We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application 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: SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor offers advantageous features like infrastructure dependency mapping, thorough monitoring of processes and services, and robust network devices' performance monitoring. Although both products have inconsistent customer service and support feedback, SolarWinds has a more favorable return on investment and is more budget-friendly, making it the preferred solution.
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"We make custom dashboards for our development areas so they can understand how busy traffic affects their application with traffic. They can see how traffic directly affects their application in positive or negative ways."
"The time it takes to track problems in applications is the most valuable return that we have from this solution."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"We did the setup for a new datacenter, and that was pretty straightforward."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"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"
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"Support could be much better."
"Technical support is slow to respond and also asks redundant questions."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"Stability could actually be helped because it is a wrapper or an agent on our system. If we are having a bad day in production or if other resources are being utilized, then we will get get gaps in our monitoring system."
"It should be easier to install or set everything up. "
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"The APM SQL feature doesn't perform like we would like it to. I know that's a new feature with 10.5, so it may be one of those things that gets a little better, but it should run faster."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". 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 Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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