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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
April 2024
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Decent tool, needs additional integration with automation tool
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A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
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Top Answer:The product comes with expensive annual licenses. The product is very good, very reliable but it costs a lot. Barracuda offers the same kind of services at a lower price.
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Top Answer:If you are responsible for monitoring the logs in F5, it isn't very easy. The format is complicated compared to different vendors. For example, Fortinet and Cisco have feasible formats for sending and… more »
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Top Answer:If you are sending mail or browsing anything, you don't want to send your traffic without encryption. We use SSL for traffic encryption and ASM for SSL offloading. It is a proxy server for SSL. The… more »
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72nd
out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Views
186
Comparisons
147
Reviews
0
Average Words per Review
0
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46th
out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Views
414
Comparisons
273
Reviews
1
Average Words per Review
468
Rating
8.0
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Overview
Actional (CX-Monitor) automatically discovers both systems and processes associated with your active customer journeys or applications and gives you real-time operational profiles and analysis of each system and process.

IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.

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Actional is ranked 72nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews. Actional is rated 9.0, while CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Actional writes "Decent tool, needs additional integration with automation tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA App Synthetic Monitor writes "A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic". Actional is most compared with CentraSite, whereas CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor.

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