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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs Nastel AutoPilot [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (26th), Container Monitoring (8th)
Nastel AutoPilot [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

EG
Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS
Dashboards facilitate prompt alerts but discovery feature needs enhancement
I would recommend Broadcom DX Application Performance Management if a customer doesn't have any existing performance solution. However, ten years ago, the solution was better, and now there are many competitive options. My overall rating would be between six and seven. The product rating I would give is 6.5 out of 10.
it_user226614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Performance and Service Metrics at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
You can easily scale it for high message rates, but it's primarily a flow-monitoring tool rather than an APM.
Autopilot is a middleware-centric business transaction monitoring tool that includes a Complex Event Processor (CEP) for transaction data. Architecture AutoPilot Probes are lightweight performance measurement and monitoring tools for live applications that are executed at defined points within the…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It takes care of our issues."
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM.​"
"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."
"The traditional Introscope portion of the product is the most valuable, as it provides good visibility to the JVM and Java application."
"Very powerful and flexible suite of tools which provide great insight into application and network performance."
"It largely reduces turnaround time from application failure, and has reduced man hours in managing availability, performance, and scaling applications."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"Very simple to use and is a very useful tool."
"You can easily scale it for high message rates."
"Nastel is a world-class company that has partnership amongst other positive qualities embedded into its cultural fiber."
"Flexible environment"
 

Cons

"One of the areas that I think needs improvement is the central management of the agents."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"Some of which are the inability to manage multiple hosts at the same time, configure agents in an easy fashion."
"I have faced scalability and stability issues. When we needed to monitor a large number of data metrics, then these kinds of issues occur."
"The Transaction Tracing feature can definitely be improved."
"Technical support is slow to respond and also asks redundant questions."
"We did have stability problems."
"Outages with the solution are very frequent nowadays actually; we see the APM solution going down two to three times a day, and it’s a long troubleshooting cycle, as the CA APM system seems to add a lot of performance overhead."
"Documentation"
"Needs to quickly implement support for all variety of servers."
"The GUI is quite basic and middleware-centric."
"Quality Assurance testing for new releases need to be more thorough"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"The pricing structure should be based on memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents, as it makes the solution more expensive for us."
"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."
"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."
"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
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Manufacturing Company
8%
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Midsize Enterprise24
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The initial pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions. The challenge arises during annual renewals, as the price increase can be significant, around twenty percent or more, ...
What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The first area for improvement is the discovery feature, which should be enhanced to collect comprehensive information from applications and services. This includes using agents or scripts to gathe...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
Our primary use case involves having a large dashboard with significant information for alerts, alarms, and metrics to summarize the state of critical businesses and applications. When an issue ari...
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Also Known As

DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
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Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
Banamex, Barclays Capital, Bank of Bermuda, California Commerce Bank, Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank, CGEY, Checkfree Corporation, CIBC, CitiCard, Citicorp, New York, Citigroup Inc., CME Group Inc., Credit Agricole Indosuez Luxembourg, Credit Suisse, CRIF, Deutsche Bundesbank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, DTCC, FannieMae, Fidelity (FMR), First Citizens Bank & Trust, Fortis Investments, GE Money Americas, GE Money Bank, HP, HP/WestLB Systems, HSBC, HSH Nordbank, IG Index, i-bp Banque, Populaire, Interpay Nederland B.V., IZB - Informatikzentrum Bayern GmbH & Co., JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., MGIC (Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation) NYSE, OMGEO, People's Bank (Ct), Peoples United Bank, Phoenix Informatica Bancaria S.p.A., PinkRoccade, Santander Bank, SKOFIN, Sociale Verzekeringsbank, Thomson Financial, UBS, UMB Financial Corporation
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