We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Broadcom is praised for its simple implementation and setup process, along with its code-level visibility, transaction monitoring feature, and dependable technical assistance. Meanwhile, VMware Tanzu is highly regarded for its effortless deployment, ability to integrate with various platforms, support for container environments, and impressive scalability.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management reviews suggest the need for improvements in various areas such as integration, front-end performance, support, CPU and memory issues, end-to-end correlation automation, and compatibility with OpenShift 4. VMware Tanzu improvements include the need for enhancements in the billing model, customizable metrics and dashboards, licensing, documentation, and the initial setup process.
Service and Support: Some users of Broadcom DX expressed dissatisfaction; others praised the helpfulness. Suggestions have been made for improvement in commitment to service-level agreements. Similarly, users of VMware Tanzu Observability have had varied experiences with some users not requiring support, and others facing issues around longer wait times.
Ease of Deployment: Broadcom users had mixed experiences with the initial setup, with some users finding it fast and straightforward, while others mentioned it took about two months. VMware Tanzu had a varied setup process among reviewers. Some found it easy and quick, while others found it complex, especially when setting up clusters.
Pricing: Broadcom DX utilizes a monthly licensing fee for its setup cost, and users propose that the pricing structure should be tied to memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents. In contrast, VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is deemed costly, with reviewers highlighting supplementary expenses for integrations and add-ons.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, VMware Tanzu is the preferred choice over Broadcom DX. Users found the setup of VMware Tanzu Observability to be quick and easy, taking only hours or minutes. Users also praised the deployment and integration of VMware Tanzu Observability, as well as its support for container platforms and scalability.
"We did the setup for a new datacenter, and that was pretty straightforward."
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."
"We make custom dashboards for our development areas so they can understand how busy traffic affects their application with traffic. They can see how traffic directly affects their application in positive or negative ways."
"The ability to accomplish the identification of the root cause of problems with applications in drill-down level by integrating the suite with tools for managing and monitoring."
"Users no longer need to depend upon the console for a compatible Java version. Now, users can directly learn the version, perform all their actions, and see all of those performance-related issues."
"The time it takes to track problems in applications is the most valuable return that we have from this solution."
"Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"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."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"No issues with stability."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"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."
"The APM SQL feature doesn't perform like we would like it to. I know that's a new feature with 10.5, so it may be one of those things that gets a little better, but it should run faster."
"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."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"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."
"In order for the tool to be successful, at least in our organization, it will need to have more self-serve features for implementation, instrumentation, and then modification of metric data from the APM."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"It doesn't have a proper database, and the configuration is very difficult."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 33rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Grafana, Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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