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.
"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 monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"
"DEM-Q (Digital Experience Management Quadrant) is very useful. This is where they stand out with their dashboard, because it gives us a picture of how our company is doing compared to the other businesses out there."
"There are also built-in activities that let you measure things like preview mail, open address book, and send mail. Those are the activities that we are able to get measurements on, and those are things we have not seen in other software monitoring tools."
"It is useful for working out whether there are any issues in the network or between the endpoints. It is also useful for working out any performance issues. It has been useful for a lot of stuff around Teams. Our customers like to know what's happening with Teams when they call in. It is helpful for easily profiling users. It records all the applications that are being used for each user, and you can see what users are doing. It is very good in terms of performance. You don't have to wait forever to try and get reports or results. It is quite quick to get everything that you need out of the software."
"The application response time. That's what our business has been having a problem with."
"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."
"Measurement of response time"
"Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"We make custom dashboards for our development areas so they can understand how busy traffic affects their application with traffic. They can see how traffic directly affects their application in positive or negative ways."
"Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"We are using the on-premise and cloud versions of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The only thing I can say which has been frustrating are the Tableau workspace/dashboard options out-of-the-box, at least prior to version 8."
"Its user interface and features should be improved. They don't support new versions of certain Linux editions. That is one of the reasons why we have to move to another solution."
"For me, the biggest problem is the price. It is not so much about how much it costs. It is about Aternity only giving you 12 months upfront. So, you got to purchase it for 12 months. A lot of our customers are on a per-user-per-month type billing. They are all OPEX rather than CAPEX. It would be a lot better for our customers if there was an option available for OPEX so that it is billed on a monthly basis than a yearly basis. They've got only Windows agents. They don't actually have mobile agents. It would be a lot better if they could also integrate Android and iOS because then we can start pulling steps and performance management out of users' mobile devices. That's the biggest addition I would suggest at the moment. A lot of our customers have desktops as well as tablets or mobile devices. We should be able to monitor that stuff as well."
"It all comes in pretty nice looking charts and things, but we have a hard time pulling out hard data, which is usually what you'll need if you're trying to be actionable."
"I think the workflow needs improvement"
"They've additionally added some great color coding, but they need to explain better and drive down further on the meanings of this workflow."
"Integrating the tool with other products is a challenge."
"I would like to get more granular detail. In regards to defining the applications and activities upfront, that can be challenging. Simplifying that would be a big win. One of the things that I know they are already working on is a verbose mode."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"A CA APM agent takes a lot of memory. That is one disadvantage. If you configure CA APM correctly it will still consume around 15 to 20 percent of memory."
"I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead."
"The APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors."
"One of the challenges is agent releases. So as we employ agents, they are done relatively manually. A little bit of automating of agent release would be helpful."
"Needs custom dashboards."
"Our users lag how to identify the root cause with this solution. If they could come up with a more user-friendly version, that would be a good thing, since other vendors currently have better features and more user-friendly products than CA APM."
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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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