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.
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"We use it to create dashboards and executive view dashboards, so our higher up managers can take a look and see where our application status stands."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"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 most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is its very light model with monitoring of servers and network items."
"JVM memory monitoring and connection pool monitoring are valuable features."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"The technical support is very poor."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"Needs the ability to dynamically create dashboards. Right now, we do custom dashboards. Everything is created manually."
"The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"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."
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
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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.