# AppNeta Reviews
**Vendor:** Broadcom  
**Category:** [Network Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-monitoring)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 12
## About AppNeta
AppNeta is the only network performance monitoring solution that analyzes network data through a 4-Dimensional lens, delivering actionable, end-to-end insights from the end-user perspective. With AppNeta’s SaaS-based solution, IT and Network Ops teams at large, distributed enterprises can quickly pinpoint issues that affect network and business-critical cloud application performance, regardless of where they occur. AppNeta is trusted by some of the biggest Fortune 1000 companies, including 3 out of the 5 largest corporations in the world, as well as 4 out of the 5 largest cloud providers. For more information, visit www.appneta.com.




## AppNeta Reviews
  ### 1. Network performance management tool.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Matthew C. | Senior QA Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

It is designed for cloud-connected distributed, digital enterprises and used for monitoring app performance. It allows IT teams to continuously monitor the user experience beyond the data center, app, cloud, or network. It has many advanced features such as advanced filters, error reporting, and distributed transactions. It is easy to set up and use. It provides deployment flexibility with virtual and physical monitoring points. It provides insight into internal and external network performance to enhance delivery app delivery. It uses methodologies that enable deep diagnostics and provides a real-time view of the end-user experience.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

The implementation requires strong network bandwidth. So, you cannot use the tool if you have a slow internet connection. The free trials are not available. Graphs need to be improved. The training videos are not much helpful and you have to work with a support person to understand it completely and find the correct information.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It provides a feature "Trace View" to determine trends in performance quickly. It assists to isolate, fix or track the outliers affecting the performance of the application. The web interface is very easy to use. The custom dashboard is easy to understand, provides a wide variety of statistics regarding the app under review, and provides all things regarding network analysis. It is the best tool to identify performance bottlenecks. It provides insights into service performance from a target user point of view. It is a flexible solution and can be deployed into the cloud and on-premise. It eliminates the need for expensive overhead and covers all the bases of infrastructure.

  ### 2. Application that offers the pragmatic observation of SaaS vendors.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dezzy L. | Marketing Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

This product can consume the high internet speed so always contain the connectivity and networking for using this application because its installation is necessary for full working. There should be some free trials to discover its characteristics but it’s quite expensive to purchase so, people hesitate to purchase this software.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

This product can consume the high internet speed so always contain the connectivity and networking for using this application because its installation is necessary for full working. There should be some free trials to discover its characteristics but it’s quite expensive to purchase so, people hesitate to purchase this software.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

AppNeta is used to monitor the SaaS-based applications on the cloud and it helps us to provide the full supervision of every file and folder to locate the project. Hence, we are amazed to watch its working to protect the high ends and also provides help in decoding the files in the system. It's a lot more beneficial to understand its feature first before buying this software for unlimited benefits. Everything is easy and uncomplicated and we can do our routine work by using this application.

  ### 3. Best Tool for Network Monitoring and Trouble shooting

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Santosh K. | Program Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2020

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

Best user Interface. One can easily create the WebPaths with no coding knowledge.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

Graphs can be improved more to get the Best Experience out of it.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

boost up your Network performance with AppNeta

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have 20 Monitoring point around world. We have been monitoring the Networks from a central location which helps us in Trouble shooting.

  ### 4. Its a great tool to look at bottle necks in your network and also your traffic usage .

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

I really like the interface and easy setup and the ability to test networks.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

Has potential to add more features, also implementation.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

great troubleshooting tool one whould have

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Troubleshooting network performance & bottlenecks in the network.

  ### 5. AppNeta assessment tool that works

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

I like the support at AppNeta they are very helpful and knowledgeable of the product. I find that it is easy to setup the unit in no time

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

The training for the product it is not as easy to find the answers you want. You need to work with a support person in order to find the right information. There E-learning is not as great and they need to run more videos to show what their product can do

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

I reccommend to use their support as often as you like because the courses that are available are not always directly related to the assessment you are trying to do.  The product is easy to deploy but you must read all the documentation for the proper positioning of the unit

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am currently trying to find out why a client is experiencing jitter and clipping on all their calls. I am narrowing it down to a certain point in the hope that I can find out why it is happening

  ### 6. AppNeta: Best Tool For Monitoring Application Performance

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2019

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

AppNeta is a cloud based tool used for monitoring application performance. It helps to monitor our application. It has many advance features like advаnсеd filters, Distributed Transaction Tracing, Error reporting. It is very easy to use and learn.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

There should be better Documentation.
User interface could be more user friendly.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

Nice tool for application performance monitoring you can go for it.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

AppNeta is  a very powerful tool for application performance monitoring

  ### 7. Appneta a great and affordable tool

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

I have a M30 Network monitoring device and it is a great piece of hardware. It does everything that I want it to do

