AppNeta by Broadcom vs Dynatrace vs Nagios XI comparison

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AppNeta by Broadcom

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Mindshare comparison

DX NetOps Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AppNeta by Broadcom	21.7%
DX Spectrum	35.0%
DX Performance Management	35.0%
Other	8.299999999999997%

DX NetOps

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dynatrace	8.8%
Datadog	7.2%
Sentry	5.8%
Other	78.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nagios XI	3.5%
Zabbix	12.2%
Datadog	5.2%
Other	79.1%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

Cliff Chapman

Architect at Linkstatus Ltd

Excellent support, easy configuration, and a reliable tool to know what the problem is and where the problem is

They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes. Currently, when we have short-duration problems, we use a different tool, but we only use that different tool for short-duration problems. With AppNeta, as long as the problem exists for more than a few minutes, such as within 10 to 15 minutes, we can normally tell where the problem is. However, most of the problems that we deal with are intermittent. They're very rarely a permanent condition that needs to be addressed. That makes it more difficult to troubleshoot. We would look to see at least two or three events and hope they show the same results to raise our confidence that we've actually found the problem, rather than just a problem.

Provides a comprehensive view by integrating with other monitoring systems

Anand_Kumar

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

There may be an issue since there are many tools like Splunk involved in network monitoring. From an IP perspective, Dynatrace is performing well. If they want to develop in network monitoring, they can, as it's part of their product line. It's not rocketry, so they can accomplish it. If I, as an SI, look at it from an enterprise perspective, considering the cost from the client, I prefer not to go with multiple systems, as they don't provide a complete 360-degree view. They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system. The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.

Effective alerting enhances network monitoring experience with an easy setup

Amir Said

Site Duty Manager at Assw

We love Nagios XI due to the fact that JPS Web is very useful. JPS monitors the modem and performs switching, monitoring the computer, and performing switching. We implement some applications and traffic monitoring. The alerting system is very effective. For instance, if we have an alarm on some RAM storage if the traffic is cut or dropped.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution's technical support is very good."

"A lot of times one of the AppNeta transactions showed that there is an issue, whereas everything seemed to be working properly. Once we dug into it, we realized that it really was highlighting a problem that otherwise we would not have seen."

"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."

"We get complete, hop-by-hop visibility into the internet and we can know how much latency is taking place from one hop to another. That way, we know whether a particular hop belongs to the ISP, or that it is something owned by our own client's office, or is something to do with the SaaS network."

"The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues."

"This solution helps prove that, if we move to cloud, we'll still be as effective as we are on-premises."

"Delivery and experience are valuable. The usage in terms of the traffic application captures and other similar things is also valuable."

"Helps us to shorten down the time for triaging an issue."

".NET core and Spring code level analysis helps with root cause analysis."

"In terms of AI, I love the base-lining Dynatrace provides us. It baselines the application over a seven-day period; we have it at the default of seven days. The artificial intelligence is so amazing because it can automatically track each transaction and their response times: how much CPU they use, how much memory, resources that they use. If there’s any deviation from that Dynatrace will tell me like right away. If there’s a deployment and the deployment has increased response time or is taking up CPU or has caused a memory leak, I can say, “Hey guys, you need to look at this, it’s this function on this page in this microservice, in this docker container. You need to go here, you need to fix it, it’s not going live.” It has just increased our productivity off the charts."

"Service engineers save a lot of time because they can just go in look at the data and share it with the customer, who has the same view, and say, "Here's an improvement which can be immediately implemented." It's not like a collection of big, multiple findings that are consolidated into one results presentation, then the customer needs to do something. It's more like a continuous performance analysis and improvement process, which is more efficient than those workshops approaches. That's one of the biggest of the advantages that our services team sees because it helps DevOps to focus on continuous delivery and shift quality issues to pre-production."

"Simplified the way to monitor a medium to big environment."

"Triggering gives us warning that system is getting slow and we need to nail down the issue soon, so it does not impact our business."

"The ability to take each individual request and dive in to inspect what methods and calls are being made is extremely helpful."

"We use it for monitoring all the applications in our bank, and it works fantastically."

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"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."

"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."

"Nagios XI is stable."

"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."

"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."

"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."

"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."

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Cons

"They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes."

"Cloud monitoring could be better. That's one of the biggest pain points for me. I have shared this feedback with them multiple times, but they're limited to some extent. That's one area where I've seen a problem."

"AppNeta by Broadcom needs to add more features to its dashboards. It also needs to work on providing out-of-the-box reports."

"Instead of integrating with other people, they should expand their interior capabilities."

"Having to deal with configuring the end devices using a USB stick is a bit cumbersome. It would be nice if there was a better way of handling that."

"I would like to see some advanced dashboard features. It could also be integrated with third-party tools. For example, an integration with a reporting solution would be helpful. Out-of-the-box, there are few dashboards or reports. What it does have is useful, but there should be additional dashboards."

"I think some of the product's documentation has shortcomings and needs improvement."

"Dynatrace is not great for network monitoring."

"Searches should be faster."

"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."

"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."

"I do not like the performance of the UI. It is really slow."

"Custom reporting is still missing."

