Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Room for Improvement

aush.111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at Ooredoo Qatar

This solution still relies on inbuilt configuration. For example, I'm pretty much impressed with Dynatrace POC, where we deploy the agent with a simple click, click, click, and then that's it. And we did not build any alerts or anything. We just started getting the alerts, warnings, and everything on its own system, understood what the benchmark is and what is the threshold, and it started giving you the warnings and the caution alerts, the danger alerts. 

So we expect something like that should be there in Broadcom at the level. But, instead, it expects us to configure. So that is what is missing there.

Even if the server CPU usage is 95%t, it doesn't harm you. It doesn't send you any alerts. We think the system is normal. So it's not normal. So this is what they should think and send you AI/ML-related alarms on their own.

In future releases, I would like to see more AI and ML capabilities, which are kind of missing. 

Another area of improvement is its infrastructure monitoring perspective. For example, they are still using UIM, which is a good tool. But for APM, they have come to DXP. However, in terms of UIM, the unified infrastructure management, there is no DXP version or AIML version of it. So they should try to find an updated version of it so that it is not competing with the rest of the solution.

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Gyanesh Rahatekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings. Broadcom needs to work on application instrumentation and the onboarding-related part. With the tool, there is a very lengthy process to do the onboarding of an application.

I don't know which version of the tool is currently running in the market. I use a very old version of the product, and I don't know what kind of features Broadcom has made available in the current release of the tool.

If technical support related to the product is improved, considering what kind of product has been provided to users to ensure that the product is supported in an environment, then it would be great. Suppose there is a Java application in an environment, and it may be related to Java 5, Java 6, Java 7, or Java 8, and a user receives no technical specification related to what kind of version the application supports, including Java JDK 11 and Java JDK 17, it poses a challenge. The product does not provide details about which version of Java is supported, meaning such information related to the product is unavailable. The product's technical support is an area with certain shortcomings, where improvements are required. The technical support of the product is an area with certain shortcomings, where improvements are required. The aforementioned scenario is not just related to Java but also to all the application languages.

The tool is required to build correct documentation related to its product and versions, explaining what kind of version is supported related to their onboarded applications, and it is not just related to Java but also to Python, .NET, Python.js, and PHP.


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Marco Aurelio - PeerSpot reviewer
IT infrastructure Analyst at Banestes

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. 

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AJ
CEO at Pio Pet d.o.o.

DX APM has a space for improvement in covering more technologies. I.e. monitoring of PHP should be solved in a more quality way. 

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SF
Applications Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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Steven Palondongan - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Development Program at Astra Graphia Information Technology

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.

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