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

I would like to see videos of the product on how to set it up correctly. I find some of the support documents do not make sense until someone shows you it. Also when searching documentation you have to be very specific what you are looking for

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

They are very good on providing support, I have opened numerous tickets and they are very good at working with me. Some of the reporting is not clear but I have a pretty strong relationship that they are willing to take the time and effort to work with them.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I do a lot of voice assessments and I need to verify if the customer's network is ready for voice so I am able to use the unit to run simulated tests. I had an issue with bandwidth at one site and I was able to verify that the carrier did not provide the proper bandwidth for my site

  ### 8. Use to monitor multiple cloud deployments.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2019

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

AppNeta performance manager is a complete monitoring tool.It is used in IT industry for monitoring multiple cloud deployements and also solve cloud application problems.This tool is very flexible in terms of performance level.Its also provide deployment flexibility with physical and virtual monitoring points.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

As the monitoring increases the interface can become hard to manage.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

Use this tool till the best it will definetly help you in all yours needs.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

This tool provides deployment flexibility.

  ### 9. AppNeta is the one stop shop for network monitoring

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Adam O. | Senior Critical Situation Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2017

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

I like the features and functionality as well as the easy to use web interface

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

Not that it is bad, but there are a lot of options that are, sometime, hard to understand.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

Absolutely see a demo and test the product in your network environment.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Solving over-utilization and/or firewall issues as well as voice quality issues.

  ### 10. Multi-site wide area and network performance management suite

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** João F. | Head Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

One of my favorite features is the TraceView. It provides code-level, deep-request tracing for 90 days of operational data from all major development platforms, including, Java, the Microsoft .NET Framework, Ruby, Python and PHP. Performance issues at any layer in the software stack can be seen quickly.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

Even though there are 4 different views (Trace, App, Flow, Path), I feel that many of those informations sometimes could cross views.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

AppNeta is one of a number of application performance monitoring tools that offers the capabilities to gather the needed operational and machine data to keep things running. If anomalies appear, the tools offer predictive analysis to quickly discover the root cause.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

AppNeta has been delivering a "full stack" application performance monitoring tool that makes it possible for IT administrators or DevOps to quickly see what's going on with their applications, and drill down to see details at every level of the stack.

  ### 11. Serious candidate for application performance monitoring

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

1) AppNeta provides easy to start workflows. These are useful to get started and understand integrating of monitoring platform with web application.
2) In particular, TraceView helps to quickly identify trends in the performance. It helps to track, isolate or fix the outliers affecting application performance. The ability to monitor the application at all levels in the application stack is amazing. 
3) Dashboard UI is quite easy to understand and provides a wide range of statistics about application under review.

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

1) It is a very difficult to understand product. 
2) Documentation could be better. Some of the features require detailed steps for set up.
3) As the number of features supported is large, the learning curve can be steep.

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

Definitely use the trial to evaluate whether it adds value for you, but it would be surprising if you could find a tool that does everything that AppNeta does.

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

While prototyping Twitter sentiment analysis project, I used AppNeta to monitor performance of our web applications. We also wrote User Interface(UI) test cases using selenium and tracked the performance of application by collecting tweets from multiple users located residing at different locations. 
Database APIs were also tracked to find out performance bottlenecks.

Here are some of the useful and necessary features supported by AppNeta:
- Advanced visualization with filtering and drill-down, 
- Distributed Transaction Tracing 
- Error reporting at every layer
- Unlimited machine level metric collection and charting


  ### 12. All in one solution

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tony T. | Master Test Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2016

**What do you like best about AppNeta?**

- All in one solution for all applications
- SaaS based solutions
- Great for identifying performance bottlenecks easily

**What do you dislike about AppNeta?**

- Documentation is severely lacking.  The tool is extremly robust and I feel that I have only scratched the surface due to lack of knowledge.
- Expensive

**Recommendations to others considering AppNeta:**

Make sure you have experience implementing a performance solution because it will come in extremely helpful. 

**What problems is AppNeta solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are trying to identify performance issues on our production server for Web Services application of both inbound and outbound transfers.


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## AppNeta Features
**Functionality**
- Performance Monitoring
- Alerting
- Improvement Suggestions
- Multi-Network Capability

**Monitoring - Network Monitoring**
- 360-Degree Network Visibility
- Automated Network Discovery
- Real-Time Monitoring

**Management**
- Performance Baseline
- Data Visualization
- Path Analysis

**Analytics - Network Monitoring**
- Predictive Performance Analytics
- Packet & Flow Analysis

**Security - Network Monitoring**
- Encrypted Data Transmission
- Zero Trust and Identity Management
- Integrated Network Security

**Network Performance - Network Monitoring**
- Dynamic Network Optimization
- Automated Tasks Routing

**AI Automation - Network Monitoring**
- Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection
- Self-Healing Networks
- Predictive Network Maintenance

**Agentic AI - Network Monitoring**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

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