We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management offers a configuration and manager tool, code-level visibility, transaction monitoring, and a light model for monitoring servers. Datadog provides valuable features like dashboards and reporting, error reporting and log centralization, ease of use and setup, and a wide range of integrations. It also offers flexibility, observability, and the ability to search across logs from various microservices.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could benefit from enhancements in integration, front-end performance, support services, support for current technologies, and user experience monitoring. Datadog requires improvements in usability, integration, agent deployment, documentation, log reporting, dashboard loading time, advanced querying, and tutorials.
Service and Support: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has faced criticism for its technical support, leaving customers unsatisfied and wanting greater assistance. Datadog's customer service and support have garnered varying feedback, with some users finding it helpful and responsive, while others have encountered unresponsive support in specific areas.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with the initial setup of Broadcom, with some finding it quick and simple while others found it to be a lengthier process. The initial setup of Datadog is generally regarded as uncomplicated, with some users even receiving help during the setup.
Pricing: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has a setup cost based on a monthly licensing fee. Users recommend implementing limits on deploying the agent and pricing based on memory or CPU usage. Datadog's pricing and licensing experience differ among users. Some find it expensive while others find it reasonable compared to other solutions. Certain features can become expensive, leading to confusion with the pricing model.
Comparison Results: Datadog is the preferred choice over Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. It stands out for its easy setup, user-friendly interface, and valuable features like dashboards, error reporting, and log centralization. Users find it efficient, flexible, and highly useful for monitoring and troubleshooting.
"Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms."
"I found the solution's end-to-end analysis and flexibility most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management for me is transaction monitoring. The technical support provided for the solution is also an advantage."
"The deep-process instrumentation gave us an opportunity to understand application process performance in detail."
"We are able to easily and quickly find some of the problems with the applications and coding, and some of the performance problems."
"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"What comes to mind when you speak of a room for improvement in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is the infrastructure agent, but my company doesn't use it, so I can't say if it's really a problem or not, but it could be the container support or cloud support that could be improved in the solution. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is for it to have one agent for cloud and one agent for legacy, with all features included."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"In order for the tool to be successful, at least in our organization, it will need to have more self-serve features for implementation, instrumentation, and then modification of metric data from the APM."
"The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment."
"With respect to SQL monitoring, it would be nice to have a little more information because it doesn't provide the full statement all of the time."
"The APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. 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 Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, New Relic and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Datadog report.
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