We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."
"With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool"
"It helps us prioritize application performance issues. It has assisted triage where we can drill down and see where exactly the problem lies."
"Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team. It saves lots of time for APM team."
"Some of its valuable features include transaction traces, dashboards, and metric grouping to see combined data."
"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"Standard available reports provide us with an automatic insight into the top ten situations to watch. It would have been extremely difficult to program such a report ourselves, and to my knowledge no other competitor can match this functionality."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"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."
"Dashboards need to be improved in order to make them self-explanatory."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"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."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"Stability could actually be helped because it is a wrapper or an agent on our system. If we are having a bad day in production or if other resources are being utilized, then we will get get gaps in our monitoring system."
"It should be easier to install or set everything up. "
"The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"Its stability could be even better."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management writes "Provides efficiency in migration and DAW but requires a high level of administrator knowledge for configuration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Prometheus report.
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