Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Scalability
We just have two agents deployed in our environment.
View full review »Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. Suppose our company requires additional controllers to take care of the application's scalability feature, then there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application.
In our company, we have onboarded more than 2,000 applications.
My company caters to the needs of enterprise-sized businesses.
We have approximately 30 managers and analysts using the solution.
I rate the scalability of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management a seven out of ten.
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management
March 2024
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Delbert Larsen
Senior Admin at Northwestern Mutual
Scalability is getting better. A lot better than it used to be. Back in the day, it used to be you could have only 10 collectors. Your limit, if you do the math, it is about a million or a million and a half metrics, which sounds like a lot, but it goes fast. They have gotten better about marrying some of those together.
Our instrumentation has changed a lot, so we still can't put together all of the silos that I would like to put together. However, it is better than it used to be.
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Junaid Wahab
Systems Solution Analyst III at AmerisourceBergen
It's very scalable.
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SeniorTe4977
Senior Technology Officer at BMO Financial
Amazing. It is very nice for what it does.
View full review »It is scalable, but we have to go through a lot of pain in configuring agents. Agent configuration has been something of a mystery because of poor documentation. We talk to CA and we get some guidance, which often doesn’t work. When you’re rolling out agents 4000 JVMs, it is a painful process, and that’s only one application.
View full review »At this moment, we have not encountered any scalability issues.
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Srikanth Doddi
APM consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited
This solution is scalable.
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Hui Wang
Technical Service Owner for Monitoring at BCBS of NC
The scalability side for the UIM is pretty solid. As long as you set up your database right, you should be able to handle, for example, $150,000 transactions.
APM, currently, our organization is moving to the cloud, so we have lots more APM analytics, etc., so we're going to see how that's going to scale up.
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ManagerSe046
Manager Systems Application at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It scales. We have a bunch of different applications using it.
View full review »Some challenges are maintaining the growth of the environment; a lot of manual labor is involved, which again is being solved with the new version that came out. One of the products we use, the real-user monitoring, has been very successful, but at times challenging to implement. There's some shift in paradigm using it today, moving to a more mature model within the APM umbrella, and again, start using a lot of the stuff with their new solution, AXA; some of the mobile platforms, which will help us to move into that direction, to unify the APM solution which we heavily rely on today.
View full review »The product has absolutely been scalable.
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reviewer989331
Applications Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is a scalable product.
View full review »We have scaled CA APM a lot over the last few years. As time goes by, there is an increased demand for monitoring leads to underperforming enterprise managers and/or other memory issues. We are running on VM. However, CA recommends to run on a physical machine with lot of compute resources, which wouldn't be applicable to all companies with their standard environments and also in terms of the budget/funding that it requires.
View full review »No issues, the product has evolved to increase scalability on existing infrastructure which is very good.
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Manish A. Parikh
ESM Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Agent metric containment is a VERY BIG challenge for us. Constantly have to normalize the agents to reduce the number of metrics and/or metric explosion.
View full review »No issues with scalability. We're able to add stuff to it without any issue. We've got a decent license count so there are no issues there, it's been easy.
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ArnabMukhopadhyay
Enterprise Architecture Leader with 5,001-10,000 employees
There were no real issues with scalability. If you have proper scaling, it depends on how you implement the product. You need to make sure it's a scalable solution, depending on the number of agents that reporting to the manager. In terms of providing scalability, it should be fine. I haven't seen any issues.
View full review »It is very scalable. As I said before, we're running more than 21,000 agents in all of our development operations. We feel that it could scale very well by just adding more servers and enterprise managers.
View full review »It scales pretty well. For instance, I can give you an example of what I am doing right now. It is one of the few applications that pulls data every 15 seconds. The majority of the applications that I am aware of pull data in five minutes time. This application pulls data in 15 seconds. You can imagine the enormous amount of data which streams through.
What I am happy with is their latest version has something called SmartStor, which has been improved for the database. The scalability, it has gotten much better.
You are able to archive your historical data on two different collectors, then use your live data to be able to run the application effectively. That is what I do. It is very scalable. The number of collectors one can use per MOM. I have gone over that and the application is still stable, and it is very scalable.
View full review »We haven't had issues scaling it.
View full review »We've had no issues with scalability.
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Shivakumar Gutte
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't had any issues with its scalability.
View full review »There aren't issues related to CA APM's scalability.
View full review »I have not had any scalability issues.
View full review »It’s very scalable.
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ITLeadere3b9
IT Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is technically scalable, but it is very expensive for our business especially it the way that CA calculates the price, that is based on the number of processors. If we use it too much, it will be too expensive.
View full review »We have had scalability issues. Performance slows down with the number of JVMs our team supports.
View full review »The scalability is very poor. When you expand your application, you have to do it manually on the deployment.
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Mahendra Shetty
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is good. We haven't faced any issues.
We have about 50 users in our organization, from directors to analysts. Around 60 to 70 percent of our organization is using the solution.
