Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

Broadcom and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Broadcom is ranked #34 with an average rating of 7.8, while SolarWinds is ranked #24 with an average rating of 7.3. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor are two competitive products in the application performance monitoring space. User reviews suggest that while Broadcom excels in certain areas, SolarWinds is perceived to have a stronger overall value proposition.

What features are offered by Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is valued for its deep-dive analytics, comprehensive monitoring capabilities, and ability to integrate with various applications. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is praised for its user-friendly setup, extensive monitoring features, and robust reporting tools. SolarWinds appears to have a slight edge due to its broader feature set and reliability, as reported by users.

What areas of improvement can be found in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Users have pointed out that Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve in user-friendliness and support documentation. Meanwhile, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could benefit from enhancements in its alerting system and dashboard customization options. Both products have areas that need enhancement, but user feedback indicates Broadcom needs to focus more on its usability aspects.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management reviews highlight a complex deployment process but commendable customer support. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is noted for its quicker, more straightforward deployment with equally strong customer service. SolarWinds stands out with its user-acclaimed ease of deployment.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management's setup costs are perceived as higher, and users are divided on its ROI. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor offers more competitive pricing with a better ROI, according to user feedback. Users feel that SolarWinds provides greater value for their investment, making it the more cost-effective choice.

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

34th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

Container Monitoring (8th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (11th), Active Directory Management (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 1.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

A tool helpful for dashboard creation and reporting

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 the onboarding-related part. With the tool, there is a very lengthy process to do the onboarding of an application. I don't know which version of the tool is currently running in the market. I use a very old version of the product, and I don't know what kind of features Broadcom has made available in the current release of the tool. If technical support related to the product is improved, considering what kind of product has been provided to users to ensure that the product is supported in an environment, then it would be great. Suppose there is a Java application in an environment, and it may be related to Java 5, Java 6, Java 7, or Java 8, and a user receives no technical specification related to what kind of version the application supports, including Java JDK 11 and Java JDK 17, it poses a challenge. The product does not provide details about which version of Java is supported, meaning such information related to the product is unavailable. The product's technical support is an area with certain shortcomings, where improvements are required. The technical support of the product is an area with certain shortcomings, where improvements are required. The aforementioned scenario is not just related to Java but also to all the application languages. The tool is required to build correct documentation related to its product and versions, explaining what kind of version is supported related to their onboarded applications, and it is not just related to Java but also to Python, .NET, Python.js, and PHP.

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Subhajit Nag

Senior Process Associate at Tata Consultancy Services

The component and cable monitoring features are good, but the interface is slow

SolarWinds' interface is slow, and this is a global concern. Every SolarWinds user complains about the sluggishness. The response is slow. If you browse from one page to another, you have to wait. Our company is a massive user with plenty of licenses, so the performance issues could be due to the load per license. Ten thousand components can be mapped under one license. So SolarWinds needs to take care of the speed problem. It cannot be this slow. That is a huge complaint. Otherwise, the tool is good. It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle. The upgrade time matters because you only install the solution once, but you'll need to upgrade the solution repeatedly over the life of the product. A complex installation isn't an issue, but I mind if the upgrade takes too long because it's already in production.

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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

"We are using the on-premise and cloud versions of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management."

"Being able to pull in and merge the infrastructure and application data."

"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."

"Deep Dive and Transaction Analysis Triage capability."

"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."

"It's a very stable product."

"The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is its very light model with monitoring of servers and network items."

"The way these tools show the information is very useful. this is a tool that records information from Java and .NET applications, and obtain information about how many times an method has been call in a period of time (usually 30 sec), how many times respond in this span of time or is delayed or stall."

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"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its interface, which is used for monitoring."

"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."

"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."

"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."

"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."

"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."

"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."

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Cons

"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."

"Documentation needs to be centralized."

"I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead."

"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."

"They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this."

"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."

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

"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."

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"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."

"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."

"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."

"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."

"The technical support team's response time could be improved."

"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."

"They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features."

"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."

"The licensing costs are expensive."

"The license for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is annual. The licensing model could improve because there is not any limit to deploying the agent, there should be some limits on it."

"Depends on the size of the product you need."

"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."

"Dynatrace is the most expensive of these tools followed by AppDynamics which is "medium-expensive." CA APM is a bit lower in price than either Dynatrace or AppDynanics... In my opinion, if you can afford it, go for AppDynamics instead of CA APM."

"Pricing and licensing are not issues."

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"The product is expensive."

"SAM is not per server so the pricing model can be deceiving. If you have an enterprise environment, you will quickly exceed your licensing quickly. You should know this before going in."

"The price is too high."

"The solution is overpriced in terms of application management."

"Price can always be lower. It is neither on the expensive side nor on the cheap side. We have worked with them for a lot of years, so we get a discount due to the size of the installation."

"I have always said SolarWinds is very “proud” of their products, meaning they are expensive. I cannot afford to purchase all the licenses I need for all the SolarWinds products."

"When planning for the number of licenses to purchase, make sure you understand all of the elements within an application required to really understand performance well. In our case, we quickly came to the conclusion that an unlimited license for SAM was the way to go."

"Its licensing is on a yearly basis. It is just the standard price, but it can vary depending on the current rate of the dollar."

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

14%

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Educational Organization

45%

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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.

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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...

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What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The product is expensive.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

One product area that could benefit from improvement is the synchronization of licensing periods across different modules. The misalignment of licensing terms can present commercial challenges when...

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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

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

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

Sample Customers

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

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