"I would like to see income monitoring for the servers and infrastructure monitoring."

"We're developing more and more microservices and, each time, for an AppMon license, you have to deploy it, you have to configure it, you to get charged for it. It's very time-consuming."

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"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."

"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."

"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."

"The product's stability could be even better."

"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."

"From an alerting point of view, some graphics and metrics don't work properly with Nagios XI as they do with Checkmk."

"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."

"The tool's AI model needs to be fixed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I find the solution's price to be fairly good."

"We typically don't get involved in the commercial side, but the list price is probably something like $3,000 for a small probe. However, that gives all of the features that the probe can do, whether or not you use them. In the old days, up until two or three years ago, each of the separate features was a separately licensable module so that you could add things that you wanted, and you didn't have to add things that you didn't want. They've changed all that now, and everything the probe can do is a part of the base license."

"I inherited this from a different version, and I haven't yet gone through a renewal because we had purchased three years upfront. So, to me, that still remains to be seen. Once it comes up for renewal, we'll see what happens. Especially because now it is Broadcom, it is going to change anyway."

"It's worth the money."

"The small probe is probably around $3,000 and the very large probe that they make for massive data centers might be $50,000 or $60,000. It's a subscription model, so the payment is per year."

"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."

"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."

"The pricing is not bad, but it could be better."

"Everything is great, but the licensing could always be cheaper. With the every growing tool set of Ops teams, we find it harder to budget for tooling while ensuring we still have the proper insight into our applications."

"Do a PoC and see if you like it."

"Our annual costs were about the same for both AppDynamics and Dynatrace."

"The pricing is a bit on the higher end."

"From what I have heard in the company, Dynatrace is expensive."

"There is a license issue where if we increase the memory we have to up the licenses. I was unaware of that going in. I thought it was scalable without all the paperwork behind the scenes. "

"The pricing is a little high, but still cheaper than competitors because Dynatrace at least has pay-as-you-go. Others do not. However, the pricing is confusing. I wish it was more simplified when trying to price out moving to a yearly contract."

"We are using the free version of this solution."

"As it is not an agentless tool, I think it is expensive."

"Licensing costs are reasonable."

"This solution is very expensive, at approximately $5,000 USD when I purchased it, which is why I haven't upgraded my version in several years."

"For our country in North Africa, it's expensive and we could purchase another solution for that price. But it's a reasonable price if we're speaking in international terms."

"The pricing is high with separate licensing for the product and support."

"Nagios XI is open source."

"Nagios Core does not have any payment, but Nagios XI requires payment for the license."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

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What open source tool can one use to measure bandwidth from one's upstream service provider?

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

41%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	77
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	289

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

One I am looking closely at is AppNeta. They have an appliance that can digest the flow and do a better job than N...

What do you like most about AppNeta?

The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppNeta?

AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive.

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if yo...

What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire sta...

Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems,...

What do you like most about Nagios XI?

It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios XI?

The pricing for the Nagios XI product is good and better than other solutions. I would give it a four or five.

What needs improvement with Nagios XI?

The user interface needs improvement. Many tools have poor user interfaces, making them hard to manage and navigate.

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Overview

AppNeta is the leader in proactive end-user performance monitoring solutions built for the distributed digital enterprise. With AppNeta, IT and Network Ops teams can assure continuous and exceptional delivery of business-critical applications. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams essential application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.

For more information, visit www.appneta.com.

Broadcom

Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.

Dynatrace offers an all-in-one automated artificial intelligence solution that brings together application performance, cloud and infrastructure, and digital experience monitoring. Dynatrace accelerates performance-driven results through operations, development, and business teams with a shared metrics platform. In addition, users are provided a full-stack monitoring experience with three patented technologies:

Smartscape - visualization mechanism that maps the totality of everything working in your environment and detects any casual dependencies between your applications, processes, websites, services, hosts, cloud infrastructure, and networks.
OneAgent - a technology that analyzes, gathers ,and unifies all business performance metrics throughout every layer of your technology stack.
PurePath Technology - code-level context and timings are captured from the mainframe to the cloud for all end-to-end transactions.

What does Dynatrace offer?

Dynatrace redefines how organizations monitor their digital ecosystems. The solution offers:

Cloud Automation: With AI engine Davis®, users can see the exact reason for problems and facilitate quick auto-remediation and intelligent cloud orchestration.
Application Security: With automated application vulnerability management, users can deliver applications faster and more securely.
Infrastructure Monitoring: Convenient broad visibility across your environments is provided with streamlined, automated infrastructure monitoring.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Optimize your applications, provide better support, and improve user experience with a combination of Real User Monitoring (RUM), Session Replay, and synthetic monitoring throughout your environment.
Applications and Microservices: For complex cloud environments, Dynatrace can automatically provide visibility and root-cause answers. It can also monitor microservices.
Digital Business Analytics: Get AI-powered, real-time answers to analytical business queries with KPIs and metrics that are already flowing through applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Dynatrace is the only solution that provides answers to organizations based on deep insight into each user, transaction, and organization's environment.

Barry P., a managing performance engineer at Medica Health Plans, writes, "With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place."

A consultant at a tech service company notes, "A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."