We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace has a more user-friendly interface, better AI capabilities, and stronger support for container platforms compared to Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Dynatrace also offers more customization options for dashboards and better reporting capabilities.
"The deep-process instrumentation gave us an opportunity to understand application process performance in detail."
"An application is quite complicated in the environment of a software reliability engineer, because our applications are like a black box. Thanks to CA APM we are able to transform this black box to a gray box by using the transaction trace functionality services. For me it's the most valuable service of the solution."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"The insight it gives into the applications that it's actually applied to, and the flexibility to do many things with those metrics, and also feed your own metrics from external sources."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"Gives us the ability to know how our application is performing in real-time."
"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."
"Dynatrace Appmon provides us with the ability to proactively identify issues within our systems which could be impacting our customers."
"The most useful features are cloud monitoring, application monitoring, and alert notifications."
"This tool has been essential for monitoring our systems, gathering all performance data, and helping to quickly resolve difficult problems affecting our customers ability to process their work through our systems."
"Its monitoring and key purpose capabilities are the most valuable. It provides the root cause of problems and helps peers join the war room."
"The autodiscovery of service intercommunication has saved countless man hours and is dynamically updated when new services are added."
"Everybody can show charts and metrics, but Dynatrace’s infographics are amazing. The dashboarding is simply best in class."
"PurePath view of methods and the call stack are extremely valuable for troubleshooting and performance review."
"The deployment itself is very easy and straightforward."
"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."
"The technical support is very poor."
"What comes to mind when you speak of a room for improvement in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is the infrastructure agent, but my company doesn't use it, so I can't say if it's really a problem or not, but it could be the container support or cloud support that could be improved in the solution. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is for it to have one agent for cloud and one agent for legacy, with all features included."
"Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve its supportability to the current technologies and the end-to-end correlation feature should be done automatically without custom configurations. Additionally, there should not be any configuration changes to the client-side when deploying the solution."
"Very often, we use tools such as Kibana or Jaspersoft for dashboards and reporting on CA APM data because CA APM’s old interfaces do not reflect well in modern displays, compared to those new tools."
"Documentation needs to be centralized."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first."
"Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions."
"I believe that something related to IoT devices should be improved."
"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."
"The GUI has the most room for improvement. Sometimes, it can be a little cumbersome to find things and be able to create your own views, or be able to dig in and understand where things are."
"Its needs to focus more on open source areas, like Apache umbrella products and availability motioning areas."
"For AppMon, in order to use the rich client especially, I think you have to be somebody who is in there more often than not. It's not necessarily as intuitive as it could be."
"The customer support is not quick and helpful at this stage. We are deploying Dynatrace into our network. I've raised a couple of technical questions with the support team but the response was not fast and didn't cover all my questions at all."
"Adding people to alerts has not been very intuitive. That's really my only negative feedback."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. 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 Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, New Relic and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Dynatrace report.
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