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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. IBM Application Performance Management
August 2022
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and IBM Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Management (APM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Featured Review
Anonymous User
Provides a complete picture of what's happening and has an accurate alert mechanism
It was a good solution. My boss, who was a VP, was very happy with the system, and he didn't want to change the system because it was working well.... Read more →
Anonymous User
Has high pricing, needs better stability and requires more reliable ML/AI
The different layers of monitoring helped to optimise the resource and reduce MTTR.If I found the issue in Infrastructure then team only focus in... Read more →
Anonymous User
Valuable for infrastructure owners and useful for real-time information and transaction tracking
This application is implemented in the banking industry, where virtual services are used a lot by people every day. IBM APM is very valuable for... Read more →
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Pros
"The monitoring so far has been good and we are happy with it.""The simplicity of the dashboard is very good.""Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly.""The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us.""It does everything we wanted it to do.""The breakdown of the response time of different components and getting in-depth details of the slow component are the most valuable features. It is easy to use, and it gets the job done.""The most valuable feature is the ability to receive in-depth information about applications. It can detect a lot of important information.""We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."

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"JVM memory monitoring and connection pool monitoring are valuable features.""I like that it gives you a wide range of data where you can see the application outage response from concurrent locations and the number of stalled jobs.""​Deep Dive and Transaction Analysis Triage capability.​""The deployment was easy.""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.""We are using the on-premise and cloud versions of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management.""I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable.""Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."

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"IBM Application Performance Management helped us increased our response time by 80% and cost 60% less.""The transaction tracking feature from IBM is the most important feature for us. It is something that provides a terrific value for us and our clients. It has a lot of data sources and agents that are collectors. It is also stable.""Because we have partnerships with other partners, I can share a bit about what I've noticed with IBM APM compared to other vendor solutions. Specifically, with IBM, the visibility into detailed process information is more tangible. On the OS level, APM displays all processes (or the top 10 processes) that are consuming CPU or resident memory. This is the most important thing that is not always available with other vendors.""It's easy to use."

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Cons
"They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive.""The older view is much better than the new view that they have. We'd like to go back to that previous version. The user interface just isn't as nice as it used to be.""We would like a dashboard feature to be created for this product. This would allow us to monitor both the front and back-end of our UIs performance, and then report on it.""I haven't come across any features that are lacking.""New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided.""There has been some problem with the agent, and it is just not working well. It is not able to record information with the application server. They have been able to fix the issue, but it took quite a long time. This is the main issue in the APM products and also in New Relic. The mobile application monitoring has been pretty difficult to set up and also quite expensive. It should be a little bit easier and cheaper. Because it is pretty difficult and expensive, many customers don't take it.""It would be nice if there were pre-made dashboards.""How granular I could go down at looking at certain data, especially related to the operations, is limited."

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"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.""It doesn't have a proper database, and the configuration is very difficult.""Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed.""The technical support is very poor.""The stability could be more reliable.""You can sell licenses and install the full tool on service, you can show customers how to install, but how to use it and solve issues cannot be done without the experience.""Support could be much better.""What comes to mind when you speak of a room for improvement in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is the infrastructure agent, but my company doesn't use it, so I can't say if it's really a problem or not, but it could be the container support or cloud support that could be improved in the solution. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is for it to have one agent for cloud and one agent for legacy, with all features included."

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"The demo that was provided to us is not working very well. At times, there are errors.""Its web user interface is a little bit old in comparison to other solutions, such as New Relic, and it should be improved. Its scalability and technical support should also be improved. Currently, it is scalable, but only in a vertical way. They provide good technical support, but the initial steps for a new case can be improved to fasten the resolution process.""With APM, we noticed that the agent can cause a lot of issues for the application, making the agent very unreliable. Many issues are happening, and we've had to discuss it with support to try and get a fix. It affects application availability, and sometimes actions fail because of the agent, degrading the performance of the application.""It's still missing some platforms. For example, if you look to applications itself, it is missing the interface."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price was one of the reasons we chose this solution."
  • "I think the pricing is reasonable."
  • "The price of the solution could be less expensive. You have to pay a lot for each user. There is an additional cost for extra features."
  • "This is an expensive tool."
  • "The price of New Relic APM could be less expensive. We are using the New Relic APM pro account and it is more costly. When compared to competitors the solution's pricing should be much more realistic."
  • "If I remember it correctly, the pricing was based on the core, and the monthly subscription used to cost us $1,500 or $2,000. We had pre-prod and production services. Costing was different for pre-prod and production. For pre-prod, it was 40% less than the production service cost. It was a combined package."

