We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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: AppDynamics is favored over Broadcom DX Application Performance Management due to its comprehensive features, scalability, stability, and ease of use. It offers alerting, release management, dashboard building, visibility, slow response identification, and business insights. It can monitor various applications and manage log files. Although Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is easy to deploy and provides code-level visibility, it lacks tool integration, has performance issues, and lacks support and end-to-end correlation. AppDynamics also has better customer service and support and a more flexible pricing model.
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"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."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"Proactive snapshots of transactions and all details of a transaction are saved in case of an error."
"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."
"Gives us the ability to know how our application is performing in real-time."
"Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."
"The APM tool allows us to monitor performance of that application, where are the pain points, where are the slowdowns, to focus on where we can fix those."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"CEM needs to be simplified, because it causes too many interruptions in our daily work."
"Needs the ability to dynamically create dashboards. Right now, we do custom dashboards. Everything is created manually."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"The technical support is very poor."
"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."
"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."
"They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this."
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AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 153 reviews while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 4th in Container Monitoring with 161 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, New Relic and OpenText Diagnostics. See our AppDynamics vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management report.
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AppDynamics, New Relic & CA Technologies?
It all depends on the problems you want to solve. They all have their strengths. CA is long in the tooth (old) and with NetQoS has new life being pushed into it, but making it all fit is a challenge. Also with CA you may have to open up the applications to add some other custom monitoring of application package names/methods if you want more detail than out of the box.
Understanding the full flow of a transaction when it talks to other transactions was our key to understanding why we had issues. The Riverbed family of products enabled that for us but even that required work on our part to further decode the MQ traffic better than they did. It went into the MQ Black box, and came out, but did not reveal what happened inside the box. There were requests inside the box that went elsewhere. Those had not been picked up with the tool.
Cons for all of them are that they only sample transactions and can't follow a single user from their device all the way through to the backend database or mainframe. Best using dynaTrace if you want true 100% end to end monitoring.
Saluting Mike, Richard for your sound advice!
Henry
I have found Dynatrace to be much better. It integrates with more tools than any of the 3 listed above.
From my experience with CA Wily, it's more expensive and requires a long implementation, it is also less flexible.
We did not consider New Relic because we did not want to have our sensitive data hosted in the cloud. Not acceptable in our business.
AppDynamics offered a short implementation time, immediate satisfaction and only required fine-tuning afterwards. Also the pricing was lower then CA Wily.
All three are good tools for monitoring web application transactions. Of course, CA has a much broader set of capabilities than the other two - can monitor networks, servers, databases, etc. AppDynamics provides a product that you can use in-house. NewRelic is only a SaaS offering. Which of these is best for you - depends on what you need. If you already have CA deployed, you are probably looking at just web transaction monitoring then. AppDynamics and NewRelic are more current in this area than CA Wily.