We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."If there's something that you really need to get at that doesn't come out of the box, you can pretty easily put together some custom metrics and get those in place."
"The APM tool allows us to monitor performance of that application, where are the pain points, where are the slowdowns, to focus on where we can fix those."
"For me, the most valuable feature is being able to check memory patterns. We check them when we do load testing or soak testing to see if there are any memory leaks."
"We are able to spot issues much quicker with the use of the out-of-the-box metrics given to us by CA. But we also develop that further with the use of the EPA Agent and expand what we can give and show the business by creating our own scripts. This has allowed us to develop our own self-monitoring and before anybody else sees the issue we are on hand to solve that as quickly as possible."
"Gives us the ability to know how our application is performing in real-time."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"Proactive snapshots of transactions and all details of a transaction are saved in case of an error."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"The ability to track performance of an application or application suite over time is extremely valuable to our business partners and for our application development team with near real time results."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment."
"The technical support is very poor."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first."
"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 product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"They can make it easier to configure."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] 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 Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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