NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs. Riverbed Aternity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Score 9.1 out of 10
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NETSCOUT’s nGeniousONE is a platform designed to monitor enterprise-level networks. It includes standard monitoring capabilities, as well as advanced inspection and analytics features.N/A
Riverbed Aternity
Score 5.0 out of 10
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Riverbed Aternity delivers AI-enabled insights based on real end user experience data and high-fidelity telemetry across endpoints, application, infrastructure and network.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is the best solution which we have encountered so far. The best part about this is that it can be integrated with various third party tool for more visibility and behavior analysis. The dashboard is loaded with a lot of useful features which gives the …
Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
They are different as one is more used for network config management and SNMP polling. Netscout is more of a packet level, metadata, baselining troubleshooting tool. Both I’d recommend but for different purposes.
Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
SolarWinds provides better modularity, improving your ROI by paying only for what you need as opposed to paying for the entire suite whether you need it or not. It also seems to be much more intuitive. However, I'm not sure that it provides packet capturing functionality for …
Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
In some of the aspects, Extrahop is a little similar to Netscout however Extrahop is a real-time performance monitoring tool doesn't provide the functionality to look back to the history data by providing the storage for network capturing data (pcap). Maybe it's just that the …
Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Wireshark has been around for years and has been used primarily for packet analyzing. NetScout does this and goes above and beyond with the graphics interface analyzes and customer filtering for packet analyzes. You can go straight to the packet analyze within NetScout but you …
Chose NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Majority of vendors on the market at the time only handle a piece of network instrumentation. Netscout covered all the bases which meet our company's requirements for "One throat to choke" rule. For the market we are in its nice to have a local team that can be onsite the …
Riverbed Aternity
Chose Riverbed Aternity
The three tools mentioned above are great too. All deliver and fulfill their functionality well. But we chose Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals because we received referrals from other friends who work at other major companies around the world and use this solution and have …
Chose Riverbed Aternity
  • Riverbed is on-premise. I don't have to worry about my agents not connecting to the app dynamics cloud or a cloud agent not working and not updating information.
  • Integration with an already-existing Riverbed appliance that was already on-site and operational.
  • The cost was …
Chose Riverbed Aternity
There is a wide variety of APM solutions out there for companies to pick from. Riverbed AppInternals sits near the top of the stack certainly. We already deploy steelhead units across the estate with client licenses, that aided us in our decision to select AppInternals. We …
Chose Riverbed Aternity
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Features
NETSCOUT nGeniusONERiverbed Aternity
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
8.7
Ratings
6% above category average
Riverbed Aternity
-
Ratings
Automated network device discovery10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Network capacity planning7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
NETSCOUT nGeniusONERiverbed Aternity
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.5
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Usability
6.5
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Support Rating
7.5
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9.1
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User Testimonials
NETSCOUT nGeniusONERiverbed Aternity
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s best for troubleshooting issues that require a packet level analysis. By having source/destination you can have a view into how the packets are traversing the network. If alerts/baselines are set up it can help identify something out of the norm. Very useful for VoIP applications as well. Would not recommend for small scale environments.
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We are a services organization and we use Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals with our customers. It has allowed us to expand the footprint in the application management business with virtually all of our major accounts. We were able to expand and go into other applications that we weren't in or offering previously. Now, we have a new value proposition for our customer enhanced visibility, enhanced stability, and we can reduce our cost to them because our cost structure is reduced by using Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals.
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Pros
  • The graphical interface has to be the key benefit of NetScout. I am more of a packet analyzer but the interface gives the upper levels easier view into the network.
  • The breakdown of sites is useful.
  • The ability of the break the traffic down and go into the packet analyzer straight from the graphical interface. Saves a lot of time writing filters with just simple clicks.
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  • 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.
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Cons
  • Better access to resources
  • Pricing in this niche market is very high, hard for the little guy to take advantage of these solutions
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  • 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.
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Usability
It provides a lot of useful information, but it's not always easy/intuitive to find it. It really needs to get a fully functional API integrated to support automation and integration with other monitoring and analytics tools to enable faster decision making. On the other hand, it gathers a lot of useful information from complex networks that are useful for capacity management and faster incident isolation and resolution.
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Support Rating
We have a dedicated OSE who has been very helpful. Besides that, we have little experience beyond this specific model
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The support I give the highest rating because it is really amazing. Every time we triggered the tool support, we were very well served very quickly and efficiently. The problems were solved quickly and without stress. The staff helped us within minutes and had a lot of patience with us
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Alternatives Considered
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is the best solution which we have encountered so far. The best part about this is that it can be integrated with various third party tool for more visibility and behavior analysis. The dashboard is loaded with a lot of useful features which gives the complete trend analysis of connectivity loss and network flaps and helps to identify the critical sites which is not present in other technology solution. This is an incredible network performance monitoring tool
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The three tools mentioned above are great too. All deliver and fulfill their functionality well. But we chose Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals because we received referrals from other friends who work at other major companies around the world and use this solution and have never had any problems. So for reliability we chose this one
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Return on Investment
  • NetScout nGeniusONE helps to reduce the time and effort (people to involve) to react on network outages, speed up the investigation progress, and much more quickly to identify the root cause.
  • Proactive helps the operation team to identify the underline problems and help the business to take actions before the issue starts to impact the customer's business. Help to reduce the incidents and outages.
  • Help the operation teams to better understand the performance and health of the network from a higher level and end to end perspective, improve the efficiency of work.
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  • 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
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