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.
"Deep Dive and Transaction Analysis Triage capability."
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"We receive good transactions from it with good graphs, as well, documenting the activities of total visitors on the site. We can pull the reports and provide them to the client, as required."
"Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team. It saves lots of time for APM team."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"Some of its valuable features include transaction traces, dashboards, and metric grouping to see combined data."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."
"Helps us to see the troubleshooting points or what is hiccuping. This is where we go. We reboot, fix it, or do whatever it takes for it to be taken care of."
"Since things are getting more complicated, it is nice to have artificial intelligence to correlate issues and events to come up with root cause."
"We're able to pinpoint web and mobile interface issues before they trigger a negative customer experience."
"Quick availability of multiple aspects of performance from infrastructure to application layers."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"It gives complete stats of the user and what they are doing."
"We like the on-premises platform and the horizontal scalability."
"Technical support is slow to respond and also asks redundant questions."
"Needs the ability to dynamically create dashboards. Right now, we do custom dashboards. Everything is created manually."
"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."
"Documentation needs to be centralized."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"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."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"They need better infrastructure monitoring. New Relic is beating them for infrastructure monitoring."
"I need more experience."
"Right now, for AppMon, the maximum handling load, the transaction per minute, is around 6,500. We had an issue on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, some kind of stability issue for users who could not log in. I want to see an increase in the load, at least to 7,000 or 8,000 transactions per second"
"The integration between the web monitoring of Dynatrace and OneAgent. "
"There is another challenge, which is in case of the Managed solution. In our old solution we could simply export the data as session data, and that would be imported and seen. Now, if we are using the Managed solution, then giving someone access to that solution is a challenge. We can handle it, but it's different than taking screenshots and saving that information the way we used to. The copy/paste features that were there in old application - because it was a fat app - were nice, compared to browser-based app, because you cannot really use those features anymore."
"The web version of the client interface needs more features that are in the Java-based thick client."
"When it comes to monitoring, we did the integration with VMware vCenter, and we were able to see some good stuff. The VMware vCenter integration was really great, but what we really missed was the integration with the network management stuff such as Cisco ACI. We wanted to see integration in that area, but it was not provided by Dynatrace. So, the main feature for us is integration with things like Cisco ACI. If they can bring that one in, with vCenter in there, it would be a total solution. It would be absolutely incomparable to anything else in the market."
"One thing that I would like to see is for companies like us - large AppMon customers that have a lot of presence in AppMon, a lot of manually configured things and customizations - would be something that would help us be able to make that journey more easily, the transition from to AppMon to Dynatrace."
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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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