We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor offers advantageous features like infrastructure dependency mapping, thorough monitoring of processes and services, and robust network devices' performance monitoring. Although both products have inconsistent customer service and support feedback, SolarWinds has a more favorable return on investment and is more budget-friendly, making it the preferred solution.
"Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."
"JVM memory monitoring and connection pool monitoring are valuable features."
"We understand for APM, it has the ability to drill down and do the end-to-end monitoring that we are looking for."
"We did the setup for a new datacenter, and that was pretty straightforward."
"We are able to easily and quickly find some of the problems with the applications and coding, and some of the performance problems."
"The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."
"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."
"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature. It is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory. We can go in-depth into services and processes."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"CEM needs to be simplified, because it causes too many interruptions in our daily work."
"User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment."
"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."
"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."
"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."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"The reports are a key part of APM in my vision because it is through them that we manage to generate the evidence to direct the development team and operational support to address. However, we can not extract the information of the tool through reports. We have needed several times to use screen print screen, CTRL + C and CTRL + V."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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