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  • "The licensing costs are expensive."
  • "It is definitely expensive for what we get, but there isn't an alternate option at the moment."
  • "The license for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is annual. The licensing model could improve because there is not any limit to deploying the agent, there should be some limits on it."
  • "All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
  • "I'm unable to give information on Broadcom DX Application Performance Management licensing costs, but all Application Performance Management products have expensive pricing. This means that it's not only Broadcom that's expensive, and it would be an advantage if the cost would be a little bit cheaper."

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  • "IBM APM is one of the cheaper products on the market, while everything necessary to get started is included in the license."
  • "The licensing fees can be paid every six months or on a yearly basis."

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    Questions from the Community
    Any advice about APM solutions?
    Top Answer:There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems… more »
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    What do you like most about New Relic APM?
    Top Answer:We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for New Relic APM?
    Top Answer:The price of New Relic APM could be less expensive. We are using the New Relic APM pro account and it is more costly… more »
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    What do you like most about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management for me is transaction monitoring. The… more »
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom DX Appli...
    Top Answer:I'm unable to give information on Broadcom DX Application Performance Management licensing costs, but all Application… more »
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    What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:What comes to mind when you speak of a room for improvement in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is the… more »
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    What do you like most about IBM Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:It's easy to use.
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    What needs improvement with IBM Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:The demo that was provided to us is not working very well. At times, there are errors. The trial version should be in… more »
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    What is your primary use case for IBM Application Performance Management?
    Top Answer:I am a consultant, and we provide products and technical services to other companies. IBM provided us with this solution… more »
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    Product Features
    Deployment

    On-premise deployment

    Can be deployed on AWS

    Can be deployed on Azure

    Can be deployed in a private cloud

    Monitor on-premise applications in virtualized environments

    Monitor applications running on AWS and Azure

    Monitor applications running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Redhat OpenShift and Heroku

    Support for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Redhat OpenShift. Heroku is a future roadmap item.
    Configuration and Infrastructure

    Configuration and management through a single, web-based user interface

    Automatically create a visualization of the entire application topology with all components.

    Automatically discover business transactions

    Automatically discover standard back end systems (database, web services, SAP etc.)

    Discover and display non-standard backend systems through point-and-click configuration

    Automatically baseline every component within the business transaction

    Can be deployed in multi-tenant environment

    Application Visibility and Control

    Provide correlated views of distributed business transactions between tiers/services

    Automatically baseline every component within the Business Transaction

    Provide code level diagnostics (class & method-level visibility) of business transactions

    Monitor JVM health information (heap, GC, generational spaces, etc.)

    Monitor CPU utilization, OS memory usage, disk I/O, network I/O, other hardware metrics

    Report application errors & exceptions

    Automatically monitor entire call stack when application problems occur

    Does not disable monitoring functionality as a compromise to limit product overhead

    Historical performance monitoring and trending

    Full view of infrastructure details without leaving context of business transactions

    Single UI for server and application monitoring

    Alert on deviation from baseline

    Mean Time To Repair

    Identify slow and stalled business transactions without manual intervention

    Count, measure and score every transaction

    Identify error business transactions without manual intervention

    Identify slow SQL queries without manual intervention

    Identify slow backend systems or external services without manual intervention

    Automatically discover code deadlocks

    Provide quick cross launching into problem areas within the UI through hyperlinked alerts

    Automatically send email containing hyperlink to identified problem

    Automatic analysis of end-to-end APM data to provide root cause analysis

    Business Transactions

    Automatically discover business transactions

    Automatically learn and baseline performance of discovered business transactions

    Automatically count, measure and score every transaction

    Discover synchronous, asynchronous and multi-threaded business transactions

    Business Metrics

    Provide visibility into the impact of outages on business metrics

    Capture business metrics (e.g. revenue, orders) from applications and background jobs

    Enables creation of custom dashboards for business metrics and application behavior

    Out of the box reports on business transaction summary and trends

    Automatically correlate business transactions with environment monitoring (OS, JMX, etc.)

