We performed a comparison between Alluvio Aternity and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Alluvio Aternity has various valuable features including detailed machine health and performance data, monitoring of usage patterns for desktop applications, and a UXI score for user experience. It also provides visibility of endpoint machines, monitoring of operating systems, CPU and memory utilization, and application access analysis. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is highly valued for its easy deployment of parameters through its configuration and manager tool. It also offers compatibility, straightforward initial setup, code-level visibility for quick issue resolution, transaction monitoring, reliable technical support, and a light model for monitoring servers and network items.
Alluvio Aternity could improve its reporting capabilities, asset management customization, performance counters, and database monitoring options. Broadcom DX needs better integration, an updated front-end application, improved support services, prompt addressing of CPU spikes and memory issues, automated end-to-end correlation, improved container and cloud support, and compatibility with OpenShift 4 without an installed agent.
Service and Support: Alluvio has excellent support, with a prompt and skilled technical support team. Local support is provided, but some complex technical issues may require assistance from overseas engineers. Broadcom DX has received varied feedback, with certain users expressing dissatisfaction. Suggestions have been made for improving the support, particularly around service level agreements.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Alluvio was praised for being excellent, uncomplicated, intuitive, and direct. It entailed deploying agents to PCs through Microsoft's SCCM solution. The initial setup for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management varied in terms of speed and complexity. Some users found it to be quick and straightforward, while others noted that it was not overly complicated yet took more time.
Pricing: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has a pricing structure that is costly and becomes more expensive as the number of agents increases. Some users find it to be expensive. On the other hand, Alluvio Aternity is considered to have reasonable and favorable pricing. However, it may not be suitable for customers with fewer than 500 agents.
Comparison Results: Alluvio Aternity is the preferred product when compared to Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Users find the setup process for Alluvio Aternity to be great, easy, simple, user-friendly, and straightforward. Alluvio Aternity offers valuable features such as machine health and performance data, customization options, and a user-friendly dashboard.
"It is a tool that helps me check users' computers really quickly without having a help desk administrator logging in and doing analysis. Anyone who has access to Aternity, including our support team, can log onto Aternity and do a quick, basic analysis."
"The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes."
"The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us."
"Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application."
"The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."
"The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it."
"The dashboards of this platform are the most valuable, especially the Desktop Health dashboard."
"The ability to quickly utilize the dashboard to gather information is valuable from a DXI perspective."
"The ability to accomplish the identification of the root cause of problems with applications in drill-down level by integrating the suite with tools for managing and monitoring."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."
"Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."
"The solution's downloadable reports could be improved."
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions."
"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."
"Their technical support should be improved in terms of response time. Its stability should also be better. We are currently using version 10, and its stability is not so high. The server crashes from time to time and needs to be restarted. Sometimes, you also have problems with applications."
"I would say the reporting capabilities of this product could use room for improvement."
"Potentially, the one thing that could probably help with better levels of enterprise adoption is around creating the application monitoring signatures. That process can be a little bit difficult. If one thing could be simplified a little bit, it would be the application monitoring signature creation process."
"In terms of a new feature, it would be good if we could restrict a user to a specific application or server. We have several customers, and we have to set up one or two servers for each customer. We have to set up one server for production and one for the test environment. Each user at the customer level can see all applications and the data of all applications, which is not really useful and good. We should be able to restrict user access at the application level or server level."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"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."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"They can make it easier to configure."
"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"Its profiling. The uniqueness instead of me looking at sampling data, I need to know the m-1 event that actually triggered my scenario where that m event caused a catastrophic event, like a ripple effect; I need to know that m-1. What triggered my major event means I need to understand the event that triggered it and before the cause of that event itself."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
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Alluvio Aternity is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management writes "Provides efficiency in migration and DAW but requires a high level of administrator knowledge for configuration". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management report.
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