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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. SolarWinds Pingdom
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Marco Aurelio
Simple setup, light on resources, but lacking compatibility with applications
The bank here in Brazil, and the world, need to ensure that transactions are processed in the shortest amount of time possible. We closely monitor... Read more →
Jay Vekaria
High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs.""If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly.""Proactive snapshots of transactions and all details of a transaction are saved in case of an error.""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.""Being able to pull in and merge the infrastructure and application data.""Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand.""The configuration and the manager tool are good features.""The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."

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"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive.""Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time""The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting.""There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."

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Cons
"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.""With respect to SQL monitoring, it would be nice to have a little more information because it doesn't provide the full statement all of the time.""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.""The stability could be more reliable.""They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this.""User interface - CA is moving towards HTML5, but still a lot is Java, old fashioned, non-customizable and not user friendly. It’s look and feel is still too technical.""Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current.""The interface is getting a little old."

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"Technical support could use some improvement.""I would like to see better integration with other products.""Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI.""Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."

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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."

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  • "This price of this solution is reasonable."
  • "The license was paid yearly and included technical support."
  • "While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
    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.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom DX Appli...
    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 »
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    What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
    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 »
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    What do you like most about SolarWinds Pingdom?
    Top Answer:One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive.
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    What needs improvement with SolarWinds Pingdom?
    Top Answer:Some of the functions could improve by making them easier. There is room for improvement when it comes to the graphs provided by the software. Additionally, there seems to be an issue with the ping… more »
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    What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Pingdom?
    Top Answer:SolarWinds Pingdom and Cloudflare are third-party applications that we utilize through a browser without any additional setup. We simply rely on their services, which is why I lack familiarity with… more »
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    Ranking
    25th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    2,051
    Comparisons
    1,056
    Reviews
    6
    Average Words per Review
    855
    Rating
    7.5
    47th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    908
    Comparisons
    587
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    553
    Rating
    7.5
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
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    Overview

    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 Benefits

    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 

    SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It’s one product providing comprehensive web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:

    1. Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more.

    2. Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings.

    3. Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions. 

    4. Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance. 

    Sample Customers
    Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
    Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Insurance Company13%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Insurance Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization54%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company3%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise28%
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    Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. 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 SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.

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