We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pricing and Cost Advice
"Depends on the size of the product you need."
"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"Negotiate a lot, but do not forget to buy the product because it is worth it."
"Pricing and licensing are not issues."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
"Dynatrace is the most expensive of these tools followed by AppDynamics which is "medium-expensive." CA APM is a bit lower in price than either Dynatrace or AppDynanics... In my opinion, if you can afford it, go for AppDynamics instead of CA APM."
Top Answer: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.
Top Answer:The pricing structure should be based on memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents, as it makes the solution more expensive for us. The pricing structure is too high and becomes… more »
Top Answer:The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings. Broadcom needs to work on application instrumentation and the… more »
Monitor on-premise applications in virtualized environments
Monitor applications running on AWS and Azure
Monitor applications running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Redhat OpenShift and
Heroku
Support for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Redhat OpenShift. Heroku is a future roadmap item.
Configuration and Infrastructure
Configuration and management through a single, web-based user interface
Automatically create a visualization of the entire application topology with all
components.
Automatically discover business transactions
Automatically discover standard back end systems (database, web services, SAP
etc.)
Discover and display non-standard backend systems through point-and-click
configuration
Automatically baseline every component within the business transaction
Can be deployed in multi-tenant environment
Application Visibility and Control
Provide correlated views of distributed business transactions between
tiers/services
Automatically baseline every component within the Business Transaction
Provide code level diagnostics (class & method-level visibility) of business
transactions
Monitor JVM health information (heap, GC, generational spaces, etc.)
Monitor CPU utilization, OS memory usage, disk I/O, network I/O, other hardware
metrics
Report application errors & exceptions
Automatically monitor entire call stack when application problems occur
Does not disable monitoring functionality as a compromise to limit product
overhead
Historical performance monitoring and trending
Full view of infrastructure details without leaving context of business
transactions
Single UI for server and application monitoring
Alert on deviation from baseline
Mean Time To Repair
Identify slow and stalled business transactions without manual intervention
Count, measure and score every transaction
Identify error business transactions without manual intervention
Identify slow SQL queries without manual intervention
Identify slow backend systems or external services without manual intervention
Automatically discover code deadlocks
Provide quick cross launching into problem areas within the UI through hyperlinked
alerts
Automatically send email containing hyperlink to identified problem
Automatic analysis of end-to-end APM data to provide root cause analysis
Business Transactions
Automatically discover business transactions
Automatically learn and baseline performance of discovered business transactions
Automatically count, measure and score every transaction
Discover synchronous, asynchronous and multi-threaded business transactions
Business Metrics
Provide visibility into the impact of outages on business metrics
Capture business metrics (e.g. revenue, orders) from applications and background
jobs
Enables creation of custom dashboards for business metrics and application
behavior
Out of the box reports on business transaction summary and trends
Automatically correlate business transactions with environment monitoring (OS, JMX,
etc.)
Usability
Browser-based web client
Automatic & dynamic baselining of all metrics to reduce false alarms
Include an online virtual collaboration space as a virtual "war room"
Visualize multiple applications and the connectivity / dependencies between them
Enable sharing of analysis/ visualizations without having to export data from the
UI
Group transactions using a Session ID and display transactions in order of
execution
Drill down from business transaction to correlated log file entries in single
platform
Available through CA's Log Analytics solution which can be integrated with APM
Historical Trending
Trending with metric persistence to do historical analysis and compare to
baselines
The ability to view and drill into Flow Map for extended periods up to 1 year
The ability to compare Flow Maps from different time frames for up to 2 years
Support for Agile
Dynamic instrumentation of the application
No need to reconfigure agent instrumentation when new app releases are deployed
Automatically pick up application configuration changes as a result of agile
releases
Regression analysis to compare and highlight app performance improvements
Areas of poor metric stability (differential analysis) and architectural potential (high call ratio) for
improvement are analyzed, but through more advanced logic than regression
Provide capability to compare business transactions flows for different releases
Pre-Production Performance Tuning
Identify the longest running methods in business transactions
Determine relationship between increased load and application response time
Identify worst backend calls (Database, Web Services, other backend) automatically
Provide business transaction performance change from one code release to the next
Scalability and Infrastructure
Support at least 5000 agents on a single platform without requiring data
federation
