Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Stability
In terms of stability, it has been stable so far. However, we may have some downtimes or other performance issues due to the complexity of our setup.
We have two platforms running, and we only have one UIM. For example, we have version 10.7 of the old UIM, and we have the new version of APM, which is DXP. We have around sixteen old IT systems running on version 10.7 and one new IT system running on the new APM, which is DXP. UIM is common for both of them. So, this is a kind of complicated setup. Due to this, any changes that we make at the UIM level may affect both of them, which is not ideal. So, it is impacting either here or there.
So this is where we are facing a few troubles. Without them having to bring in some new probes, they have to keep in mind that it could impact the DXP version of it. So they are customizing that for us. But this is one of the operational challenges that we have.
View full review »Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. There are no bugs or issues related to the tool. Once you install the application, correctly configure it, and get the correct configuration details according to your utilization, then there are no issues you would face with the application. It is a robust application without any issues, even when users work with it for more time.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is a stable solution.
I rate the stability of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management a seven out of ten.
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April 2024
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Delbert Larsen
Senior Admin at Northwestern Mutual
We have had some issues with rendering the teamcenter views. It is dependent on a Postgres database. Or, the Postgres Oracle if you want to pay the billion dollars for an Oracle license, but performance is so-so. For the APM stuff, you have to be mindful of what you are instrumenting. How many metrics you are pulling per agents, etc. The team center views are dependent on that Postgres database, which can kind of suck sometimes, or it can be good. It just depends. Our environment gets sort of big, so it is harder.
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Junaid Wahab
Systems Solution Analyst III at AmerisourceBergen
The stability is very good. We haven't had any lagging or downtime.
We have already tuned it. It's very reliable. We have used suggestions from the CA communities and others. I already have experience with it so I have stabilized our environment.
We have had a lot of challenges with APM. We've been using it since it was called Wiley, and the CA team has been absolutely wonderful. They've really stayed with it, they've researched, they've helped us. We've gotten custom patches, custom solutions that then get worked into the next product release. It has been a difficult maturation process. Now we're in a really good spot in terms of stability. We're happy with it.
I've been with the company for about four years. There was an installation of Wiley that was kind of done haphazardly and we were having a lot of stability problems. I wasn't there at the very beginning of it, but we did take it from essentially a single-pointed presence to the size where it is today. According to CA, we're probably in the top five in terms of installations, so we're one of the big ones.
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SeniorTe4977
Senior Technology Officer at BMO Financial
It is a very stable platform, I can vouch for that. That first line of defense is not going to fail. It is a fairly stable product because it has been there for a while and all the knicks and knacks have been worked out. I can call it a matured product in what it does, but what is being sold is a different topic altogether.
View full review »We had some hiccups, and still are. When we implemented agents for one of our applications, the agents had a memory leak and halted the application, so it was unstable. We were told to upgrade to a new version of APM which mostly addressed the issue.
The issues are ongoing to an extent, and we’ve been working with CA for a while on a trial and error basis, which has been painful.
View full review »We did have stability problems in versions 10.1 and 9.7.
We had many problems of instability, but when we upgraded to version 10.5, these problems reduced drastically.
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Srikanth Doddi
APM consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited
It is a stable solution.
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Hui Wang
Technical Service Owner for Monitoring at BCBS of NC
Very good. The CA UIM is a very solid product. We love the simplicity of the robots and the agent installation and upgrading, because you can just do it right at your central station without rebooting the remote workstations or servers. The APM allows us to have inside-application analytics, and very seldom do we need to reboot, etc.
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ManagerSe046
Manager Systems Application at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We've not had any problems with it.
View full review »It is stable; and, more so, I like CA's direction. I am very inspired by it. It gives us hope.
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reviewer989331
Applications Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is a stable product.
View full review »There are a couple of issues in terms of stability.
Sometimes, the interlinking between APM and UAM doesn't happen regularly. You need to restart other services, which is not convenient.
View full review »No issues, it's one of the main strengths of the product.
