We performed a comparison between AppPulse Suite [EOL], Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
"The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."
"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"It provides a lot of customer insight, understanding the customer's needs, understanding the customer's issues, and it gives me a more proactive approach to solving a customer problem before it happens."
"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications."
"With Google Analytics, you choose what performance metrics you want to have reported, but with AppPulse Mobile, you have a global vision of what is really happening inside your app."
"We can collect data about the user experience and see how the user is behaving with the app, or check the behavior of the app itself."
"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."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"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."
"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."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"Product performance is awesome. It's covering all aspects of the application; good database metrics and internal application metrics. Just tons and tons of data."
"The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is its very light model with monitoring of servers and network items."
"We receive good transactions from it with good graphs, as well, documenting the activities of total visitors on the site. We can pull the reports and provide them to the client, as required."
"Complete visibility into end-to-end user transactions."
"We're able to tell them which calls, which methods, which interface were the problem."
"We can see all the degradation of services in real-time, then we know exactly what the root cause of degradation is."
"Dynatrace has great training available. It is easy for everybody to use. Anybody can go out to YouTube, watch a video, and figure out how to use the piece that they need."
"We have been capturing all the information and evaluating whether it can be improved or not."
"Support is very transparent in issues, what they need to do, and how they need to fix certain issues and problems."
"Easy to install and start using it."
"The graphical interface is helpful, as it illustrates things well for anyone who wants to know about the information it provides."
"Currently, the information for management teams and technical teams are in the same view, but it would be useful if we could separate these views."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex. It could split up the users into categories based on how frequently they use my product."
"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
"The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually. Unfortunately, the reporter is not that practical."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"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."
"Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve its supportability to the current technologies and the end-to-end correlation feature should be done automatically without custom configurations. Additionally, there should not be any configuration changes to the client-side when deploying the solution."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"The APM SQL feature doesn't perform like we would like it to. I know that's a new feature with 10.5, so it may be one of those things that gets a little better, but it should run faster."
"It should be easier to install or set everything up. "
"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."
"The challenge with AppMon is, what if you don't have an AppMon agent on a host, but it talks to the database. It talks to it, but I don't have either a host agent or an AppMon agent on it. That has been a challenge, but I believe the Dynatrace agent, the OneAgent, will solve that, potentially."
"We are happy with the server monitoring, but we feel like the application monitoring should be improved."
"Dashboarding and having different templates available for more business reporting, or even other metrics, would be useful."
"We are still struggling a bit with finding an answer quickly."
"I would like the ability to export a user session into csv format. (I am aware that I can export a user session via a webhook)."
"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."
"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."
"Due to the fact that you doing a lot, you have a problem with the learning curve. We're really looking for ways to make this product more accessible."
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