AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs Broadcom DX Application Performance Management comparison

AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Database Monito...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Broadcom DX Application Per...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

32nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

Container Monitoring (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Nuno Rosa

Principal Consultant at Infosys

Has an easy initial setup process and has valuable database performance monitoring features

In one of the scenarios, a retail company encountered transaction failure issues. The problem was not with the card or payment system but the database operations. By utilizing AppDynamics, the team traced end-to-end transactions and identified a database latency problem. Monitoring the entire end-to-end system allows us to pinpoint performance issues in the database. Tracking the user journey helped us identify the issues between the middleware and the database. The topology view feature helps in effective monitoring. However, this feature was developed six years ago and still needs to be updated. The application needs broader improvements and reshaping for this particular area. Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases. During development, it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. It detects and resolves performance issues, ensuring database availability and minimizing downtime. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product's initial setup phase is easy since a separate machine is required, and it is not directly installed on a database as it is a type of proxy."

"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it."

"The dashboards are very well-defined."

"What I found valuable in AppDynamics Database Monitoring is good technical support. I also like that it's scalable and stable."

"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."

"The good thing with AppDynamics Databases is that it will give you a pretty good overview of the data, all the database-like tables, long-running queries, jobs running on the databases, and the queries that are taking more time. So, it's at a deeper level with all the database functionalities, and you will get that information. So, it's a pretty good tool in that sense."

"The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good."

"The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them."

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"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."

"The deployment was easy."

"Deep Dive and Transaction Analysis Triage capability."

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

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

"Standard available reports provide us with an automatic insight into the top ten situations to watch. It would have been extremely difficult to program such a report ourselves, and to my knowledge no other competitor can match this functionality."

"With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool"

"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."

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Cons

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."

"The product requires high maintenance."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring could improve the price of the solution, it is costly."

"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."

"They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution."

"The application monitoring needs improvement. It needs to be easier for someone who isn't a proficient developer."

"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."

"The solution should add some monitoring similar to Oracle monitoring tools for databases. It has a lot of features to monitor SQL queries, and make some recommendation to resolve it. AppDynamics is just monitoring for delays and doesn't provide any recommendations for that. It's a deficiency."

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

"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."

"Java Console uses too much memory."

"In order for the tool to be successful, at least in our organization, it will need to have more self-serve features for implementation, instrumentation, and then modification of metric data from the APM."

"Very often, we use tools such as Kibana or Jaspersoft for dashboards and reporting on CA APM data because CA APM’s old interfaces do not reflect well in modern displays, compared to those new tools."

"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."

"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first."

"Dashboards need to be improved in order to make them self-explanatory."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I give the price a five out of ten."

"We have a license-based solution. That means you need a license for each server you monitor."

"We buy the platform's yearly subscription."

"Pricing is based on the size of the deployment."

"It could be a bit lower, but looking at the scalability, functionality, and other things, you can understand why AppDynamics is so expensive as compared to some of the cheaper products that don't have that full single pane of glass they've got. Dynatrace has got three different elements that you need to log into just to get a full view, which is not so good, and because of that, it is a bit cheaper."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring requires a license for database monitoring and other features, while Dynatrace provides monitoring and other features out of the box without additional costs. Sometimes this makes it more challenging to pitch AppDynamics Database Monitoring to customers, especially because you need to buy a separate license. As an implementer, I have yet to learn about the pricing for AppDynamics Database Monitoring. Pricing is taken care of by the sales team."

"In terms of pricing, I feel that when you compare the benefits that we get to the price that we paid, it is reasonable."

"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."

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

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

"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."

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

"Pricing and licensing are not issues."

"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."

"I'm unable to give information on Broadcom DX Application Performance Management licensing costs, but all Application Performance Management products have expensive pricing. This means that it's not only Broadcom that's expensive, and it would be an advantage if the cost would be a little bit cheaper."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

39%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

The price is not cheap, however, considering the benefits and the price ratio, I would rate it nine out of ten.

What needs improvement with AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Based on my experience, some databases like Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB require a little bit of enhancement as they are newer and not as widely used as other databases. The limitations are o...

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 structure should be based on memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents, as it makes the solution more expensive for us. The pricing structure is too high and becomes increasi...

What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?

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

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DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA

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Overview

More than half of application performance bottlenecks originate in the database, but most application teams have little or no visibility into database performance. With AppDynamics' database performance management product, you get 100% visibility into application performance, from the browser to the database.

Key Benefits

Visualize end-to-end application performance, from the browser to the database
Get alerts when database thresholds are violated
Monitor key performance metrics like top users, programs, SQL, objects and more.
See execution plans for slow SQL to isolate performance bottlenecks

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

Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip

AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management