DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs Instana Infrastructure Monitoring comparison

Broadcom and Instana are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #55, while Instana is ranked #32 with an average rating of 9.5. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to Instana’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Instana users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and Instana Infrastructure Monitoring are competitors in infrastructure monitoring. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring appears to have the upper hand with its advanced features despite higher costs.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers robust reporting, customizable dashboards, and cost-effectiveness. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring includes AI-driven insights, automatic root cause analysis, and detailed insight automation.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could improve feature depth, AI automation, and real-time analysis capabilities. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring might benefit from more competitive pricing, broader compatibility, and enhanced reporting options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management provides flexible deployment and strong customer support suitable for varied environments. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring offers a rapid deployment process and efficient customer service, appealing to those needing quick implementation.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management delivers competitive setup costs, providing significant ROI through affordability. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring commands a higher initial investment, justified by rich functionalities and long-term value.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

55th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

41st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (75th), Server Monitoring (24th), AIOps (21st)

Instana Infrastructure Moni...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

32nd

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

24th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Arunpandiyan M

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support

There are quite a few manual processes. We've had issues with pulling reports. Sometimes we have trouble or get errors. The reporting process should be easier. If you have a hub, you should be able to have an unlimited number of servers. For example, if you have 500 servers, and the limit is ten, you have to pull 50 reports. We'd like to just pull one report for all servers. This also increases the time to pull reports. If we have to pull more reports, it takes that much longer than just pulling one. The product can be expensive. Right now, they are updating and consolidating the dashboard. I'm expecting an update that will resolve a few glitches in the server.

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Hakimuddin Ronaque

Assistant Manager at Lauren Information Technologies Pvt Ltd

Has the capability to automatically integrate with a large number of products

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. I have not worked much on other technologies, like SAP or VMware's virtualization part, on-prem infrastructure, or cloud infrastructure. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is so fast and easy to adapt that it works fine. I have not explored other operating systems or infrastructure solutions because my company doesn't have that customer scale. Most of our customers are on-prem or on AWS or Azure, but Instana Infrastructure Monitoring adapts to their infrastructure very well. My company came to know how well Instana Infrastructure Monitoring adapts to our customers' infrastructures when we take care of the PoC phase. Around 12 to 15 people in my company use the product.

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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

"Having all of our information within one tool set; our alerts, our monitors, and the things that our operations team needs to function."

"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."

"It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."

"DX UIM is scalable."

"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."

"It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable."

"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."

"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."

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"The product's initial setup is easy."

"The product is easy to deploy."

Cons

"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."

"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."

"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."

"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."

"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."

"The dashboards need to be improved."

"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."

"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."

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"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"The cost of the tool is around 130 USD per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

We are an integrating company that offers DX Unified Infrastructure Management to customers. We help them set it up, do the integration, and provide support. Our end customers include financial ins...

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Infrastructure Manager?

I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten due to its robust functionality and capability to support inf...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Infrastructure Manager?

The pricing of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is high and often a concern for customers. The cost is higher compared to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), which is feedback we hav...

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What do you like most about Instana Infrastructure Monitoring?

The product is easy to deploy.

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What needs improvement with Instana Infrastructure Monitoring?

The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required.

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What is your primary use case for Instana Infrastructure Monitoring?

I use the solution in my company, especially if an application is down and it is considered to be a P1 issue or a critical issue. The network team will blame the application team, while the applica...

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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

Broadcom

Instana ensures that your application delivery organization has the data, visibility and information they need to manage the performance of critical business applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Built to handle the dynamic nature of containerized, microservice architectures, Instana automates infrastructure and application monitoring helping you to ensure the performance and quality of custom applications and accelerate your CI/CD cycle.

Instana

Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

booxware, drivenow, scopevisio, enevo, TimoCom, mobitech

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