DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs SolarWinds AppOptics comparison

Broadcom and SolarWinds are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #55, while SolarWinds is ranked #50 with an average rating of 8.0. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds AppOptics are competing in the field of IT infrastructure and application performance management. DX UIM seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive scalability and stability, making it a preferred choice for large enterprises.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers extensive scalability, supporting global monitoring with a low system footprint and simplified console-based maintenance. It provides flexibility in multi-tenancy, and dashboard customization, and supports a wide range of probes, enhancing its stability. SolarWinds AppOptics provides broad application performance management, robust dashboard capabilities, and seamless integration with other systems.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management needs to address customer support concerns during the transition from CA to Broadcom, improve VM monitoring, and enhance maintenance modes. SolarWinds AppOptics could benefit from enhanced integration features, a centralized information hub, and improvements in its user interface for easier monitoring.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX UIM supports hybrid cloud environments but receives mixed reviews on customer service consistency, especially post-CA acquisition. SolarWinds AppOptics operates on on-premises and public cloud setups and is praised for attentive customer support and swift resolution of technical issues.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management, though considered expensive, offers functionalities that justify the cost for larger enterprises through quick ROI and flexible licensing. SolarWinds AppOptics has a straightforward licensing approach, seen as reasonably priced, suitable for cost-effective solutions, with variable ROI depending on deployment scale and feature usage.

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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)

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

50th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

34th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (47th)

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 SolarWinds AppOptics is 0.3%, down from 0.4% 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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John Yuko

Assistant Manager ICT - Projects at I&M Bank Ltd

Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions

I would like to see more granular information provided on Unix applications. Also, the integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward in terms having an agent to retrieve your credentials rather than having to enter or save them for SSH on SolarWinds. From the outset, we had to set some commands to log into the search console, and they are saved on the solution, which presents a challenge in terms of exposure. The solution is unable to monitor APK solutions completely because we'd then be forced to break down the APK and provide the APIs or go through the source code. They don't have a module that can analyze an application that is maybe under-used.

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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

"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."

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

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

"Probe packages and probe deployment."

"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."

"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."

"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."

"MultiWAN and Balance service"

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"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."

"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."

"The reporting of the solution is very good."

"The product has a great dashboard."

"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."

"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."

Cons

"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."

"I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts."

"The dashboards need to be improved."

"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."

"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."

"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."

More DX Unified Infrastructure Management cons

"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."

"The solution should be more user-friendly."

"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."

"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."

"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."

"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

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

"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."

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

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"I believe the current licensing cost is reasonable."

"Mostly, it's a perpetual license. We don't have any customers using the subscription right now—it's mostly a perpetual license that the customers purchase. The licensing is based on the number of elements, whereas other solutions are node-based."

"Since it's a negotiable rate, I would rate the pricing as a five out of five."

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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

Educational Organization

51%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 SolarWinds AppOptics?

The product has a great dashboard.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds AppOptics?

The solution should be more user-friendly.

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds AppOptics?

I used the solution for monitoring servers and network equipment.

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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

AppOptics, SolarWinds TraceView, Librato

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

AppOptics is a SaaS-based simple, powerful and affordable Infrastructure & Application monitoring for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems.

Your business runs on applications, and when they go down or run slowly, it can impact the business in lost productivity, customers, or revenue. To add to the complexity, your IT environment is changing, and workloads can be spread across data centers, and cloud resources. You need to monitor the availability and performance of applications and infrastructure, regardless of where they are, so you can identify potential issues early and address them before they impact users

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

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

TraxoCovea Insurance BTE TechnologyDatarista

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