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CA App Synthetic Monitor

Read 3 CA App Synthetic Monitor reviews
414 views|273 comparisons
66% willing to recommend
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75% willing to recommend
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
April 2024
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Anonymous User
A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
Ravi Suvvari
Very good for transaction level monitoring, but expensive and HP needs better support and training
able to identify exact root cause
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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 »
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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
33rd
out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Views
579
Comparisons
389
Reviews
1
Average Words per Review
374
Rating
10.0
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Also Known As
CA ASM
Micro Focus Diagnostics, MF Diagnostics
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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.

Diagnostics software monitors application transaction health in traditional, virtualized and cloud environments allowing quick isolation and resolution of issues. It gives you a common tool to easily collaborate across the entire application lifecycle and release higher-quality applications. Diagnostics software provides deep drill down into transactions from the end user through the back end. And it uniquely serves as a single tool set for pre-production and production to diagnose application performance bottlenecks quickly and improve quality.
Sample Customers
Lexmark
BSkyB, Alior Bank
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VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Computer Software Company23%
Financial Services Firm12%
Manufacturing Company9%
Educational Organization8%
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VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business16%
Midsize Enterprise11%
Large Enterprise73%
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CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews while OpenText Diagnostics is ranked 33rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0, while OpenText Diagnostics is rated 7.8. 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 OpenText Diagnostics writes "Very good for transaction level monitoring, but expensive and HP needs better support and training". CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor, whereas OpenText Diagnostics is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Accedian Skylight.

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