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.
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"If there's something that you really need to get at that doesn't come out of the box, you can pretty easily put together some custom metrics and get those in place."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."
"I like that it gives you a wide range of data where you can see the application outage response from concurrent locations and the number of stalled jobs."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"For me, the most valuable feature is being able to check memory patterns. We check them when we do load testing or soak testing to see if there are any memory leaks."
"We are using the on-premise and cloud versions of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"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."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"A CA APM agent takes a lot of memory. That is one disadvantage. If you configure CA APM correctly it will still consume around 15 to 20 percent of memory."
"User interface - CA is moving towards HTML5, but still a lot is Java, old fashioned, non-customizable and not user friendly. It’s look and feel is still too technical."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"Its profiling. The uniqueness instead of me looking at sampling data, I need to know the m-1 event that actually triggered my scenario where that m event caused a catastrophic event, like a ripple effect; I need to know that m-1. What triggered my major event means I need to understand the event that triggered it and before the cause of that event itself."
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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.