We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, Dynatrace, and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] 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."Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"I found the solution's end-to-end analysis and flexibility most valuable."
"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."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"They have quick answers for scalability."
"The primary use case is to monitor all our applications. We want a single place where we can monitor all our applications that we are building. Therefore, if something goes wrong, we immediately can find out what went wrong."
"Provides more insight into detecting what the problem is with some of our applications."
"Dynatrace's power lies in its ability to inspect and chart transactions, and draw the PurePath tree. The parameters of the requests and methods can be selected to access the necessary information for efficient analysis."
"For stability, our customers have no complaints."
"Being able to get down to the individual code level to see where transactions are taking time. It has helped troubleshoot issues immensely and other tools can't provide this."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, UI, and collected data. Its deployment is really easy. In just a few hours, you can have a very good outcome, and you can see everything, which is very valuable. It collects a good amount of data."
"The view it provides for default analysis is very nice. The way in which it showcases how the metrics have been captured and how lucidly that they are displayed. This is a good thing to have from a technical and non-technical perspective."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"The upgrade was complex. The documentation could have been a little bit better, but other than that, it was okay."
"CEM needs to be simplified, because it causes too many interruptions in our daily work."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"It doesn't have a proper database, and the configuration is very difficult."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"It was difficult to initially use the solution, how to use it and where to navigate."
"Configuring nodes and agents should be more like plug and play."
"They should include more mission learning into the product and provide additional performance metrics for application learning."
"Graphically, it is not good."
"Getting the EM data, we have to open a browser. Generally, one of the asks from our clients or our engineering team is to change this."
"The UX/UI needs improvement. It is not easy to learn."
"Add support for Ruby."
"We'd like it to be more user-friendly, which, in our case, might be a big ask as we have a fairly complex environment."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
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