We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and SCOM 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."Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"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."
"It's a very stable product."
"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."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"A CA APM agent takes a lot of memory. That is one disadvantage. If you configure CA APM correctly it will still consume around 15 to 20 percent of memory."
"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."
"You can sell licenses and install the full tool on service, you can show customers how to install, but how to use it and solve issues cannot be done without the experience."
"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."
"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while SCOM 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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