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 deployment was easy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"This application pulls data in 15 seconds. You can imagine the enormous amount of data which streams through."
"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."
"It has created total transparency between technology and business on all aspects of systems and performance as well as being a proxy for network performance through user experience monitoring. This followed a major performance degradation of our primary frontline system, which highlighted inadequacy of infrastructure focus tools, e.g., Nagios and Zabbix. It helped detect and remediate several performance issues on systems on both vendor supplied packages as well as in-house developed systems. It also improved InfraOps and development teams understanding of system behaviour and performance characteristics."
"We can report and monitor on specific use cases which could not be monitored with SAP or other tooling."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"It has enabled us to have a deeper insight into our application availability and performance."
"Dynatrace is a powerful tool for full stack monitoring with APM capabilities and AI root cause problem analysis. This helps our customers with their digital transformation and gaining insight into their infrastructure."
"We have substantially lowered incidents in our organization."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We use PurePath to see exactly what the user observed from the web browser to the end of the request to the dialog box. Every step of what they do is very useful for us to diagnose a problem"
"The interface is getting a little old."
"It doesn't have a proper database, and the configuration is very difficult."
"With respect to SQL monitoring, it would be nice to have a little more information because it doesn't provide the full statement all of the time."
"I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead."
"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."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
"The reports are a key part of APM in my vision because it is through them that we manage to generate the evidence to direct the development team and operational support to address. However, we can not extract the information of the tool through reports. We have needed several times to use screen print screen, CTRL + C and CTRL + V."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see single pane monitoring."
"We have had to resolve a lot of things and had a lot of issues with the tool."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
"There was complexity to AppMon and getting everything set, but more specifically getting the dashboard setup."
"It is not clear what are our long-term strategy should be to upgrade (Appmon vs Dynatrace)."
"It would be nice if there were a way that it could be made simpler, given the complexity of the things that we're monitoring."
"Improvements in Synthetic monitoring would be great. Certain features of thick client, if available in the web interface, would also be a great improvement."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 4th in Container Monitoring with 161 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 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, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, 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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