We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"It is a stable solution."
"Standard available reports provide us with an automatic insight into the top ten situations to watch. It would have been extremely difficult to program such a report ourselves, and to my knowledge no other competitor can match this functionality."
"The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."
"The time it takes to track problems in applications is the most valuable return that we have from this solution."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management for me is transaction monitoring. The technical support provided for the solution is also an advantage."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"The solution is very stable. We never had any issues with stability."
"IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"This solution is expensive."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"Our users lag how to identify the root cause with this solution. If they could come up with a more user-friendly version, that would be a good thing, since other vendors currently have better features and more user-friendly products than CA APM."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"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."
"I think as we're all moving forward to automated deployments, it'd be nice to have that out-of-the-box with this product."
"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."
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
"What comes to mind when you speak of a room for improvement in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is the infrastructure agent, but my company doesn't use it, so I can't say if it's really a problem or not, but it could be the container support or cloud support that could be improved in the solution. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is for it to have one agent for cloud and one agent for legacy, with all features included."
"It should be easier to install or set everything up. "
"The user interface was not good."
"The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited knowledge of managing it effectively."
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