We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"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."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"The way these tools show the information is very useful. this is a tool that records information from Java and .NET applications, and obtain information about how many times an method has been call in a period of time (usually 30 sec), how many times respond in this span of time or is delayed or stall."
"Some of its valuable features include transaction traces, dashboards, and metric grouping to see combined data."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is its very light model with monitoring of servers and network items."
"With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool"
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"This solution is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"One of the challenges is agent releases. So as we employ agents, they are done relatively manually. A little bit of automating of agent release would be helpful."
"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."
"Support could be much better."
"Needs custom dashboards."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The following need improvement: 1) Integration of third-party content into app maps (e.g. data coming from beats/elastic platform). 2) Support of new application server technologies, time to adopt new versions of them. 3) Dashboarding capabilities (as with all other vendors). 4) Application architecture of the central Enterprise Manager should be developed into a cloud native architecture. 5) Mitigation of SPOF – PostgreSQL database, behind Team Center."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
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