We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Broadcom is praised for its simple implementation and setup process, along with its code-level visibility, transaction monitoring feature, and dependable technical assistance. Meanwhile, VMware Tanzu is highly regarded for its effortless deployment, ability to integrate with various platforms, support for container environments, and impressive scalability.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management reviews suggest the need for improvements in various areas such as integration, front-end performance, support, CPU and memory issues, end-to-end correlation automation, and compatibility with OpenShift 4. VMware Tanzu improvements include the need for enhancements in the billing model, customizable metrics and dashboards, licensing, documentation, and the initial setup process.
Service and Support: Some users of Broadcom DX expressed dissatisfaction; others praised the helpfulness. Suggestions have been made for improvement in commitment to service-level agreements. Similarly, users of VMware Tanzu Observability have had varied experiences with some users not requiring support, and others facing issues around longer wait times.
Ease of Deployment: Broadcom users had mixed experiences with the initial setup, with some users finding it fast and straightforward, while others mentioned it took about two months. VMware Tanzu had a varied setup process among reviewers. Some found it easy and quick, while others found it complex, especially when setting up clusters.
Pricing: Broadcom DX utilizes a monthly licensing fee for its setup cost, and users propose that the pricing structure should be tied to memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents. In contrast, VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is deemed costly, with reviewers highlighting supplementary expenses for integrations and add-ons.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, VMware Tanzu is the preferred choice over Broadcom DX. Users found the setup of VMware Tanzu Observability to be quick and easy, taking only hours or minutes. Users also praised the deployment and integration of VMware Tanzu Observability, as well as its support for container platforms and scalability.
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"We are able to easily and quickly find some of the problems with the applications and coding, and some of the performance problems."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"If there's something that you really need to get at that doesn't come out of the box, you can pretty easily put together some custom metrics and get those in place."
"The way these tools show the information is very useful. this is a tool that records information from Java and .NET applications, and obtain information about how many times an method has been call in a period of time (usually 30 sec), how many times respond in this span of time or is delayed or stall."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"No issues with stability."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The reports are a key part of APM in my vision because it is through them that we manage to generate the evidence to direct the development team and operational support to address. However, we can not extract the information of the tool through reports. We have needed several times to use screen print screen, CTRL + C and CTRL + V."
"I think as we're all moving forward to automated deployments, it'd be nice to have that out-of-the-box with this product."
"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."
"It doesn't have a proper database, and the configuration is very difficult."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 34th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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