We monitor more than 400 applications, which is done with two people who are system engineers (myself included).
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Sahar Nir
Noc maneger with 11-50 employees
Everything is okay. I have no problems.
View full review »It is scalable. We can keep adding collectors that store the data, as needed. We haven't had any issues with that so far.
View full review »We have not had any scalability issues. I will note that it is important to have an understanding of how APM works and, if you’re new to the product, to work closely with CA on environment sizing, optimizing the configuration, and understanding how much load an environment can handle.
View full review »We haven't hit the wall yet with finding the upper ends of the scalability. What we've been told is that we can deploy up to 60 apps in the current infrastructure without having some sort of performance degradation. We haven't experienced it yet, so that's still to be determined.
View full review »There have been no issues scaling it.
View full review »CA Introscope has had performance issues due to large number of metrics collected though it was scaled accordingly.
View full review »No. There was a 3 phase staged expansion of this application which did not need any additional planning other than installing new agents on computers and servers.
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AlbertJurisic
CEO at Pio Pet d.o.o.
This solution is very scalable but we have not had the need to scale because our implementations not need more than one EM server. The new version of DX APM rely on microservices technology and scalability is automatized.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »We have not had any issues with scalability. We have been able to add Collectors as needed to support the growing number of agents that we support. I think in comparison to some other APM users we have a pretty small footprint. We have a staging and production environment. Each environment has one MOM and seven collectors with about 400 agents.
View full review »In terms of scalability, because APM is tightly coupled, it doesn't have the scalability as a built-in feature. Starting from version 10.5 it has a different approach for the scalability, while it grows, it really captures that way.
It needs to scale according to the CS support set and we can scale it as our needs require.
View full review »This tool is scalable as expected, we had to make some fixes to metrics explosion, and afterwords we needed to add a couple of enterprise managers.
View full review »We have had some issues with historical metric limits as the agents get load balanced between collectors.
View full review »Our scalability is great because you can add servers. It works.
I'm using it primarily for our front-end websites and our mobile-banking sites. So we're probably running 250,000 clients through the system.
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SolutionEng112
Solution Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
I think other products do have a little bit more flexibility in how large they can scale. For the most part, I think every customer I have observed has been able to work with the product. Either way, we have options to scale. It is just whether it is one cluster versus a couple of clusters, and they get what they need.
View full review »Yes, but this was related to infrastructure capacity. We could not expand our infrastructure how ever we exploited the product beyond its original design (so self inflicted).
View full review »The only problems we have are limited by our hardware.
View full review »We have scaled it and we have not run into scalability issues yet; maybe we're close. We have a cluster of about five or six servers, I believe. So far, it's hanging in there.
View full review »We've rolled this out for a single one of our products and we're already exploring the potential of expanding that across the company to incorporate multiple products. It's something that we're definitely considering.
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SolutionEng112
Solution Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Only in instances where recommended limits regarding agents/metrics were exceeded.
View full review »We've not had any issues with the scalability.
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reviewer1581165
Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We have 50 users on the solution currently.
In terms of scalability, I would say it's good, however, it's definitely not perfect. If you aren't yet getting the right results, it doesn't make sense to scale it.
As of right now, we have no plans to increase usage.
View full review »In terms of stability, with our current setup, it is not so much. Unlike a situation where it was on the cloud, we'd have to be involved and it would be difficult to scale it up.
We have about a dozen people in the organization who use it.
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Anuranjan Kumar
Technical Consultant at Grid Infocom Pvt Ltd
CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity.
View full review »I do not think we have had any problems with scalability. Other than right now it is just for Java agents. It does not have much JavaScript client-side monitoring.
View full review »It scales pretty well.
View full review »Until now, I have not faced any scalability issues.
View full review »It does scale well, from what I understand. I'm not the person who does the deployments.
View full review »It scales okay, but there are some limitations as far as the amount of collectors you need to be able to scale.
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itadmin435408
IT Administrator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We didn’t have any issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »It’s scalable, but not right out of the box, even though we were told it was designed to be out-of-the-box scalable.
View full review »There are no issues there. It’ll run on as many platforms as you can run it on.
View full review »We haven't scaled it yet.
View full review »There were scalability issues. With a high amount of data, we found that there is some loss of information when asking for the CLW. We have an issue open on this and CA its working to solve it.
View full review »We have not had any issues with scalability.
View full review »We are experiencing an on-going issue with our CA APM to Spectrum integration where we are unable to send alerts to the Spectrum console.
View full review »There were no scalability issues. We performed large installations without any problems.
View full review »There are more issues with the app monitoring itself, since the architecture can be a little bit confusing, and in some ways even incomplete on paper. Several times after an implementation, there are a lot of other services involved and supporting the main app with the service owner not knowing, or to the contrary, the documentation doesn’t include this info.
