We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and OpenText SiteScope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"Some of its valuable features include transaction traces, dashboards, and metric grouping to see combined data."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"Being able to pull in and merge the infrastructure and application data."
"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."
"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."
"We are using the on-premise and cloud versions of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management."
"Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."
"For the system environment, SiteScope can be useful."
"Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable."
"Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"Our experiences with Micro Focus SiteScope have been mostly positive as we can easily work with multiple monitors and different types of monitors pretty quickly. There are a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for us through Micro Focus SiteScope, so we don't have to do that much custom coding for the vast majority of requests that we get for monitoring. There are some limitations that we've run into and some problems every once in a while, but they've been relatively minor."
"VM monitoring is pretty good showing good visualizations of how VMs are operating within the context of all the VMs running on the same hypervisor."
"The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring."
"It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve its supportability to the current technologies and the end-to-end correlation feature should be done automatically without custom configurations. Additionally, there should not be any configuration changes to the client-side when deploying the solution."
"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."
"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."
"You can sell licenses and install the full tool on service, you can show customers how to install, but how to use it and solve issues cannot be done without the experience."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
"In terms of issues with Micro Focus SiteScope, some that we've run into were unintended, for example, extra executions of monitors and some false alerts when there were problems connecting to endpoints or there were issues with the application that sometimes resulted in false positives. We had a few issues with the way time zones were configured when the system time differed from the time indicated during the monitoring, but those were just little things that weren't too bad. As far as the limitations of Micro Focus SiteScope, the types of scripting files that can be executed are rather limited unless you go to some third-party plugins. These are the areas for improvement in the solution."
"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."
"Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
"It could be more reliable using a database repository instead of a log repository."
"We have four or five data centers around North America where we have it deployed into a single or a two-server primary backup type of deployment. All those are made available under a single GUI provided by Micro Focus that allows you to put them all together. A room for improvement would be an appliance or a server that would manage all of our other servers so that I don't have to remember to log on to all different servers and data centers. I could manage them from a single location."
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