We performed a comparison between Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Splunk APM 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."Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"For me, the most valuable feature is being able to check memory patterns. We check them when we do load testing or soak testing to see if there are any memory leaks."
"The way these tools show the information is very useful. this is a tool that records information from Java and .NET applications, and obtain information about how many times an method has been call in a period of time (usually 30 sec), how many times respond in this span of time or is delayed or stall."
"We did the setup for a new datacenter, and that was pretty straightforward."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"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"
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"The time it takes to track problems in applications is the most valuable return that we have from this solution."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"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."
"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."
"Documentation needs to be centralized."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
"The upgrade was complex. The documentation could have been a little bit better, but other than that, it was okay."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and New Relic, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Observe. See our Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Splunk APM report.
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