Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

31st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

162

Ranking in other categories

Container Monitoring (8th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

19th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (11th), Active Directory Management (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 1.5%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

MarioGomez

Regional Director at ATOS

Improve application performance management by deploying easy-to-use dashboards but face challenges with support access

The main areas for improvement include making dashboards and interfaces easier to understand. Our version might be a bit old, and we may need to upgrade it. It is also difficult to access the right person in support, and sometimes incidents need to be escalated, taking several contacts to resolve.

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KhalidOmer

Data Center Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Has a good interface used for monitoring devices

I rate the solution's alerting mechanism and its impact on our operations ten out of ten. We have around 600 retail offices, and the solution helps us save costs by preventing shutdowns. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."

"We make custom dashboards for our development areas so they can understand how busy traffic affects their application with traffic. They can see how traffic directly affects their application in positive or negative ways."

"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."

"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."

"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."

"The solution is stable, and I don't recall having any significant performance issues with it."

"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."

"We understand for APM, it has the ability to drill down and do the end-to-end monitoring that we are looking for."

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"The solution can be deployed quickly."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its interface, which is used for monitoring."

"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."

"The graphical interfaces, GUI customizations, and alert configurations are impressive."

"Identifying the problem statement is easy."

"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."

"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."

"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."

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Cons

"They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this."

"There are several areas that could be improved in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. One of the main areas is user experience monitoring, which is currently not available. Additionally, they need to develop a solution that is compatible with OpenShift 4, as their current solution only works when an agent is installed within the image, which is not possible in OpenShift 4 as it removes the agent."

"CEM needs to be simplified, because it causes too many interruptions in our daily work."

"The solution still needs the administrator of APM to know a lot more to configure and control everything. So it's a headache for the administrator to do the daily jobs."

"I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead."

"In order for the tool to be successful, at least in our organization, it will need to have more self-serve features for implementation, instrumentation, and then modification of metric data from the APM."

"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."

"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."

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"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."

"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."

"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."

"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."

"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."

"One product area that could benefit from improvement is the synchronization of licensing periods across different modules"

"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."

"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."

"Depends on the size of the product you need."

"It is definitely expensive for what we get, but there isn't an alternate option at the moment."

"The licensing costs are expensive."

"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."

"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."

"Pricing and licensing are not issues."

"Negotiate a lot, but do not forget to buy the product because it is worth it."

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"I would advise potential buyers to wait until the end of the quarter, end of year, or other time to place orders. There are actually great deals to be had at those times if your budget cycle can match up."

"The solution's price is reasonable. Though it's on the higher side, the tool is worth the money."

"The licenses start from USD 3000.00 and go up to USD 20,000.00 for the year. It's a perpetual license. Nothing is free in SolarWinds, anything that you need is an additional cost."

"SAM is not per server so the pricing model can be deceiving. If you have an enterprise environment, you will quickly exceed your licensing quickly. You should know this before going in."

"When compared to other licensed models in the market, it stands out as one of the more cost-effective options."

"We are on an annual license to use the solution. The price of the solution is expensive. The price is based on a bunch of factors, such as the number of engines and elements."

"Understanding the counts of objects to monitor will determine the licensing need. In terms of pricing, it’s not cheap but it’s not expensive as larger vendors whose products don’t have all the features or integrations."

"Price can always be lower. It is neither on the expensive side nor on the cheap side. We have worked with them for a lot of years, so we get a discount due to the size of the installation."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Performing Arts

13%

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application.

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 do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The initial cost is quite high, but the renewal cost is reasonable.

What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

There are no specific features or functionality I would like to see improved or enhanced in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor at this time. I have not encountered any missing features or fu...

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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

SolarWinds SAM

Overview

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is a cutting-edge next-generation APM that goes beyond the traditional aspects of what other APMs provide by offering fully integrated AIOPS (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) capabilities embedded in the solution. This enables Broadcom DX Application Performance Management better opportunities to detect anomalies faster, correctly anticipate behavior, and perform intuitive automatic corrective processes. The solution is able to provide comprehensive full stack end-to-end monitoring and deliver complete visibility and a nearly flawless user experience.

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Benefits

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has many valuable key features. Some of its most useful features include:

Improves visibility: Users gain complete 360-degree visibility with all applications, infrastructure, and end users in modern, traditional, and all cloud-based environments.
Continuous improvement: Intuitive automated feedback is provided throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Scalability: The solution is easily scalable to the enterprise level with very easy to use administration.
Improved user experience: The solution provides intuitive dynamic insights concerning overall application performance and across the complete user journey.

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Features

There are many benefits to implementing Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Custom personalized dashboards: Users are able to create their own specific views based on unique task-driven individualized requirements. This allows for comprehensive intuitive cross-domain analysis of the entire ecosystem and application usage from both synthetic and real user perspectives.
Fast, straightforward deployment: The solution offers an automated, zero-touch deployment process that better facilitates the monitoring and discovery of cloud-based and container applications.
Improved administration processes: Agent administration and overall lifecycle processes are simplified, making configurations, deployments, and upgrades very simple.
Intuitive analysis: The solutions AIOPS processes provide for inherent root-cause detection and anomaly discovery to diagnose potential issues or problems immediately.
Improved visibility: Presented views are task-relevant to facilitate improved group topologies, and time-based to display the impact of performance anomalies.
Improved mapping: Relationship mapping enables users to visualize all aspects of the environment with options to deep dive across entire applications, network layers, and infrastructure.
Application support: The solution has functionality with Java, .Net, PHP, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, and more.
Flexibility: The solution is available both on premises and as a SaaS.

Reviews from Real Users

“The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management for me is transaction monitoring. “ A Peerspot user who is an Applications Engineer at a financial services firm.

“The most valuable features are the low overhead, the ability to monitor production on 24/7 principle, the ability to decrease time to discover the point of failure in the IT infrastructure or the application environment in a short period of time, reporting for analyzing the performance of the application for improving the code optimizing process.” A.Jurisic, CEO at Pio Pet d.o.o.

“What is most valuable about this solution is that it completely monitors code-level visibility. We benefit from this as we're able to capture any performance issues from an application, then raise and forward those issues to the applicable team more quickly.” S. Doddi, APM consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited

Broadcom

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip

Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor