We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor offers more customization, monitoring abilities for cloud resources across multiple subscriptions, and better troubleshooting features. It is also more flexible, low-cost, and integrates well with other Microsoft technologies. Additionally, it has received more positive feedback for initial setup and pricing. Despite both products having mixed reviews on customer service and support, Azure Monitor is considered a robust and stable product that scales well and offers a one-stop place to monitor all resources.
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"We receive good transactions from it with good graphs, as well, documenting the activities of total visitors on the site. We can pull the reports and provide them to the client, as required."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application."
"Helps the development team to fine-tune and proactively manage the application."
"With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool"
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team. It saves lots of time for APM team."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"The APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support is slow to respond and also asks redundant questions."
"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "Helps us test the performance and efficiency of cloud applications; good log analysis". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana, whereas Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and New Relic. See our Azure Monitor vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management report.
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