    Usability

    Browser-based web client

    Automatic & dynamic baselining of all metrics to reduce false alarms

    Include an online virtual collaboration space as a virtual "war room"

    Visualize multiple applications and the connectivity / dependencies between them

    Enable sharing of analysis/ visualizations without having to export data from the UI

    Group transactions using a Session ID and display transactions in order of execution

    Drill down from business transaction to correlated log file entries in single platform

    Available through CA's Log Analytics solution which can be integrated with APM
    Historical Trending

    Trending with metric persistence to do historical analysis and compare to baselines

    The ability to view and drill into Flow Map for extended periods up to 1 year

    The ability to compare Flow Maps from different time frames for up to 2 years

    Support for Agile

    Dynamic instrumentation of the application

    No need to reconfigure agent instrumentation when new app releases are deployed

    Automatically pick up application configuration changes as a result of agile releases

    Regression analysis to compare and highlight app performance improvements

    Areas of poor metric stability (differential analysis) and architectural potential (high call ratio) for improvement are analyzed, but through more advanced logic than regression

    Provide capability to compare business transactions flows for different releases

    Pre-Production Performance Tuning

    Identify the longest running methods in business transactions

    Determine relationship between increased load and application response time

    Identify worst backend calls (Database, Web Services, other backend) automatically

    Provide business transaction performance change from one code release to the next

    Scalability and Infrastructure

    Support at least 5000 agents on a single platform without requiring data federation

    Ability to support high availability APM infrastructure servers

    Has steady network traffic between agent and APM server regardless of transaction levels

    Encrypt data transmissions end-to-end across the environment

    Agentless monitoring

    Analytics

    Single UI incorporating Analytics and APM modules

    Analytics UI is web browser based with no locally installed client software

    Analytics layer providing intelligence across data collected by APM modules

    Scalable repository capable of collecting and storing large volume of metrics/events

    In context drill down between analytics data and APM data

    Graphical query builder for ease of use and broad adoption

    Ability to adjust timeframe via click and drag on dashboard charts

    Automated ranking (top N) of relevancy of every indexed field to current selection

    Configurable to collect not all, but specific desired transaction data/fields

    Alert off of metrics created in analytics based on search criteria

    Analytics data collection does not require full call method stack data

    No code changes required to pull custom (non-native) metrics into data repository

    Data collected, stored and analysed in near real time (i.e. not hours, days, or weeks later)

    API to input custom metrics

    Search API

    Ability to chart result set in custom dashboards

    Granular role based access control (RBAC)

    Log Analytics

    Ability to collect and store log files from monitored nodes

    Available via CA's log analytics solution which can be integrated with APM

    Log file data through TCP

    Available via CA's log analytics solution which can be integrated with APM

    Auto-inject business transaction identifier for each log statement

    Can be configured via custom tracer, requires integration with logging framework

    Ability to extract any field from log file for processing

    Available via CA's log analytics solution which can be integrated with APM
    Root Cause Analysis

    Historical performance monitoring and trending - retain 100% of historical data

    Report top database activities (e.g. Top SQL, Top Users, Top Programs)

    Report database activity profile over-time (identify patterns)

    Collect and store all database wait events and correlate with SQL/Stored Procedures

    Collect and store SQL/Stored Procedure KPIs (CPU, Count, Reads/Writes)

    Collect and store database instance level statistics (table size, row count, indexes)

    Collect and store database server/host KPIs (CPU, Memory, �)

    Ability to breakdown latency of stored procedure components

    Collect SQL Explain & Execution plans

    Collect and store performance data on database objects (Schemas, tables, indexes)

    Ability to collect and correlate deep-dive storage information

    Database Monitoring

    Provide a real-time view of performance showing current database activity

    Provide a holistic view of all database performance through a multi-instance dashboard

    Ability to send pro-active alerts based on health and performance of databases

    Static and dynamic alerting on collected database metrics

    Server Monitoring

    Monitor Machine availability

    Monitor CPU usage

    Monitor Disk performance

    Monitor Volume usage

    Monitor Machine load

    Monitor Memory

    Monitor SWAP

    Monitor Processes

    Monitor Network Adapter(s)

    Dynamic Baselining

    Synthetic page checker

    Application Monitoring

    Identify JVM memory leaks caused by leaky collections

    Enable tracking of object instantiations/destructions to troubleshoot JVM heap thrash

    PHP monitoring

    .NET monitoring

    Node.js monitoring

    Python monitoring

    Docker Monitoring

    Integrated monitoring of Dockerized containers with application monitoring

    Automatic discovery of containers

    Support Docker attributes and perspectives

    Visualize distribution of containers over cluster hosts

    Network Monitoring

    Autodiscovery of network topology and interdependencies

    Available via CA network flow analysis, which can be integrated with APM

    Report on throughput, packet loss, and RT rates

    Available via CA network monitoring tools, which can be integrated with APM

    Monitors network without need of TAP or SPAN port

    Available via CA network monitoring tools (without then need for TAP/SPAN), which can be integrated with APM

    Single UI to drill from network to application and business transaction

    Network monitoring data integrated into APM can be displayed natively within APM dashboards alongside business transaction data
    Virtualization Monitoring

    Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop monitoring

    Server virtualization monitoring

    VDI monitoring

    Web RUM

    Support for modern desktop browsers

    Support for mobile browsers

    Monitor all page requests

    Monitor all iFrame requests

    Full support for monitoring single page applications properly

    Automatically detect JavaScript errors

    Display response time status on Geo Map

    Collect and display Navigation Timing API data for all poor performing requests

    Collect and display Resource Timing API data for all poor performing requests

    Correlate web transactions with server side transactions for drill down

    Provide detailed browser traces for poor performing end user requests

    Provide usage based analytics showing browser types and versions

    Provide usage based analytics showing device and OS types

    Provide customizable analytics area for troubleshooting and analysis purposes

    Provide cache metrics for each page request

    Show server side response time for all pages

    Provide drill down from poor performing request to server side deep diagnostic session

    Session tracking

    Ability to generate a synthetic page request directly from the poor performing request

    SDK for support of any Single Page Application (SPA) framework

    EUM cross application correlation

    Analytics built into EUM portion of UI

    Custom user data available at the session and page request level

    Page grouping at root level instead of individual pages for each set of parameters

    Mobile RUM

    Support for native mobile applications

    Support for mobile browsers

    See mobile app performance, http errors, and network error information

    See the performance of API calls from your mobile application to the server side

    Track crashes and exception

    Provide crash analytics

    User tracing/breadcrumbs

    Trace transactions from mobile device all the way to the server side

    Correlate mobile transactions with server side transactions for drill down

    Provide usage and performance analytics based upon device type

    Provide usage and performance analytics based upon OS type

    Provide usage and performance analytics based upon OS version

    Provide unified user interface for mobile and server diagnostics

    Integrated and correlated data between mobile, server, and infrastructure monitoring

    Display response time status on Geo Map

    Provide device and carrier diagnostic metrics

    Track user sessions to understand user flows and behavior

    Capture user interactions within each session

    Alert based upon deviation from normal behavior for mobile metrics

    Provide percentile metrics related to mobile performance

    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    New Relic Mobile
    DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
    IBM APM
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    New Relic
    Broadcom
    IBM
    Overview

    New Relic is a software analytics and application performance management solution that gives users in-depth data visibility and analytics. By going right to the source, the code, New Relic enables users to develop quicker software, build improved products,and consistently impress their customers. Data tells a story and New Relic interprets what it is telling you.

    CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) is the solution global brands trust to proactively identify and resolve performance and availability issues across physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile applications. Patent-pending analytics provides expertise in the form of guided assisted triage workflows for in-depth, root-cause diagnostics across development and production applications, simplifying and speeding the time it takes to find and fix issues.

    CA APM scales to your organization’s needs and automatically correlates multiple sources of data to help you sort through the data and act decisively, helping to improve user experience and application performance.

    The IBM Application Performance Management portfolio provides visibility, control and automation of your mission-critical applications. It helps pinpoint the root cause of application's issue more quickly and resolve the problem. The integrated capabilities cover the five key areas: discovery, end-use experience, transaction tracking, enterprise diagnostics and analytics. It also easily monitors applications to ensure optimal performance to extend your hybrid management environment capabilities, to measure the customer experience from multiple locations and to further eliminate blind spots in your application environment.
    Offer
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    Sample Customers
    Dow Jones, Microsoft, Nike, Groupon, NBC, Sony, Fox, Adobe, Best Buy, Walmart, and WebMD, Cirque du Soleil, FlightNetwork.com, France Télévisions SA, Hachette Book Group, Hy-Vee, Inc., Isolation Network, Inc., Lighthouse eDiscovery, Major League Soccer, NYC-DOT, New Zealand Media and Entertainment, Office Depot International in Europe, Royal Opera House, Adobe Systems Incorporated, American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., Citrix, Despegar.com, Eastern Bank Corporation, Fox Sports, Globosat, Hogg Robinson plc, iHeartMedia, Jive, Kent State University, Multiplus, NBCUniversal, Ocado, REI, Sensis, VenueNext, Yellow Pages Limited and Zenefits
    Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
    Mibtree, EatDrinkDeals.com, IT Performance Advisor
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Media Company11%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Insurance Company14%
    Energy/Utilities Company10%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government9%
    Insurance Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 8th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 11 reviews while IBM Application Performance Management is ranked 44th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 4 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 7.4, while IBM Application Performance Management is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management writes "Has high pricing, needs better stability and requires more reliable ML/AI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Application Performance Management writes "Agent can be unreliable, but is able to display detailed process information at the OS level". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, Datadog and New Relic, whereas IBM Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, BMC Compuware Strobe, Instana Dynamic APM, AppDynamics and Apica Synthetic. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. IBM Application Performance Management report.

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