We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, Dynatrace, and Oracle Enterprise Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."
"We understand for APM, it has the ability to drill down and do the end-to-end monitoring that we are looking for."
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"Now, we know we have a problem, because there is a primary layer of alerting or metrics monitoring put in place, that is the good part."
"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."
"It is a very good APM tool. There is a lot of thorough scanning of services and applications. It has got great monitoring features."
"Capability to focus on root cause problems."
"We have identified some critical issues, which are not available or recreatable in the Dev or QA environment."
"This solution has helped us to improve application performance and reduce issue-impact with faster resolutions."
"The dashboard allows us to monitor and proactively act upon any breaches in the threshold for our infrastructure."
"Transparency and visibility into application performance, errors, incidents, etc. helps to foster a collaborative environment."
"Complete visibility into end-to-end user transactions."
"Ease of problem detection and alerting, visual timeline, and user-sessions are some of the best features of Dynatrace."
"It is the best monitoring tool for Oracle databases."
"I think the look and feel and the accessibility to the databases, the scale of environment support."
"The most valuable features are security and speed."
"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product."
"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."
"It's a useful feature to be able to see the top SQL, the number of executions, the CPU, and the resources that it's using."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"Its profiling. The uniqueness instead of me looking at sampling data, I need to know the m-1 event that actually triggered my scenario where that m event caused a catastrophic event, like a ripple effect; I need to know that m-1. What triggered my major event means I need to understand the event that triggered it and before the cause of that event itself."
"The reports are a key part of APM in my vision because it is through them that we manage to generate the evidence to direct the development team and operational support to address. However, we can not extract the information of the tool through reports. We have needed several times to use screen print screen, CTRL + C and CTRL + V."
"Needs custom dashboards."
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"Support could be much better."
"I would like to see internal synthetic tests in the next release, which is already on the roadmap."
"There is still a bit of redundancy in Dynatrace."
"Make it easier to define applications. E.g., provide an API for applications defined by REST services."
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"There should be more visibility for network performance monitoring. There should be more metrics for things like 5G and IoT. That would be the main thing because they've moved more to mobile performance rather than fixed networks."
"I would like to see single pane monitoring."
"We have some issues with react user sessions."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In my opinion, rather than a younger DBA, think the user interface could be improved."
"There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."
"We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"I would like to improve the cost."
"The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement."
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