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A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
Christian Campos
Integrates well with IBM technologies, but it's outdated and lacks essential features
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  • "I would rate the pricing a nine to ten. It is very expensive."

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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 Tivoli Composite Application Manager?
    Top Answer:IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used.
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    What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager?
    Top Answer:Implementing synthetic monitoring for our Internet banking site has been challenging. The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited… more »
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    What advice do you have for others considering IBM Tivoli Composite Appli...
    Top Answer:I would rate IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager a six out of ten. The monitoring tool we currently use is outdated and lacks essential features for monitoring customer experience. We face… more »
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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
    53rd
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    859
    Comparisons
    545
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    445
    Rating
    6.0
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    Also Known As
    CA ASM
    Tivoli Composite Application Manager
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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.

    IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS manages real-time problem detection, analysis, and repair to help maintain the availability, performance and general health of on-demand composite applications. it can gain in-depth diagnostic information for specific application requests to identify the root cause of problems. This software provides a consistent way to manage composite applications throughout Java EE application environments. Set alerts to help detect and fix potentially troublesome situations before they affect users. It can resolve performance issues faster and reduce downtime costs.
    Sample Customers
    Lexmark
    Michelin Tire Corp
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government8%
    Non Profit4%
    Company Size
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews while IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is ranked 53rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews. CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0, while IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is rated 6.6. 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 Tivoli Composite Application Manager writes "Integrates well with IBM technologies, but it's outdated and lacks essential features". CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor, whereas IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is most compared with Dynatrace, IBM Application Performance Management and Azure Monitor.

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