We performed a comparison between Alluvio Aternity and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Alluvio Aternity has various valuable features including detailed machine health and performance data, monitoring of usage patterns for desktop applications, and a UXI score for user experience. It also provides visibility of endpoint machines, monitoring of operating systems, CPU and memory utilization, and application access analysis. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is highly valued for its easy deployment of parameters through its configuration and manager tool. It also offers compatibility, straightforward initial setup, code-level visibility for quick issue resolution, transaction monitoring, reliable technical support, and a light model for monitoring servers and network items.
Alluvio Aternity could improve its reporting capabilities, asset management customization, performance counters, and database monitoring options. Broadcom DX needs better integration, an updated front-end application, improved support services, prompt addressing of CPU spikes and memory issues, automated end-to-end correlation, improved container and cloud support, and compatibility with OpenShift 4 without an installed agent.
Service and Support: Alluvio has excellent support, with a prompt and skilled technical support team. Local support is provided, but some complex technical issues may require assistance from overseas engineers. Broadcom DX has received varied feedback, with certain users expressing dissatisfaction. Suggestions have been made for improving the support, particularly around service level agreements.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Alluvio was praised for being excellent, uncomplicated, intuitive, and direct. It entailed deploying agents to PCs through Microsoft's SCCM solution. The initial setup for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management varied in terms of speed and complexity. Some users found it to be quick and straightforward, while others noted that it was not overly complicated yet took more time.
Pricing: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has a pricing structure that is costly and becomes more expensive as the number of agents increases. Some users find it to be expensive. On the other hand, Alluvio Aternity is considered to have reasonable and favorable pricing. However, it may not be suitable for customers with fewer than 500 agents.
Comparison Results: Alluvio Aternity is the preferred product when compared to Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Users find the setup process for Alluvio Aternity to be great, easy, simple, user-friendly, and straightforward. Alluvio Aternity offers valuable features such as machine health and performance data, customization options, and a user-friendly dashboard.
"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"Aternity easily provides visibility of all the endpoint machines to my clients."
"The infrastructure data, especially the CPU and memory data, is per second, which makes it outstanding as compared to other solutions. Its licensing cost is very low for us."
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"The most valuable feature is the alerting. As soon as we click on an incident, it takes us directly to the problematic PC. It's a direct solution. We click on an alert and it takes us to the incident details. The details show in different colors, in a graphical representation, and I like that the most."
"The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"
"The most valuable features for us are the Incident Management dashboard, Application Status dashboard, and Activity Analysis UI."
"There are also built-in activities that let you measure things like preview mail, open address book, and send mail. Those are the activities that we are able to get measurements on, and those are things we have not seen in other software monitoring tools."
"The insight it gives into the applications that it's actually applied to, and the flexibility to do many things with those metrics, and also feed your own metrics from external sources."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"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."
"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."
"Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team. It saves lots of time for APM team."
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"Some of the dashboarding and reporting on the analytics side could be improved. I think they realize it. Obviously, some of the desktop monitoring metrics always can be improved."
"I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great."
"We are waiting for the GA release of their agent. I hope they can do better when they release their endpoint agents. Right now, we are not able to measure some applications, core applications, because it's relying on a specific version of the agent and that agent has not come out yet and there's no ETA. I would like to see them speed up time to market when they release agents."
"Being able to add custom monitoring to dashboards would be nice. Right now, if you want to monitor the value of a registry key on your systems, to get that added into the dashboard you have to reach out to Aternity so they can start looking for that value. It would be interesting if that were more of a self-serve function."
"The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"When they moved from Version 8 to Version 9, the customers lost so much control of what they could do with the product."
"I think the workflow needs improvement"
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"CEM needs to be simplified, because it causes too many interruptions in our daily work."
"Stability could actually be helped because it is a wrapper or an agent on our system. If we are having a bad day in production or if other resources are being utilized, then we will get get gaps in our monitoring system."
"It should be easier to install or set everything up. "
"The interface is getting a little old."
"Very often, we use tools such as Kibana or Jaspersoft for dashboards and reporting on CA APM data because CA APM’s old interfaces do not reflect well in modern displays, compared to those new tools."
"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."
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Alluvio Aternity is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, 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". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management report.
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