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A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
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We also gain some insight into our business partners performance and can often point out to them when they're having...
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  • "I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."
  • "The price is expensive for us."
  • "Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."
  • "Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."

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    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
    Unranked
    In Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
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    Also Known As
    CA ASM
    Foglight, Dell Foglight
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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.

    Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.
    Sample Customers
    Lexmark
    Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com
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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Educational Organization11%
    Computer Software Company11%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.

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