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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs Zenoss Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...
Ranking in Container Monitoring
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (29th)
Zenoss Cloud
Ranking in Container Monitoring
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (21st), Event Monitoring (13th), Network Monitoring Software (70th), Server Monitoring (26th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (54th), Cloud Monitoring Software (42nd), AIOps (26th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Container Monitoring category, the mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 6.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zenoss Cloud is 3.5%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management6.0%
Zenoss Cloud3.5%
Other90.5%
Container Monitoring
 

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.
ClaudiaChen - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect - Senior Technology Architect at Telstra
Generates close to real-time alerts so users can resolve issues, but needs more integration and public cloud monitoring features
As Zenoss Service Dynamics is more for network-centric devices and you want to monitor, for example, a server, its services, IP addresses, and interfaces, if it's a network and you're going to monitor multiple items, you'll be charged multiple times. This is what Zenoss Service Dynamics needs to improve to make sure that customers pay just one fee to monitor the entire server. What I'd like to see in Zenoss Service Dynamics in the future is a public cloud monitoring feature, particularly for the Azure public cloud. Another additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is integration with the Azure public cloud because I know that there are some services from Azure that Zenoss Service Dynamics is currently unable to monitor.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The time it takes to track problems in applications is the most valuable return that we have from this solution."
"In many organizations I've seen this product working in, SEV1s have been reduced quite a bit, and in one particular organization, within the first 12 months, SEV1s were reduced by 90% just by introducing this product."
"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."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"A client claims that they have had better management and administration along with advanced reporting capabilities to the Privacy Authorities of State."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."
"CA APM is based on a solid solution that could be helpful for everybody."
"It's easy to use."
"What I like most about Zenoss Service Dynamics is that it monitors the devices and gives close to real-time alerts. For example, in case the device is not available, Zenoss Service Dynamics generates an alert so my team can resolve the issue."
"Overall, it's a great solution, and I consider it to be one of the best."
"With this solution, they can have one million users at the same time with no crashes."
"They have also accommodated many state-of-the-art technologies like Docker and ZooKeeper."
"It is the most flexible solution of this type, but it takes time to adapt."
"Zenoss is more complex than LogicMonitor, but scalable and hugely customizable."
"The most valuable feature is the flexible discovery mechanism."
 

Cons

"On Windows Platform, it’s not great and/or stable (from previous experience)."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"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."
"However, ten years ago, the solution was better, and now there are many competitive options."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"I'd like to see more source code at the exceptions level. I'd like to be able to get down to the actual code-class file and know what the issues are there."
"There are times where capacity is reached and we face performance issues where the system becomes unstable."
"It could be faster. For example, when we are upgrading the product, it takes a lot of time and there are a lot of things we have to do manually."
"The AI aspect needs to improve."
"It would be ideal if the product offered sound alerts."
"The AI aspect needs to improve."
"There was a problem with Zenoss and storage monitoring."
"There was a problem with Zenoss and storage monitoring."
"There is room for improvement with the administrative part. They introduced Control Center to manage things in Zenoss 5. The services that Zenoss provides remained the same, but the administrative part, since they introduced Docker, etc., has become a little complex"
"Technical support is 3/10, poor: Incomplete and poor documentation Undocumented processes Inconsistent solutions to problems depending on source"
"The inclusion of a feature to show a graphical view of the network would be a helpful improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Pricing and licensing are not issues."
"Depends on the size of the product you need."
"All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
"The licensing costs are expensive."
"Negotiate a lot, but do not forget to buy the product because it is worth it."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"The pricing depends on the environment, the number of services, and the size of the data center. It can go from $100,000 to a million dollars."
"There are additional costs you'll have to pay apart from the license fee for Zenoss Service Dynamics. I can't remember exactly how much my company is paying because I don't handle the finance part, but the cost is paid annually. On a scale of one to five, with one being the cheapest and five being the most expensive, I'm rating the solution three out of five."
"It depends on the customer, what he wants."
"It is very cost-effective compared to the tools I worked with in the past. The company is gaining a lot with respect to the cost factor. It provides agentless monitoring and in a very cheap way."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Performing Arts
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Transportation Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise124
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise5
 

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...
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
In my experience, I worked with many monitoring software, but the one that gave me the most functionalities of a large-scale company is Zenoss, due to its ability to monitor completely hybrid and a...
 

Also Known As

DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
Cloud Monitoring, Zenoss Service Dynamics
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
2degrees, Rackspace, State of North Dakota, El Paso Independent School District, NWN Corporation
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