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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
April 2024
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We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and CA App Synthetic Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Rajkumar Reghu Varma
Useful in monitoring end-user activity, website speed and key business metrics
It has a lot of features, and it provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base, business parameters and key business... Read more →
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A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
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  • "This price of this product is expensive."
  • "AppDynamics is more expensive than competitors."
  • "AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring does have licensing cost associated with it."
  • "AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."
  • "We have two different licensing models for this solution. One of them is the agent based model, which requires payment per agent. The other is an infrastructure based model, where the price is based on the CPU core. For the infrastructure model wholesale level pricing applies. All of the up to date licensing prices for this product are available on the manufacturers website."
  • "The pricing needs to come down."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring?
    Top Answer:One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Brows...
    Top Answer:The pricing falls within the mid-range category. I would rate it between three to five because considering the features provided, it offers value for money. If utilized effectively, the investment is… more »
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    What needs improvement with AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring?
    Top Answer:In user monitoring, AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring should provide a better user experience. It needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements… more »
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CA App Synthetic ...
    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.
    What needs improvement with CA App Synthetic Monitor?
    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 »
    What is your primary use case for CA App Synthetic Monitor?
    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 »
    Ranking
    22nd
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    719
    Comparisons
    566
    Reviews
    7
    Average Words per Review
    649
    Rating
    8.3
    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
    Comparisons
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    CA ASM
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    Overview

    How do real users experience your browser-based applications? Using browser real-user monitoring follow their journey and optimize their experience with powerful end-to-end performance management that rapidly identifies application issues and relevant business transactions, and dramatically reduces MTTR.

    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.

    Sample Customers
    Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Retailer7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business38%
    Large Enterprise62%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring writes "End-to-end visibility, feature-rich, but the support could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA App Synthetic Monitor writes "A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor.

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