We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management offers a configuration and manager tool, code-level visibility, transaction monitoring, and a light model for monitoring servers. Datadog provides valuable features like dashboards and reporting, error reporting and log centralization, ease of use and setup, and a wide range of integrations. It also offers flexibility, observability, and the ability to search across logs from various microservices.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could benefit from enhancements in integration, front-end performance, support services, support for current technologies, and user experience monitoring. Datadog requires improvements in usability, integration, agent deployment, documentation, log reporting, dashboard loading time, advanced querying, and tutorials.
Service and Support: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has faced criticism for its technical support, leaving customers unsatisfied and wanting greater assistance. Datadog's customer service and support have garnered varying feedback, with some users finding it helpful and responsive, while others have encountered unresponsive support in specific areas.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with the initial setup of Broadcom, with some finding it quick and simple while others found it to be a lengthier process. The initial setup of Datadog is generally regarded as uncomplicated, with some users even receiving help during the setup.
Pricing: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has a setup cost based on a monthly licensing fee. Users recommend implementing limits on deploying the agent and pricing based on memory or CPU usage. Datadog's pricing and licensing experience differ among users. Some find it expensive while others find it reasonable compared to other solutions. Certain features can become expensive, leading to confusion with the pricing model.
Comparison Results: Datadog is the preferred choice over Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. It stands out for its easy setup, user-friendly interface, and valuable features like dashboards, error reporting, and log centralization. Users find it efficient, flexible, and highly useful for monitoring and troubleshooting.
"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"
"JVM memory monitoring and connection pool monitoring are valuable features."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"An application is quite complicated in the environment of a software reliability engineer, because our applications are like a black box. Thanks to CA APM we are able to transform this black box to a gray box by using the transaction trace functionality services. For me it's the most valuable service of the solution."
"Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."
"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."
"Now, we know we have a problem, because there is a primary layer of alerting or metrics monitoring put in place, that is the good part."
"Helps the development team to fine-tune and proactively manage the application."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"The technical support is very poor."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"Needs the ability to dynamically create dashboards. Right now, we do custom dashboards. Everything is created manually."
"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."
"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."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"Very often, we use tools such as Kibana or Jaspersoft for dashboards and reporting on CA APM data because CA APM’s old interfaces do not reflect well in modern displays, compared to those new tools."
"The upgrade was complex. The documentation could have been a little bit better, but other than that, it was okay."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 94 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Easy to set up and good UI but needs better customization capabilities". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and New Relic, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Datadog report.
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