Directory Observability & MonitoringAPM & Distributed TracingAternity (now Riverbed)

Aternity (now Riverbed)

About Aternity (now Riverbed)

It integrates with Aternity DEX to link detected issues to underlying transactions, services, or dependencies. It supports cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premises architectures, including Kubernetes and microservices.

Products

Riverbed APM+: Captures every transaction across applications for observability in IT operations.
Riverbed Aternity: Provides digital experience intelligence showing how applications perform for real users.
Riverbed IQ: Analyzes signals across the IT ecosystem to recommend action and automate response.

Used for

Tracing execution across web, services, code, and databases.
Correlating application behavior with infrastructure and user experience data.
Ingesting OpenTelemetry data alongside existing agents.
Expanding observability coverage across more applications.
Finding root cause of application issues.

Who it is for

Built for IT operations teams.

From Aternity (now Riverbed)'s own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.

How to evaluate APM & Distributed Tracing

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Aternity (now Riverbed). It comes from our Observability & APM Platforms buyer guide.

22%

Telemetry Coverage & Correlation

Unified metrics, traces, logs, real-user monitoring, synthetics, and continuous profiling; automatic correlation across signals; service maps and topology; Kubernetes, container, serverless, and cloud-provider auto-discovery; breadth and quality of the integration catalog

22%

Cost Control, Cardinality & Data Governance

Pricing-unit transparency and overage terms; high-cardinality handling without runaway cost; ingest-time filtering, sampling, aggregation, and tiered retention; a native or compatible telemetry pipeline; per-team budgets, quotas, and chargeback visibility so spend is governable, not just observable

20%

Distributed Tracing & APM Depth

End-to-end trace correlation across services and async boundaries, tail-based and adaptive sampling, code-level and method-level profiling, error tracking and exception grouping, database and dependency visibility, and frictionless OpenTelemetry trace ingestion alongside any native agent

16%

AIOps, Anomaly Detection & Root Cause

Quality of automated anomaly detection and alert noise reduction, causal versus correlative root-cause analysis, forecasting and capacity signals, and emerging agentic remediation — judged on accuracy during a real incident, not on the marketing name of the AI engine

12%

OpenTelemetry & Openness

Depth of native OTel support (traces, metrics, logs) versus a proprietary agent; whether collection is genuinely vendor-neutral or quietly locks you in; query-language portability; export and data-egress freedom; and how much re-instrumentation a future migration would actually require

Scale, Reliability & Operability

Proven performance at your peak event and series volumes, multi-region availability and platform SLA, data-retention options, RBAC and SSO, and — if self-hosted — the operational burden of running and upgrading the backend at high cardinality

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Quick Facts

www.aternity.com/application-performance-monitoring Pricing page

CategoryObservability & Monitoring

SubcategoryAPM & Distributed Tracing

Deploymentcloud-native, hybrid, on-prem

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