to monitor the number of transactions that occurred at specific points within the application, and it was quite impressive. However, it had some limitations, and it mainly served as a tool for basic tracking. The protocols it employed could reveal the type of server-to-server communication and the specific order types, but it was not able to provide a more in-depth analysis of the application. The vendor has the potential to integrate application metrics more extensively into their product suite. The product suite could benefit from more out-of-the-box predictive analytics capabilities, such as projecting market or symbol movements. However, it is unclear whether the vendor currently provides this functionality. Users may need to adjust their software to perform such analysis independently.

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Srini Venkatesan

Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

What is most valuable is the ability to troubleshoot when a client complains of spikes in latencies. It gives us the ability to go granular, all the way down to looking at the network packets and analyze them. Regarding the analytics features, the good part is that it's not just the networking folks who are able to get an in-depth view of the client latency measurements. The business can also take a look and actively participate by looking at them. The front end of Corvil makes it appealing in terms of the ease of navigation and giving them an inside picture of what's going on with their clients. We just use the basic, core features of Corvil. I know Corvil offers a lot more. As a company, we don't have too many experienced people who are able to write Corvil-specific stuff to make it more advantageous or useful.

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Ralph Muro

Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of performance analysis, if you really want to dig down into the minutiae and get statistics on the important things to the folks who want this data - such as: How is our system doing overall? How is each, individual component running? What are the statistics there? What are the statistics for a particular client session? What are the statistics for a trading object, a given symbol? If you look at any one of those things, individually, they're all equally great, but you have to choose how deep you want to go. That would be the only piece lacking because, in our environment, we have thousands and thousands of symbols. With the architecture that Corvil is built on, it's cumbersome. I would like to see more visualization. I know they have a product they've been working on called iHub, which is supposed to address a lot of the business visualization needs and analytics. It sounds like it's going to be a good solution. Once they get their hands around it will probably complete their product. The latest version of their visualizations has been a huge upgrade over what it used to be and, but - and these are not just my own thoughts, they come from conversations I've had with them - their future products will handle all of the types of roll-ups and data-pivoting that their current system doesn't do that well.

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Pico Corvil Analytics mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Pico Corvil Analytics in the Network Monitoring Software category stands at 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"As part of my role in monitoring multiple client connections, I would use Pico Corvil Analytics to set up alerts for performance issues, such as TCP resends and dropped packets. These alerts would trigger when the volume was low and performance was poor, allowing me to work with our trading partners to find a resolution. I would present them with the statistics I had and together, we would identify the source of the issue. This collaboration resulted in the client often reconfiguring their systems. For example, we may find that a network connection needed to be made. Overall, this proactive approach helped to maintain strong connections with our clients and minimize disruptions to trading revenue."
"We're able to quickly drill down and find answers to events that are happening in real-time, using Corvil's analytics tools. That's the feature which is most in the spotlight..."
"What is most valuable is the ability to troubleshoot when a client complains of spikes in latencies. It gives us the ability to go granular, all the way down to looking at the network packets and analyze them."

Room for Improvement

"The creation of charts and real-time windows was somewhat cumbersome. The vendor's website had an application called App Agent that required improvement. This API was designed to track message rates between microservers ingested into a microservice memory map. It allowed users to monitor the number of transactions that occurred at specific points within the application, and it was quite impressive. However, it had some limitations, and it mainly served as a tool for basic tracking. The protocols it employed could reveal the type of server-to-server communication and the specific order types, but it was not able to provide a more in-depth analysis of the application. The vendor has the potential to integrate application metrics more extensively into their product suite."
"In terms of performance analysis, if you really want to dig down into the minutiae and get statistics on the important things... that would be the only piece lacking because, in our environment, we have thousands and thousands of symbols. With the architecture that Corvil is built on, it's cumbersome."
"Overall, the Corvil device needs a little bit of training for people to handle it. If that could be reduced and made more user-friendly, more intuitive, it would be better."

Pricing

Pico Corvil Analytics is considered expensive compared to its competitors. It may face challenges in selling to trading firms as there are alternative solutions available that can perform similar basic operations. However, Pico Corvil Analytics offers a comprehensive and automated depth of metrics and correlations that surpasses these alternatives.

"Pico Corvil Analytics is expensive. There are several competitors in the market. Selling this solution to a trading firm might be challenging as there are several other solutions available that can perform basic similar operations, such as using Wireshark and Python scripts to obtain the required values. However, that does not nearly approach the comprehensive end-2-end automated depth of metrics and their correlations that Pico Corvil Analytics provides."
"We bought a box from Corvil and it was $200,000 for one big CNE. Then there are obviously the recurring maintenance fees. The licensing is perpetual but the maintenance fees are not."
"As I am working more with Corvil, it looks like it is improving diagnostic times."