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 most valuable features for us are the Incident Management dashboard, Application Status dashboard, and Activity Analysis UI."
"The data the solution provides is valuable to us; we can see the health of the machines, how they are performing, and what might be causing issues on a particular machine."
"The application response time. That's what our business has been having a problem with."
"The data collected by the agents on each end point is the most valuable feature for us."
"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"As a financial institution, we have a lot of applications that are either written internally or bought from a vendor and customized for us. Having a tool that lets us monitor specific transactions in those applications allows us to focus on the transactions that are important to the business."
"The dashboard is very effective."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"Helps the development team to fine-tune and proactively manage the application."
"It helps us prioritize application performance issues. It has assisted triage where we can drill down and see where exactly the problem lies."
"We use it to create dashboards and executive view dashboards, so our higher up managers can take a look and see where our application status stands."
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"The deep-process instrumentation gave us an opportunity to understand application process performance in detail."
"Users no longer need to depend upon the console for a compatible Java version. Now, users can directly learn the version, perform all their actions, and see all of those performance-related issues."
"Reports were a lot easier in the older versions"
"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."
"We are waiting for the GA release of their agent. I hope they can do better when they release their endpoint agents. Right now, we are not able to measure some applications, core applications, because it's relying on a specific version of the agent and that agent has not come out yet and there's no ETA. I would like to see them speed up time to market when they release agents."
"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."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"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."
"The licensing model doesn't suit the market we are in and has room for improvement."
"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."
"The following need improvement: 1) Integration of third-party content into app maps (e.g. data coming from beats/elastic platform). 2) Support of new application server technologies, time to adopt new versions of them. 3) Dashboarding capabilities (as with all other vendors). 4) Application architecture of the central Enterprise Manager should be developed into a cloud native architecture. 5) Mitigation of SPOF – PostgreSQL database, behind Team Center."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"Technical support is slow to respond and also asks redundant questions."
"The solution still needs the administrator of APM to know a lot more to configure and control everything. So it's a headache for the administrator to do the daily jobs."
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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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