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Manish A. Parikh
ESM Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
On Windows Platform, it’s not great and/or stable (from previous experience). We had lots of challenges on that platform back then. But with the current employer we start things off the right foot with RHEL platform :)
View full review »The stability is very good. We recently upgraded to 10.5, and the performance has been fantastic, especially since the upgrade. We had a few minor things before the upgrade, but once we've upgraded it's run like a champ.
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ArnabMukhopadhyay
Enterprise Architecture Leader with 5,001-10,000 employees
I haven't had any prior stability issues. The only issues I have usually, is more like a question. In other words, if this can be done or it cannot be done. But I don't have that many issues pertaining to performance or the system going down or anything. I really love the product.
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Manish A. Parikh
ESM Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It's pretty robust and scalable, so I haven't had any issues. I've been using these products for the last seven years, so stability-wise, it's one of the better, scalable products I have worked with.
View full review »Stability is pretty good. They are improving it with every version. I'm hoping that when the latest version is out, we will have a really stable environment that we can rely on 100%.
View full review »It is fairly stable. I have used the solution and have seen it improve throughout the years. I started using it when it was Wily. My first encounter with it was in 2008.
I have seen a significant improvement with the upgrades which have come with it. It has come a long way. It is like night and day. The application is very stable and extremely useful.
View full review »We have encountered issues with stability when best practices were not followed. It became more stable after using best practices.
View full review »It's pretty stable. I just don't think that we've done a very good job of lifecycle management of the product.
View full review »It's a very stable product.
View full review »Because my application is running on IBM WebSphere and Java 6, there were ‘workarounds’ I needed to apply. CA would provide a distinct copy of the Java agent and the associated configuration files to avoid the trouble spots. Unfortunately, these workarounds also disabled important functionality, such as deep tracing.
View full review »No issues if you make sure you align the underlying infrastructure with the capacity needed.
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ITLeadere3b9
IT Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Some few times the agents lost connection whit the manager, but usually for changes made in the java / . net server.
View full review »The product is stable most of the time. However, like any software out there, there are bugs. Few crashes have been experienced, but incorrect metrics and improper collector behaviours have been observed.
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Mahendra Shetty
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very good. CA APM is far more stable than any of the other tools available, though we have seen memory leaks with the solution.
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Sahar Nir
Noc maneger with 11-50 employees
Great. No problem.
View full review »We have had large environments, many millions of metrics feeding in, and never have we had to dedicate a single resource to maintaining it.
Actually coming in once in a while for maintenance, we do have to put some work into it once in a while, but there is nothing to the magnitude of having to have somebody dedicated to it.
View full review »We have had stability issues, but we have worked out the major issues with CA and are working towards resolution of the minor stability issues. The fixes for the stability issues we experienced have been implemented in versions of CA APM following APM 10.2.
View full review »Stability has been good so far from my current experience and previous experience of APM. We are using an earlier version, 9.7. We're about to upgrade to 10.3. What is very important is making sure that you evaluate your application and what you want to measure and capture, in a development environment before you go to production. If you attempt to capture too much information in production it can lead to issues. Teams need to know what they're doing, because it can impact performance if you're looking for too many things you don't really care about.
View full review »There were issues, but we have fixed them now.
View full review »CA Introscope has performance and data collection issues.
View full review »No. Application was stable enough after APM installation.
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AlbertJurisic
CEO at Pio Pet d.o.o.
This solution is stable. In the 15 years, we have not had any major issues. It's an excellent product.
We have a good approach and implementation. If we have any problems, we solve it in the testing phase before it's in production. I can't say that we have had serious problems in the last 10 to 12 years.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »The overall stability of the product is very good. The only time I normally see issues is right after an upgrade. Sometimes a few tweaks are necessary to stabilize everything after an upgrade. It might require a small change to the EM configuration or an agent configuration change. This is normally because of a new feature that was introduced.
View full review »Stability is quite good.
View full review »It's a stable product. We've had no issues with instability.
View full review »At first we had some, but we had months running this solution without interruptions. As far as the scalability, it's an important factor.
View full review »We have had issues with APM's stability, but it is sometimes hard to tell if this is due to our virtual infrastructure or in the product itself.
