We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management offers a configuration and manager tool, code-level visibility, transaction monitoring, and a light model for monitoring servers. Datadog provides valuable features like dashboards and reporting, error reporting and log centralization, ease of use and setup, and a wide range of integrations. It also offers flexibility, observability, and the ability to search across logs from various microservices.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could benefit from enhancements in integration, front-end performance, support services, support for current technologies, and user experience monitoring. Datadog requires improvements in usability, integration, agent deployment, documentation, log reporting, dashboard loading time, advanced querying, and tutorials.
Service and Support: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has faced criticism for its technical support, leaving customers unsatisfied and wanting greater assistance. Datadog's customer service and support have garnered varying feedback, with some users finding it helpful and responsive, while others have encountered unresponsive support in specific areas.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with the initial setup of Broadcom, with some finding it quick and simple while others found it to be a lengthier process. The initial setup of Datadog is generally regarded as uncomplicated, with some users even receiving help during the setup.
Pricing: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has a setup cost based on a monthly licensing fee. Users recommend implementing limits on deploying the agent and pricing based on memory or CPU usage. Datadog's pricing and licensing experience differ among users. Some find it expensive while others find it reasonable compared to other solutions. Certain features can become expensive, leading to confusion with the pricing model.
Comparison Results: Datadog is the preferred choice over Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. It stands out for its easy setup, user-friendly interface, and valuable features like dashboards, error reporting, and log centralization. Users find it efficient, flexible, and highly useful for monitoring and troubleshooting.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"JVM memory monitoring and connection pool monitoring are valuable features."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead."
"The APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"I think as we're all moving forward to automated deployments, it'd be nice to have that out-of-the-box with this product."
"There are several areas that could be improved in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. One of the main areas is user experience monitoring, which is currently not available. Additionally, they need to develop a solution that is compatible with OpenShift 4, as their current solution only works when an agent is installed within the image, which is not possible in OpenShift 4 as it removes the agent."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management writes "Provides efficiency in migration and DAW but requires a high level of administrator knowledge for configuration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, New Relic and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Datadog report.
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