We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Broadcom is praised for its simple implementation and setup process, along with its code-level visibility, transaction monitoring feature, and dependable technical assistance. Meanwhile, VMware Tanzu is highly regarded for its effortless deployment, ability to integrate with various platforms, support for container environments, and impressive scalability.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management reviews suggest the need for improvements in various areas such as integration, front-end performance, support, CPU and memory issues, end-to-end correlation automation, and compatibility with OpenShift 4. VMware Tanzu improvements include the need for enhancements in the billing model, customizable metrics and dashboards, licensing, documentation, and the initial setup process.
Service and Support: Some users of Broadcom DX expressed dissatisfaction; others praised the helpfulness. Suggestions have been made for improvement in commitment to service-level agreements. Similarly, users of VMware Tanzu Observability have had varied experiences with some users not requiring support, and others facing issues around longer wait times.
Ease of Deployment: Broadcom users had mixed experiences with the initial setup, with some users finding it fast and straightforward, while others mentioned it took about two months. VMware Tanzu had a varied setup process among reviewers. Some found it easy and quick, while others found it complex, especially when setting up clusters.
Pricing: Broadcom DX utilizes a monthly licensing fee for its setup cost, and users propose that the pricing structure should be tied to memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents. In contrast, VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is deemed costly, with reviewers highlighting supplementary expenses for integrations and add-ons.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, VMware Tanzu is the preferred choice over Broadcom DX. Users found the setup of VMware Tanzu Observability to be quick and easy, taking only hours or minutes. Users also praised the deployment and integration of VMware Tanzu Observability, as well as its support for container platforms and scalability.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"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."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"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 configuration and the manager tool are good features."
"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."
"The insight it gives into the applications that it's actually applied to, and the flexibility to do many things with those metrics, and also feed your own metrics from external sources."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"No issues with stability."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."
"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."
"Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve its supportability to the current technologies and the end-to-end correlation feature should be done automatically without custom configurations. Additionally, there should not be any configuration changes to the client-side when deploying the solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, New Relic and OpenText Diagnostics, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog and Zabbix. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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