We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, Instana Dynamic APM, and OpenText Business Process Monitoring 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."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."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"The configuration and the manager tool are good features."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."
"Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"The deployment was easy."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The stability has been very good over the years."
"Automates processes and allows reports and statistics to improve the speed at which changes and assets are managed."
"The APM SQL feature doesn't perform like we would like it to. I know that's a new feature with 10.5, so it may be one of those things that gets a little better, but it should run faster."
"User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"Documentation needs to be centralized."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"They can make it easier to configure."
"I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"The solution should offer better integration with other tools from a service management perspective."
"Product documentation is lacking, and sometimes, incorrect. Having better documentation will allow business analysts and data center personnel to rely on the Micro Focus help desk less."
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