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We performed a comparison between CA App Synthetic Monitor and IBM Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Anonymous User
A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
Daniel Tamiru
A multi-functional solution but has poor stability and performance-related issues
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  • "IBM APM is one of the cheaper products on the market, while everything necessary to get started is included in the license."
  • "The licensing fees can be paid every six months or on a yearly basis."
  • "As I previously indicated, I initiated the IBM and uncovered all its elements. Consequently, I'm not inclined towards a licensing approach."

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    Questions from the Community
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CA App Synthetic ...
    Top Answer:The product comes with expensive annual licenses. The product is very good, very reliable but it costs a lot. Barracuda offers the same kind of services at a lower price.
    What needs improvement with CA App Synthetic Monitor?
    Top Answer:If you are responsible for monitoring the logs in F5, it isn't very easy. The format is complicated compared to different vendors. For example, Fortinet and Cisco have feasible formats for sending and… more »
    What is your primary use case for CA App Synthetic Monitor?
    Top Answer:If you are sending mail or browsing anything, you don't want to send your traffic without encryption. We use SSL for traffic encryption and ASM for SSL offloading. It is a proxy server for SSL. The… more »
    What do you like most about IBM Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
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    What needs improvement with IBM Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:They should focus on potentially enhancing the dashboard to make it more contemporary and adding some customization options. Furthermore, there might be room for improvement in the pricing policy. The… more »
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    What is your primary use case for IBM Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:I monitor business applications for more than four end users.
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    Ranking
    46th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    414
    Comparisons
    273
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    468
    Rating
    8.0
    52nd
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    1,287
    Comparisons
    800
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    298
    Rating
    6.0
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    CA ASM
    IBM APM
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    Overview

    IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.

    The IBM Application Performance Management portfolio provides visibility, control and automation of your mission-critical applications. It helps pinpoint the root cause of application's issue more quickly and resolve the problem. The integrated capabilities cover the five key areas: discovery, end-use experience, transaction tracking, enterprise diagnostics and analytics. It also easily monitors applications to ensure optimal performance to extend your hybrid management environment capabilities, to measure the customer experience from multiple locations and to further eliminate blind spots in your application environment.
    Sample Customers
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    Mibtree, EatDrinkDeals.com, IT Performance Advisor
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Government11%
    University7%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews while IBM Application Performance Management is ranked 52nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 7 reviews. CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0, while IBM Application Performance Management is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of CA App Synthetic Monitor writes "A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Application Performance Management writes "A multi-functional solution but has poor stability and performance-related issues". CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor, whereas IBM Application Performance Management is most compared with Instana Dynamic APM, Dynatrace, BMC Compuware Strobe, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager and AppDynamics.

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