View full review »We measure the limit of a solution by the number of users. The application is developed in Java and only 10 to 15 users can connect to the application. It's quite a limit for massive deployment in a huge company like Orange.
View full review »For the most part, it's been stable. It's an agent product, so there's agents out on the servers. We've found that they run in services. There has been situations where the agent will disconnect or things like that, and then we're not getting metrics until someone notices it.
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SolutionEng112
Solution Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
It is stable. There are enhancements that we have to make sometimes that are not necessarily easy to implement depending on the customer and the situation. For the most part, it is a definitely a solid product and every customer definitely sees the benefit in using it.
One of the biggest challenges was trying to gauge overhead of a particular customer, and that was difficult to do. I know they are making improvements to the product to help address that type of situation. However, we are still in play there. There is benefit to it, but it was just difficult to prove that it was not the agent. With any situation like this, it is not uncommon to have your development team look at monitoring as a potential roadblock. Ultimately, I think we are low overhead and providing value to the development cycle.
The CEM (Customer Experience Management) product is still immature and do have hiccups. Most of the time it is very stable with an occasional glitch.
View full review »The infrastructure is stable and scalable to the recommended capacity.
View full review »The performance issues we have are on our end and we don't hold CA accountable for that.
View full review »I'm pretty happy with how stable it is.
View full review »I don't think we've been faced with too many challenges with stability. I know that very early on in adoption that we were having some crashes, but it's being relatively stable for the last number of weeks, even months.
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SolutionEng112
Solution Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
My experience with stability issues have been mostly “self-inflicted”; poor configuration, insufficient hardware etc.
View full review »The application has been very stable for us.
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reviewer1581165
Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I don't find the reliability to be so good on the solution. The stability could be better.
View full review »This is a stable product.
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Anuranjan Kumar
Technical Consultant at Grid Infocom Pvt Ltd
Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms.
View full review »Stability could actually be helped because it is a wrapper or an agent on our system. If we are having a bad day in production or if other resources are being utilized, then we will get get gaps in our monitoring system. It does not happen very often, but it usually happens at the worst possible time.
View full review »It is pretty stable. We have not had any major issues. There has been some issues here and there, but for the most part nothing major or critical.
View full review »Until now, I have not faced any stability issues.
View full review »It's very stable. We have had no incidents of crashing.
View full review »There are a couple of improvements that could be done on the agent side of APM. The agent stops collecting data if the machine is under stress. We lose that visibility at the worst time that it could be happening. I understand the agent works according to a store-and-forward type of architecture, so there's only so much it could do. Perhaps there is a different way that they could collect the data, rather then depending on whether the machine is up or not.
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itadmin435408
IT Administrator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We detected some issues on the web console in regards to its stability.
View full review »It’s very stable. It at least works to the specs. But we plan to push the solution more and, eventually, find out more about it.
View full review »It’s great, there are no issues with stability. We've just installed it, turned it on, and it just runs.
View full review »Outages with the solution are very frequent nowadays actually. We see the APM solution going down two to three times a day. And it’s a long troubleshooting cycle, as the CA APM system seems to add a lot of performance overhead.
View full review »Sometimes the workstation hangs or becomes unresponsive. However, the web application works worse, is ugly, and we prefer to use the workstation.
View full review »We have not had any issues with stability.
View full review »No, the application is very stable in our environment.
View full review »There have been no issues with stability. Sometimes there is something to fine-tune, but you have the help of the CA communities and eventually, the help of support.
View full review »The only issue is when the customer platform is really old. For example, where people are using client server apps developed on Delphi 1.0.
View full review »We're not really having issues. We're only half way through the total capacity that we've projected. We're currently at about 800,000 metrics. We originally wanted about two and a half million. We're getting there, slowly, but we're getting there.
View full review »It’s very stable. We haven’t had a single problem with this product.
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Alexandre JorgeFrança Gonçalves
IT Service Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have a good impression of the stability.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »There were no stability issues, i.e., not with its current features.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »We've had some challenges in the integration with the agent. It's had some conflicts from a Java-server perspective, but outside of that it's been very stable.