View full review »We're hoping to scale it out to the entire IT staff with about 1200 total servers including a mainframe, which is massive, through four call centers. We've got it scaled to that, but it's our end users' uses of the technology in order to improve what they're doing in the varying departments that will ultimately determine how well it scales. And so far, so good.
View full review »This solution is entirely scalable from our point of view.
View full review »The scalability is very good, because we used to have only the latest applications and we are now moving to containers and the newest technologies.
View full review »We did experience some scalability issues, i.e., only at the mobility experience monitoring end.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »No scalability issues so far. That's been fine.
View full review »No issues encountered with scalability.
View full review »CEM needs good follow up as it collects big amounts of data. Close follow up is needed for critical parameters. But you can easy scale up.
View full review »Scalibility is quite well defined for the product with proper Sizing sheet available for the pre deployment scenario and finalizing accurately based on the same.
View full review »So far, scalability has not been an issue. There's a limit on the number of enterprise managers where the data goes to be reviewed. The solution, however, is that if you reach the single-cluster limits, then you can federate other clusters, so that way you can view up.
The main issue with scalability is, however, that there's a lot of overhead required to keep it expanding. With AppDynamics, on the other hand, you at least only need one server in order to accommodate a lot more agents. With CA APM, you need a lot of central servers and enterprise managers to have that same load. It is scalable, but the maintenance or the overhead to maintain it is a lot higher than other products.
I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »Despite the complexity, we did not encounter any scalability issues.
View full review »We encountered a stability issue. A customer wants to see more metrics but performance will degrade if you disable Data limited to 100 matching metrics.
View full review »We had no problems scaling it.
View full review »Scalability will only become a problem if your initial scope of deployment doesn't allow for the adopting of the solution in the wider business. Most solutions like CA APM are implemented in large commercial organisations that stem from siloed projects, which have an initial role of configuring, installing and providing a business benefits realization. Once this occurs and when done well, the solution needs to be able to grow and grow fast. The standalone or clustered architecture that CA APM adopts allows you to upscale and downscale your solution with minimal impact to the business, allowing for a solution that will fit all organisations deployment plans.
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Dharmendra-Singh
Specialist Operations(Windows) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
No issues with scalability.
View full review »Yes, we encountered issues with scalability inside Team Center, a massive amount of universes, perspectives, applications.
View full review »Not sure.
View full review »It needs more features, more performance, especially in a huge environment.
The scalability is really fast. Though maybe it should be faster. Maybe it is still some point for improvement for the APM if CA would provide some docker installation, this would make it even faster.
Because the docker container is a coached service, and if it will have a some performance issue, we will automatically deploy the new docker installation and a new docker agent to the endpoint and do everything possible without installation.
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Luke Kabamba
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have not had scalability issues.
View full review »We have not had any scalability issues.
View full review »No issues
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reviewer1104816
Director Regional at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable.
We have over 100 applications with multiple customers using this solution.
View full review »Scalability is very good, because you can choose different amounts of agents.
When we were trying to restore historical data, we have reached certain limitations, which have restricted our historical view from being resized. Also, it change the data from one year into 200 days, historically.
View full review »Scalability is very easy compared to other vendors' tools.
View full review »I'm happy with scalability. One of our customers uses three collectors and another is using 10 collectors. We haven't had any problems with scalability.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Anuranjan Kumar
Technical Consultant at Grid Infocom Pvt Ltd
We have been able to scale it to our needs.
View full review »With CA APM, you can’t scale the ‘webview’ (Team Center), the feature that provides you with the views/dashboards. To do this, you need to build a new environment and start manually.
View full review »We have managed environments up to five Enterprise Manager instances which can be considered a middle-sized environment. We have not find any problem with scalability.
View full review »We've had no issues on scalability because CA APM is able to scale up well and good on increasing load. But when capacity is reached, the system breaks completely.
View full review »Scalability is, I think, one of the strongest points of CA APM. You can control individual agents and control the infrastructure requirement at micro level. This reduces the chances of over expenditure of resources for the tool.
View full review »One environment can only have a maximum of 10 collectors for supporting a maximum of 4000 agents.
View full review »Only in old versions (where MOM does not exists)
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
View full review »We did not encounter any scalability issues.
View full review »CA APM is able to monitor hundreds of servers and applications.
View full review »I have not encountered any issues with scalability.
View full review »We have not had any scalability problems.
View full review »There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »We didn't have any issues scaling it to our needs.
View full review »This isn't an issue as it's possible to configure Introscope Enterprise Manager as a distributed high available cluster environment.
View full review »I'm not sure because I'm not the one who configures it.
We did have scalability problems.
View full review »No, it's pretty easy to add more collectors/servers.
View full review »We haven't had any scalability issues with CA APM.
View full review »We have not had scalability issues. You can scale up to 10 collectors.
View full review »This tool has supported our growth anytime we've scaled.
View full review »No issues because the product works like a cluster.
View full review »We sometimes have issues depending on how many agents are involved.
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I was not able to monitoring a WebSphere portal on a previous version.
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Buyer's Guide
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.