Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs Zenoss Cloud comparison

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Zenoss Cloud

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...

Ranking in Container Monitoring

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

162

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (31st)

Zenoss Cloud

Ranking in Container Monitoring

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (33rd), Event Monitoring (14th), Network Monitoring Software (76th), Server Monitoring (23rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (53rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (40th), AIOps (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Container Monitoring category, the mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 2.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zenoss Cloud is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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aush.111

Engineer at Ooredoo Qatar

Provides efficiency in migration and DAW but requires a high level of administrator knowledge for configuration

This solution still relies on inbuilt configuration. For example, I'm pretty much impressed with Dynatrace POC, where we deploy the agent with a simple click, click, click, and then that's it. And we did not build any alerts or anything. We just started getting the alerts, warnings, and everything on its own system, understood what the benchmark is and what is the threshold, and it started giving you the warnings and the caution alerts, the danger alerts. So we expect something like that should be there in Broadcom at the level. But, instead, it expects us to configure. So that is what is missing there. Even if the server CPU usage is 95%t, it doesn't harm you. It doesn't send you any alerts. We think the system is normal. So it's not normal. So this is what they should think and send you AI/ML-related alarms on their own. In future releases, I would like to see more AI and ML capabilities, which are kind of missing. Another area of improvement is its infrastructure monitoring perspective. For example, they are still using UIM, which is a good tool. But for APM, they have come to DXP. However, in terms of UIM, the unified infrastructure management, there is no DXP version or AIML version of it. So they should try to find an updated version of it so that it is not competing with the rest of the solution.

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ClaudiaChen

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.

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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

"Gives us the ability to know how our application is performing in real-time."

"The deep-process instrumentation gave us an opportunity to understand application process performance in detail."

"Proactive snapshots of transactions and all details of a transaction are saved in case of an error."

"Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."

"An application is quite complicated in the environment of a software reliability engineer, because our applications are like a black box. Thanks to CA APM we are able to transform this black box to a gray box by using the transaction trace functionality services. For me it's the most valuable service of the solution."

"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."

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

"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."

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"The most valuable feature is the flexible discovery mechanism."

"The custom built integration is one of the most valuable features because you can see all the especially critical items."

"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."

"They have also accommodated many state-of-the-art technologies like Docker and ZooKeeper."

"The product offers good documentation that helps with initial training."

"Its Docker Container concept is mind blowing. It is the first monitoring tool which comes with Docker features."

Cons

"Support could be much better."

"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."

"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."

"You can sell licenses and install the full tool on service, you can show customers how to install, but how to use it and solve issues cannot be done without the experience."

"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."

"One of the challenges is agent releases. So as we employ agents, they are done relatively manually. A little bit of automating of agent release would be helpful."

"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."

"Our users lag how to identify the root cause with this solution. If they could come up with a more user-friendly version, that would be a good thing, since other vendors currently have better features and more user-friendly products than CA APM."

More Broadcom DX Application Performance Management cons

"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."

"It would be ideal if the product offered sound alerts."

"Now it is stable, but they should design threshold parameters in percentage instead of raw values."

"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"

"The AI aspect needs to improve."

"The inclusion of a feature to show a graphical view of the network would be a helpful improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing structure should be based on memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents, as it makes the solution more expensive for us."

"All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."

"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."

"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."

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

"Dynatrace is the most expensive of these tools followed by AppDynamics which is "medium-expensive." CA APM is a bit lower in price than either Dynatrace or AppDynanics... In my opinion, if you can afford it, go for AppDynamics instead of CA APM."

"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"

More Broadcom DX Application Performance Management pricing and cost advice

"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."

"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."

"It depends on the customer, what he wants."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 pricing is in the middle range. The license is on a yearly basis.

What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?

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...

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...

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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

Cloud Monitoring, Zenoss Service Dynamics

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

Zenoss Cloud revolutionizes IT infrastructure monitoring with a service-centric approach, prioritizing the overall health of services and applications. Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIOps), Zenoss Cloud offers end-to-end visibility across servers, networks, storage, and applications. Real-time monitoring, event correlation, and automated remediation ensure immediate insights and efficient issue resolution. The customizable dashboards empower users to tailor visualizations to their needs, while scalability accommodates diverse infrastructures. Zenoss Cloud guarantees improved application performance, reduced downtime, and enhanced IT efficiency, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes, from small enterprises seeking simplicity to large corporations requiring advanced scalability. Experience unified monitoring and proactive management with Zenoss Cloud, a comprehensive solution that transforms IT infrastructure optimization in today's complex environments.

Zenoss

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

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. Zenoss Cloud