Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

Broadcom and VMware are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Broadcom is ranked #33 with an average rating of 7.8, while VMware is ranked #48 with an average rating of 7.0. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to VMware’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and VMware Aria Operations for Applications compete in the application performance monitoring sphere. VMware Aria Operations for Applications appears to have the upper hand due to superior features, despite Broadcom's strengths in pricing and support.

What features are offered by Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to VMware Aria Operations for Applications?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, advanced analytics, and user-friendly dashboards. VMware Aria Operations for Applications provides extensive VMware ecosystem integration, detailed performance insights, and advanced analytic capabilities.

What areas of improvement can be found in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to VMware Aria Operations for Applications?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve its customization options, speed of issue resolution, and scalability. VMware Aria Operations for Applications needs better documentation, more responsive support, and user interface enhancements.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to VMware Aria Operations for Applications?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is noted for its straightforward deployment process and highly responsive customer service. VMware Aria Operations for Applications is also easy to deploy, but it receives mixed feedback on customer service response times.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management in comparison to VMware Aria Operations for Applications?

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has reasonable setup costs and offers a solid ROI. VMware Aria Operations for Applications, although more expensive, is considered worth the investment due to its robust features. Broadcom's product is more cost-effective, while VMware's offering is favored for its comprehensive performance monitoring abilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

33rd

Ranking in Container Monitoring

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

48th

Ranking in Container Monitoring

9th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (45th), Cloud Monitoring Software (33rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 0.8%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

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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Yves Sandfort

CEO & Majority Shareholder at Comdivision Consulting GmbH

Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights

Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more. The other thing for us is that while it is great that we have all these standard metrics, it would be good if we can also more easily define standard metrics to be consumed for our own application. At the moment, for a lot of applications, we have to reinvent the wheel every time. If there was something so that we can build our own packaging of metrics, it would be helpful. In the future, we might be deploying our software to other customers as well. So, they should make it easier to redeploy that. There should be more customizable dashboards. The Wavefront dashboards are very technical and a more business-oriented dashboard design would definitely help.

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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

"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."

"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."

"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."

"Measurement of response time"

"The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management for me is transaction monitoring. The technical support provided for the solution is also an advantage."

"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."

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

"The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."

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"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."

"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."

"People are very pleased with the implementation."

"No issues with stability."

"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."

"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."

"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."

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Cons

"Java Console uses too much memory."

"I think as we're all moving forward to automated deployments, it'd be nice to have that out-of-the-box with this product."

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

"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."

"It doesn't have a proper database, and the configuration is very difficult."

"The following need improvement: 1) Integration of third-party content into app maps (e.g. data coming from beats/elastic platform). 2) Support of new application server technologies, time to adopt new versions of them. 3) Dashboarding capabilities (as with all other vendors). 4) Application architecture of the central Enterprise Manager should be developed into a cloud native architecture. 5) Mitigation of SPOF – PostgreSQL database, behind Team Center."

"Needs custom dashboards."

"You can sell licenses and install the full tool on service, you can show customers how to install, but how to use it and solve issues cannot be done without the experience."

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"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."

"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."

"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."

"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."

"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."

"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."

"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."

"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."

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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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."

"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."

"It is definitely expensive for what we get, but there isn't an alternate option at the moment."

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"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

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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 VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support.

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What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems. The initial setup should be easier and more seamless.

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What is your primary use case for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

I primarily use the solution for consulting. I help company DevOps teams.

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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

Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability

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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

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

Sample Customers

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

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