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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Broadcom DX APM enhances performance and reduces incidents, offering cost savings and flexible pricing, despite challenges in quantifying returns.
Sentiment score
7.5
Users praised Splunk AppDynamics for boosting productivity, reducing bug resolution time, enhancing client experiences, and lowering operational costs.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Broadcom DX's support is praised for knowledge and responsiveness, but criticized for inconsistency, delays, and escalation issues.
Sentiment score
7.3
Splunk AppDynamics offers responsive customer support with knowledgeable staff, though some experience delays with complex issues.
It is difficult to access the right person, and incidents sometimes need escalation.
The customer service and support are helpful and responsive.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
Users find Broadcom DX APM scalable and adaptable, though challenges exist in configuration and infrastructure-dependent effectiveness.
Sentiment score
7.4
AppDynamics is highly scalable and adaptable, but some users face challenges with costs, license scaling, and container support.
I did not find any Docker solution available with it, and a separate instance has to be installed.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
Broadcom DX APM is stable, with rare issues due to configuration, improved by upgrades and best practices adherence.
Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk AppDynamics offers stable performance with seamless integration, though minor issues like slow metrics arise, often resolved easily.
I can rate it nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Broadcom DX APM faces challenges with cost, integration, ease of use, outdated UI, support, and limited AI/ML capabilities.
Users seek improved interface, mobile compatibility, integration, and performance, with enhanced dashboards, licensing, and network monitoring in Splunk AppDynamics.
It is also difficult to access the right person in support, and sometimes incidents need to be escalated, taking several contacts to resolve.
If AppDynamics could develop a means to monitor without an agent, it could significantly improve application performance and reduce potential problems.
 

Setup Cost

Broadcom DX APM pricing is seen as costly, with potential for negotiation and subscription-based licensing per server.
Enterprise buyers find AppDynamics costly with a complex licensing model, but it offers valuable insights justifying the expense.
Customers have to pay a premium price, however, they receive considerable value from the product.
 

Valuable Features

Broadcom DX APM provides comprehensive monitoring, real-time insights, and user-friendly interface for enhanced application performance and quick issue identification.
Splunk AppDynamics excels in performance monitoring with code tracing, intuitive dashboards, and efficient resource usage for troubleshooting.
We have very good dashboards that are very useful for getting all the parameters of the application.
The feature that I appreciate in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is the intuitive and user-friendly dynamic mapping it creates for workflows.
The real-time feature provides me with insights into what's happening.
 

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
31st
Ranking in Container Monitoring
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk AppDynamics
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
3rd
Ranking in Container Monitoring
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
244
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 5.0%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Q&A Highlights

it_user3396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2014
 

Featured Reviews

aush.111 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Dynamic mapping enhances workflows that are user-friendly
One aspect that requires improvement is the agent. Without an agent, gathering sufficient information on applications is challenging. Additionally, the agent sometimes creates performance issues in production environments. If AppDynamics could develop a means to monitor without an agent, it could significantly improve application performance and reduce potential problems. Moving to an agentless solution, like what some competitors are doing, would be beneficial.
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Answers from the Community

it_user3396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014
Saluting Henry from another Henry! Thanks for your sound advice. Henry
2 out of 9 answers
it_user118554 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 20, 2014
All three are good tools for monitoring web application transactions. Of course, CA has a much broader set of capabilities than the other two - can monitor networks, servers, databases, etc. AppDynamics provides a product that you can use in-house. NewRelic is only a SaaS offering. Which of these is best for you - depends on what you need. If you already have CA deployed, you are probably looking at just web transaction monitoring then. AppDynamics and NewRelic are more current in this area than CA Wily.
it_user112596 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 20, 2014
From my experience with CA Wily, it's more expensive and requires a long implementation, it is also less flexible. We did not consider New Relic because we did not want to have our sensitive data hosted in the cloud. Not acceptable in our business. AppDynamics offered a short implementation time, immediate satisfaction and only required fine-tuning afterwards. Also the pricing was lower then CA Wily.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Educational Organization
48%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

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 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 ...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
There are multiple users related to Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. During any severity or incident, our company's customers have dealt with their applications with the help of the ...
Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
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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
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

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