#1 most frequent
United States of America
59.9%106 installations of 177
What is Riverbed Aternity?
Riverbed Aternity delivers AI-enabled insights based on real end user experience data and high-fidelity telemetry across endpoints, application, infrastructure and network.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Riverbed Aternity
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
12.4%22 installations of 177
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.1%9 installations of 177
Modern Automation Solution for Intensive Monitoring
Pros
- Provides holistic view of system performance
- Stability index for each server being monitored
Cons
- The tool demands High CPU resources to perform monitoring which reduces the overall performance and the user experience is sluggish
- Also a good amount of training is required to set up the different use cases and monitoring parameters which in return demands a dedicated resource to work on the tool
Most Important Features
- Device performance management
- Health monitoring of multiple servers at different user defined intervals
Return on Investment
- Helped us drive automation for the client
- Generation of detailed reports for monitoring activity performed
- Overall improvement in compliance and risk management for servers
- Drive operational efficiency across the project
Other Software Used
Dynatrace
Monitoring with Aternity
Pros
- Functionality to create custom monitoring workflow for each business application
- Detailed analytics for each monitoring
- Automated scripts for performing different user defined actions
Cons
- Cost gets increased with the increase in complexities of the monitoring tasks
- Apart from cost, no challenge faced from the tool.
Most Important Features
- Data quality
- Auto alert trigger for business process threshold violation
- Monitoring based on app crash hangs, page load and wait time
Return on Investment
- Improve user relations and experience
- Overall improvement in business process agility
Other Software Used
BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)
The best experience in application monitoring.
Pros
- Try to end application downtime.
- Optimize and improve troubleshooting.
- Detect and identify existing problems.
Cons
- A little complicated at first to use.
- We found it a bit slow to give the answers.
Return on Investment
- An overall improvement in transaction performance.
- Improved security because of the excellent monitoring that is performed.
Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Dynatrace Application Monitoring and AppDynamics
Other Software Used
Cisco Nexus, Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Dell EMC VxBlock System
Pricey but worth it
Pros
- Root cause finding/remediation (it goes beyond analysis).
- Shows latency between applications and servers.
- Identifies long-running SQL queries, and puts the onus back on developers to clean up their SQL code.
Cons
- Cost - Riverbed is really proud of their products, and the price shows.
- More "point and click" repair opportunities.
- Integration with Cisco DNA, tell which devices could have issues based upon the IOS version, etc.
Return on Investment
- Immediate ROI by finding long-running SQL queries and putting the onus back on the developer to tighten their code (IE - It's not the network!).
- Root cause finding (This goes beyond analysis). Riverbed was great at finding where problems were hiding so we didn't have to do too much hunting. I can estimate that there were 2-300 man-hours saved on one project alone.
- I spent more time convincing my client they needed this than I did in resolving their issues. This was a serious win for my client and for me.
Alternatives Considered
AppDynamics
AppInternals - High Quality Full Stack Digging
Pros
- Full stack visibility into application data is excellent.
- Transaction element is very detailed and extremely helpful in diagnosing issues.
- The support element from Riverbed has been great, including the turn around time for the few issues we had.
Cons
- We found the platform slightly costly for the return. Having tried multiple products this was the best of the lot.
- We did find a few applications where the diagnostic data wasn't overly insightful.
Return on Investment
- We were able to pinpoint app stack issues within the first days and issues we weren't aware of. Changes were made and the performance has been enhanced greatly since and this is due to AppInternals.
- The ability to drill into the diagnostic data is second to none. Pinpoints exactly where issues are and this saves troubleshooting time.
- By implementing AppInternals against the Dev environments, it also allowed future releases to be accelerated and be deployed cleaner and faster.
Alternatives Considered
New Relic and AppDynamics
Other Software Used
AppDynamics, New Relic
