We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Alluvio Aternity based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is a more comprehensive monitoring tool than Alluvio Aternity, offering infrastructure dependency mapping and network devices' performance monitoring. While Alluvio Aternity provides valuable machine health and performance data, it lacks code-level monitoring and software-defined network monitoring capability. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the preferred solution.
"It is a tool that helps me check users' computers really quickly without having a help desk administrator logging in and doing analysis. Anyone who has access to Aternity, including our support team, can log onto Aternity and do a quick, basic analysis."
"Desktop monitoring, and being able to understand the performance of applications that runs on the desktop."
"The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."
"It is useful for working out whether there are any issues in the network or between the endpoints. It is also useful for working out any performance issues. It has been useful for a lot of stuff around Teams. Our customers like to know what's happening with Teams when they call in. It is helpful for easily profiling users. It records all the applications that are being used for each user, and you can see what users are doing. It is very good in terms of performance. You don't have to wait forever to try and get reports or results. It is quite quick to get everything that you need out of the software."
"The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us."
"The ability to quickly utilize the dashboard to gather information is valuable from a DXI perspective."
"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature. It is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory. We can go in-depth into services and processes."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"Integrating the tool with other products is a challenge."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"I want more reporting around asset management, with greater flexibility and customization ability."
"The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions."
"I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia."
"I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great."
"The licensing model doesn't suit the market we are in and has room for improvement."
"Their technical support should be improved in terms of response time. Its stability should also be better. We are currently using version 10, and its stability is not so high. The server crashes from time to time and needs to be restarted. Sometimes, you also have problems with applications."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
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Alluvio Aternity is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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