Ability to support high availability APM infrastructure servers
Has steady network traffic between agent and APM server regardless of transaction
levels
Encrypt data transmissions end-to-end across the environment
Agentless monitoring
Analytics
Single UI incorporating Analytics and APM modules
Analytics UI is web browser based with no locally installed client software
Analytics layer providing intelligence across data collected by APM modules
Scalable repository capable of collecting and storing large volume of
metrics/events
In context drill down between analytics data and APM data
Graphical query builder for ease of use and broad adoption
Ability to adjust timeframe via click and drag on dashboard charts
Automated ranking (top N) of relevancy of every indexed field to current selection
Configurable to collect not all, but specific desired transaction data/fields
Alert off of metrics created in analytics based on search criteria
Analytics data collection does not require full call method stack data
No code changes required to pull custom (non-native) metrics into data repository
Data collected, stored and analysed in near real time (i.e. not hours, days, or weeks
later)
API to input custom metrics
Search API
Ability to chart result set in custom dashboards
Granular role based access control (RBAC)
Log Analytics
Ability to collect and store log files from monitored nodes
Available via CA's log analytics solution which can be integrated with APM
Log file data through TCP
Available via CA's log analytics solution which can be integrated with APM
Auto-inject business transaction identifier for each log statement
Can be configured via custom tracer, requires integration with logging framework
Ability to extract any field from log file for processing
Available via CA's log analytics solution which can be integrated with APM
Root Cause Analysis
Historical performance monitoring and trending - retain 100% of historical data
Report top database activities (e.g. Top SQL, Top Users, Top Programs)
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is a cutting-edge next-generation APM that goes beyond the traditional aspects of what other APMs provide by offering fully integrated AIOPS (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) capabilities embedded in the solution. This enables Broadcom DX Application Performance Management better opportunities to detect anomalies faster, correctly anticipate behavior, and perform intuitive automatic corrective processes. The solution is able to provide comprehensive full stack end-to-end monitoring and deliver complete visibility and a nearly flawless user experience.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has many valuable key features. Some of its most useful features include:
Improves visibility: Users gain complete 360-degree visibility with all applications, infrastructure, and end users in modern, traditional, and all cloud-based environments.
Continuous improvement: Intuitive automated feedback is provided throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Scalability: The solution is easily scalable to the enterprise level with very easy to use administration.
Improved user experience: The solution provides intuitive dynamic insights concerning overall application performance and across the complete user journey.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Features
There are many benefits to implementing Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
Custom personalized dashboards: Users are able to create their own specific views based on unique task-driven individualized requirements. This allows for comprehensive intuitive cross-domain analysis of the entire ecosystem and application usage from both synthetic and real user perspectives.
Fast, straightforward deployment: The solution offers an automated, zero-touch deployment process that better facilitates the monitoring and discovery of cloud-based and container applications.
Improved administration processes: Agent administration and overall lifecycle processes are simplified, making configurations, deployments, and upgrades very simple.
Intuitive analysis: The solutions AIOPS processes provide for inherent root-cause detection and anomaly discovery to diagnose potential issues or problems immediately.
Improved visibility: Presented views are task-relevant to facilitate improved group topologies, and time-based to display the impact of performance anomalies.
Improved mapping: Relationship mapping enables users to visualize all aspects of the environment with options to deep dive across entire applications, network layers, and infrastructure.
Application support: The solution has functionality with Java, .Net, PHP, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, and more.
Flexibility: The solution is available both on premises and as a SaaS.
Reviews from Real Users
“The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management for me is transaction monitoring. “ A Peerspot user who is an Applications Engineer at a financial services firm.
“The most valuable features are the low overhead, the ability to monitor production on 24/7 principle, the ability to decrease time to discover the point of failure in the IT infrastructure or the application environment in a short period of time, reporting for analyzing the performance of the application for improving the code optimizing process.” A.Jurisic, CEO at Pio Pet d.o.o.
“What is most valuable about this solution is that it completely monitors code-level visibility. We benefit from this as we're able to capture any performance issues from an application, then raise and forward those issues to the applicable team more quickly.” S. Doddi, APM consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited
Sematext Experience is a real user monitoring solution that offers 100% visibility into your website or web app that affects your users’ experience.
