We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace has a more user-friendly interface, better AI capabilities, and stronger support for container platforms compared to Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Dynatrace also offers more customization options for dashboards and better reporting capabilities.
"Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"Standard available reports provide us with an automatic insight into the top ten situations to watch. It would have been extremely difficult to program such a report ourselves, and to my knowledge no other competitor can match this functionality."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"We are able to spot issues much quicker with the use of the out-of-the-box metrics given to us by CA. But we also develop that further with the use of the EPA Agent and expand what we can give and show the business by creating our own scripts. This has allowed us to develop our own self-monitoring and before anybody else sees the issue we are on hand to solve that as quickly as possible."
"It helps us prioritize application performance issues. It has assisted triage where we can drill down and see where exactly the problem lies."
"We use it to create dashboards and executive view dashboards, so our higher up managers can take a look and see where our application status stands."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application."
"We can analyse problems more quickly, and detecting problems becomes easier with Dynatrace."
"For cloud, AI has been pretty useful so far when it comes to IT's ability to scale."
"It severely reduces the time spent doing performance test cycles."
"You get a good insight into what is going on inside your code."
"Our customers are now able to control their infrastructure with a single tool, and can easily check the connections with all components."
"Auto alerting and reporting on the application and the infrastructure aid us in delivering our service with greater value."
"The web dashboard is very simple to use."
"Knowing what services are impacted by infrastructure host issues is critical to the service we offer."
"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."
"One of the challenges is agent releases. So as we employ agents, they are done relatively manually. A little bit of automating of agent release would be helpful."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"The technical support is very poor."
"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."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
"Documentation needs to be centralized."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"The integration with PagerDuty is currently broken on mobile."
"If there was something that could be done at a local developer's station, something like, "Hey, here's a hint, this thing looks like it might not be optimized," or the like. I think more development features, to hedge that performance would be good."
"One piece that we think that's missing is, there were thread names that were missing in analytical information in the Dynatrace solution, versus the AppMon solution. The AppMon solution gives you that information, and it is very helpful for connecting dots and bringing all the pieces together."
"I would like them to add serverless capabilities, because everyone is going there."
"Beginner video tutorials would really help."
"It could be more affordable and therefore, more widely used by including more features like DEM as part of licensing cost rather than an additional expense."
"I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly."
"Better root cause detection and improve root cause categories. In some cases, the root cause points out only a clue of what has happened."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 4th in Container Monitoring with 161 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. 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 Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Dynatrace report.
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