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Azure Monitor vs Broadcom DX Application Performance Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Azure Monitor provides real-time insights with mixed financial gains, offering significant savings when integrated with Microsoft products.
Sentiment score
7.1
Broadcom DX APM boosts ROI with effective application management, reducing incidents and costs, while enhancing performance and reporting capabilities.
Performance management solutions like Broadcom DX Application Performance Management are important for cost reduction and performance reviews.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Azure Monitor support receives mixed reviews; premium users report better service, but delays and limited technical depth remain issues.
Sentiment score
6.8
Broadcom DX's customer service and technical support are praised for professionalism, expertise, but face criticism for occasional delays.
However, the second-line support is good.
It is difficult to access the right person, and incidents sometimes need escalation.
In the early years, we needed support often, but due to accumulated experience with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, we haven't needed to escalate any issues recently.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Azure Monitor is valued for scalability, cloud flexibility, and integration, effectively suiting diverse organizational needs despite some challenges.
Sentiment score
6.8
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is scalable, but complex configuration and cost concerns arise with extensive metrics and scalability options.
The solution does not offer much flexibility in scalability.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Azure Monitor is stable, reliable, regularly updated, rated highly in stability, and appreciated across various business scales.
Sentiment score
6.9
Broadcom DX APM is stable with minimal issues, though specific configurations and platforms may present challenges, often resolved by updates.
Azure Monitor is working fine, yet I face a costing issue as if there are a lot of logs collected in the workspace or in the center, it becomes very costly.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Monitor users desire better integration, support, AI capabilities, and expanded features for enhanced monitoring and user experience.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management requires improvements in cost, integration, support, automation, cloud, dashboards, and monitoring capabilities.
If Azure Monitor can independently add one gigabyte, two gigabytes, or five gigabytes at least to log storage, I can fix the logs without syncing with Log Analytics Workspace and Sentinel.
It is also difficult to access the right person in support, and sometimes incidents need to be escalated, taking several contacts to resolve.
Improving the feature set to match competitors like Cisco and Dynatrace would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Azure Monitor is cost-effective for Azure clients, offering competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go and expense estimation tools.
Broadcom DX APM is cost-effective initially, but renewals and agent-based licensing can increase expenses in large setups.
When I export logs into the application, workspace, log analytic workspace, and into Sentinel to read reports, I need to add storage, which increases the cost.
The challenge arises during annual renewals, as the price increase can be significant, around twenty percent or more, which customers find difficult to understand.
The pricing is in the middle range.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Monitor provides comprehensive monitoring, dynamic alerts, and easy integration with Azure services, supporting infrastructure and application performance.
Broadcom DX APM provides real-time insights, proactive issue detection, transaction tracing, and customizable dashboards for enhanced performance management.
Resource monitoring is essential.
The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is the dashboard, which captures all the traces and generates alerts for performance monitoring.
We have very good dashboards that are very useful for getting all the parameters of the application.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (5th)
Broadcom DX Application Per...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
31st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Container Monitoring (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Azure Monitor is 7.1%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Syed Abid  - PeerSpot reviewer
Monthly and weekly resource monitoring has improved efficiency
Azure Monitor can improve by adding some kind of storage for logs. I can get the runtime logs alone, yet if Azure Monitor can independently add one gigabyte, two gigabytes, or five gigabytes at least to log storage, I can fix the logs without syncing with Log Analytics Workspace and Sentinel. If they do that, and if they can integrate a little pricing adjustment, it will be profitable for the Microsoft tool.
aush.111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides efficiency in migration and DAW but requires a high level of administrator knowledge for configuration
This solution still relies on inbuilt configuration. For example, I'm pretty much impressed with Dynatrace POC, where we deploy the agent with a simple click, click, click, and then that's it. And we did not build any alerts or anything. We just started getting the alerts, warnings, and everything on its own system, understood what the benchmark is and what is the threshold, and it started giving you the warnings and the caution alerts, the danger alerts. So we expect something like that should be there in Broadcom at the level. But, instead, it expects us to configure. So that is what is missing there. Even if the server CPU usage is 95%t, it doesn't harm you. It doesn't send you any alerts. We think the system is normal. So it's not normal. So this is what they should think and send you AI/ML-related alarms on their own. In future releases, I would like to see more AI and ML capabilities, which are kind of missing. Another area of improvement is its infrastructure monitoring perspective. For example, they are still using UIM, which is a good tool. But for APM, they have come to DXP. However, in terms of UIM, the unified infrastructure management, there is no DXP version or AIML version of it. So they should try to find an updated version of it so that it is not competing with the rest of the solution.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
What do you like most about Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment.
What needs improvement with Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor can improve by adding some kind of storage for logs. I can get the runtime logs alone, yet if Azure Monitor can independently add one gigabyte, two gigabytes, or five gigabytes at lea...
What do you like most about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application.
What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The main areas for improvement include making dashboards and interfaces easier to understand. Our version might be a bit old, and we may need to upgrade it. It is also difficult to access the right...
 

Also Known As

No data available
DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
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