We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"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."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"We are able to easily and quickly find some of the problems with the applications and coding, and some of the performance problems."
"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."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."
"The deep-process instrumentation gave us an opportunity to understand application process performance in detail."
"UEM can be used for user impact analysis and troubleshooting."
"The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI."
"It is much easier to deploy, maintain, and delivery of high value insights, which almost immediately lowers the mean time to value and resolution of issues."
"It is getting to the point that the CTO of the organization knows the tool by first name and will look to have it brought up, because it is so consistent, reliable, and a cornerstone for solving problems."
"Dynatrace provide us the in-depth details to know what is wrong in the application and what are performance issues, then really quickly we are able to debug any performance issues or any other performance-related issues."
"It helps DevOps find all its problems easily and analyzes performance problems."
"PureStack, I just love it. It can give visibility from the end-user perspective right through to the code level. That's the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The documentation and the university helped on Dynatrace."
"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' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"The UI could use a little help."
"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."
"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."
"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."
"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."
"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."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"Needs custom dashboards."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"I'd like to see more agents ready to be deployed. I know that it's possible to develop integration with Dynatrace API, but in day-to-day operations it's hard to do that kind of customization. So if they had more agents for more platforms and more applications, I think it would be better."
"As the product is evolving quickly and product features are added on a monthly basis, a more transparent roadmap would be more than welcome."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"Make it easier to define applications. E.g., provide an API for applications defined by REST services."
"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."
"The web interface, in some cases, is a little ambiguous to use."
"The initial setup was relatively complex because we were trying to implement into environments that they did not yet support."
"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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