DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs SolarWinds AppOptics comparison

Broadcom and SolarWinds are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #54, while SolarWinds is ranked #57. Broadcom holds a 0.6% mindshare in IM, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.4% 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

54th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

40th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (75th), Server Monitoring (23rd), AIOps (25th)

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

57th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

43rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (56th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds AppOptics is 0.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Great scalability, versatility, infrastructure coverage and ease of implementation

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The number of people needed for deployment depends on the customer, but we usually need at least one person and two to three at other times. The initial implementation takes about two months. The full implementation can be infinite because you may want to implement more. The product does not require a lot of maintenance. To increase the implementation, we push additional services in the first and second years to make it more robust and fully implemented. We usually sell to big enterprises. It can also be affordable for smaller enterprises, but we don't work with them a lot. We have from 2,000 to 10,000 workers. So the product itself can have five, ten or even 20 users.

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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

"DX UIM is scalable."

"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."

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

"The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."

"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."

"I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution."

"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."

"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."

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"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."

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

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

"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."

Cons

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

"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."

"I'm very happy with DX Unified Infrastructure Management, but what could be improved is its user interface because currently, it has many wide spaces. All the information you need is in DX Unified Infrastructure Management, and it's a reliable tool, and though that's more important than the gaps in the user interface being smaller or wider, those gaps still need some improvement. I know the team is working on it. My company had some backend problems with DX Unified Infrastructure Management in the past that have now been solved. The setup for the tool also needs improvement because it's complex. Another room for improvement in DX Unified Infrastructure Management is its technical support because it's sometimes not as knowledgeable or responsive. What I'm suggesting to be added to the tool is an open-standard ELK Elastic-based database where you can put in all data, so that you can use the data in other systems as well."

"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."

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

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

"There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want."

More DX Unified Infrastructure Management cons

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

"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."

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

"The solution should be more user-friendly."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"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)."

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

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

"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."

"I believe the current licensing cost is reasonable."

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

31%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

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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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