View full review »CA APM performs really well and I cannot remember the last time it crashed. Granted, we are not an enormous deployment!
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »The product is quite stable once the deployment is finished. Overall, the product properly deployed is quite stable.
View full review »In the previous releases, that was an issue for both my current and former companies. There was a conflict between the Java agent and our app servers. It was conflicting with some of the web services and so it crashed our servers. In the current release, however, I'm not aware of any such stability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues, in the newest version Workstation Works fine
View full review »We did encounter stability issues in regards to the DB access and the time it takes to navigate through the application.
View full review »Stability will be an issue if you install and configure it wrong. Otherwise, it's good and stable.
View full review »We've had no issues with APM and it has, in fact, been quite stable for us.
View full review »One of the biggest strengths with CA APM is that it is incredibly stable. In the 5 years I have used the toolset, I raised 2 support tickets about stability of which were resolved by configuration changes to suit the environment it was hosted in. The main deterrent of stability is whether it is designed to scale.
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Dharmendra-Singh
Specialist Operations(Windows) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
No issues with stability.
View full review »Yes, we enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure.
View full review »We are doing the PoC phase, so we have not done any of that kind of stability test.
View full review »It's stable, it's good enough.
View full review »It is very stable. We have not experienced any crashes. If we have any performance issues, we just edit some manager and we can continue.
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Luke Kabamba
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have not had stability issues. The product is very stable and corrective maintenance is provided regularly.
View full review »We have had stability issues. Not all applications are equal, and what works well for one app may not be applicable to another.
“Chatty” apps, excessive monitoring, or sampling can cause memory issues and server crashes resulting in a little bit of trial and error to determine monitoring levels that have minimal impact on performance and stability of environments.
View full review »It's pretty much stable tool.
View full review »Considering our large scale infrastructure and number of deployments, it is pretty much stable.
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reviewer1104816
Director Regional at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable solution.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »So far I haven't had any problems with stability.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Anuranjan Kumar
Technical Consultant at Grid Infocom Pvt Ltd
We have had no issues with the stability.
View full review »I have faced scalability and stability issues. When we needed to monitor a large number of data metrics, then these kind of issues occur.
View full review »Sometimes, the solution uses Java and this means you need a great environment to deliver high performance.
View full review »I think stability of the CA APM software is one of the strong points of the solution.
View full review »If proper CA recommendations are followed, there is no issues in stability. But CA should consider the capacity issues. There are times where capacity is reached and we face performance issues where the system becomes unstable.
View full review »Stability becomes a issue if it's wrongly configured. Defining incorrect business transactions and irregular use of SQL normalization are common causes of instability.
View full review »The tool is very stable and impressive.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability, but you should understand how it works and build accordingly.
View full review »Sometimes, we had stability issues.
View full review »We have been using CA APM for more than two years in production environments and no stability issues have arisen yet.
View full review »I think it's fantastic. Stability is really awesome.
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Ravi Suvvari
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have not experienced any stability issues with the product.
View full review »I have not encountered any issues with stability.
View full review »We did not have any stability problems.
View full review »We have had no stability issues.
View full review »I have to test it from version to version first before we implement to make sure it can perform for us.
View full review »It is the most stable tool I have ever used. We've had no issues with instability.
View full review »We didn’t have any performance problems or downtime with the tool.
View full review »It's pretty stable. I'm not the one who configures it but I'm the one who drills down to the reports and checks what went wrong. It's good.
We did have stability problems.
View full review »Yes, but due the product being installed on a VM environment without the proper I/O speed.
View full review »We haven't had any stability issues with CA APM.
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reviewer1395900
Techincal Support at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Stability-wise, I think that this is a superb solution and my customers have been rating it high.
View full review »The QA environment helps us to identify and fix stability issues and release it to production.
View full review »It's been very stable for me.
View full review »No, the product is very stable if the environment sizing is done properly.
View full review »We sometimes have issues with stability,
View full review »When we made the upgrade to 10.3 we have some problems with the new version.
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Yes, previous version APM infrastructure was not that stable. We have 5 collectors and collectors kept disconnecting from MOM, which caused false alert like JVM status.
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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