It allows you to inspect individual sessions to get page-level specifics. This helps assess the user’s satisfaction to prevent customer loss due to poor performance. Furthermore, you can set up alerts for Apdex score, script errors, and page load time and receive real-time notifications whenever performance anomalies are detected. this, in turn, will enable you to troubleshoot issues faster.
Sematext Experience was designed so DevOps and BizOps can work together. Having easy access to all your actionable data provides your whole team with in-depth insights. With this data, effectual decisions can be made with ease to ensure your customers are always satisfied.
Sematext Cloud benefits
Easy installation Fill in the App Name, usually, the domain of your website (e.g. www.sematext.com) will work well for this purpose. Choose between SPA and the standard website, and follow the displayed instructions based on your selection to add snippets to your website.
Single-page application support With real user measurement, you can monitor page performance and resource usage of your single-page applications. We support major SPA frameworks such as React, Ember.js, Angular, and Vue.js, as well as monitor all fired HTTP requests. Dive into page-load time and get a headstart on application performance-related issues.
Individual session performance See where and why real users encountered performance issues like slow page loading and errors by tracing their user journeys. With individual visit reporting, you can identify customer satisfaction and prevent loss due to poor service. Track page load events, on-page transactions, and HTTP requests made during the session to troubleshoot issues more quickly. Get detailed crash reporting and an overview of error-free users.
Inspect Page load events Choose your favorite chart to get a complete resource view showing assets that are causing your pages to load slowly, along with a detailed load time analysis. Charts with page load events display users' online and backend activity. Analyze images, fonts, style sheets, and JavaScript files' loading times.
Monitor your Apdex score Make sure your website or web application has a fast loading time and determine whether an HTTP request succeeded or failed and how that affects your Apdex Score. Analyze what your Apdex Score is and what is affecting it.
Real-time automatic alerts Receive real-time alerts when your site's performance is adversely affected by page load time and Apdex score. Detect anomalies and get real-time alerts when your site's performance is affected by page load speed.
Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Cloud
Combine the power of metrics, logs, and end-user monitoring under one roof with Sematext Cloud
First-class support for popular frontend frameworks such as React, Ember, and Angular
URL grouping for both page-load events and HTTP requests
Powerful cost control using data sampling
Has a solution for synthetic monitoring
Error tracking
Reduce performance-related issues by having 100% visibility into what areas are affecting UX
Connect your DevOps and BizOps teams to manage and improve your customers’ experience with real-time data and metrics
Get alerts in real-time when a bug is affecting performance or user satisfaction
Track page loads, HTTP requests, resources, UI interactions, and more!
inspect individual user sessions and page-level specifics
Monitor web core vitals
Where to go from here?
Sign-up for the 14-day free trial to see what Sematext Experience can do for you. No credit card is needed. The pricing starts at $9/mo for 25K views/month and 7 day retention period. And if you want to explore the benefits of a full-stack monitoring solution, adding logs and metrics to your dashboard is as easy as a few clicks away.
Sample Customers
Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
24Software, Aawebsolutions, Adore Beauty, Adpumb, Agmatix, Auction Marketer, AutoSen, Bixlabs, Braunmann, CarParts.com, ClientPoint, cloudconsult.com, CMA CGM, CodeCombat, CoinSocialStory, Depth-Sa, Devopsplex, Easy4Pro, Ekcsoft, Empire State Realty Trust, eralabs, EVA, Flash, Fom8, Giddh, Giftcash, Gkpwebsolutions, GMXAmerica, Goodbye Graffiti, Grey, Groupbam, GS Microsystems, Gustave A. Larson Company, Health Catalyst, Hyperzod, Inatech, Indeego, Jan Ptáček, MediaScience, Mediasciencelabs, Moment House, MyWorkwear, North Star Network, Noveo Group, Nucleus, ObjectifSEO, Orhitec, Pel Soft Labs Pvt Ltd, Pepper, PeterPrint, Pharmacies BENU, QIMA, Redspher, Reply, Section, Sleeper, Srh-Campus-Berlin, Star Digital, TP EQUIPMENT LEASING, Telna, Upela, ViQi, Wavestone, Wevr, Yoctu
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Sematext Experience is ranked 12th in User Activity Monitoring. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Sematext Experience is rated 0.0. 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, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and New Relic, whereas Sematext Experience is most compared with .
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