BMC Compuware Strobe Reviews

Vendor: BMC

4.0 out of 5

1 review
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What is BMC Compuware Strobe?

Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

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BMC Compuware Strobe is the #74 ranked solution in APM tools. PeerSpot users give BMC Compuware Strobe an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. BMC Compuware Strobe is most commonly compared to Dynatrace: BMC Compuware Strobe vs Dynatrace. BMC Compuware Strobe is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 37% of all views.

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

August 2025

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BMC Compuware Strobe mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of BMC Compuware Strobe in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category stands at 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
BMC Compuware Strobe	0.1%
Dynatrace	10.2%
Datadog	8.5%
Other	81.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The initial setup was fairly easy."

Room for Improvement

"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."

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Financial Services Firm

37%

Computer Software Company

12%

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With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics