IT Service Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-02-03T08:25:00Z
Feb 3, 2019
I would rate it an eight out of ten. The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool. They should develop the user experience so that you don't need to put in other agents. Today you have to use another host to bring up your vision. If they would have a single agent with all this information, it would be perfect.
Consider the compatibility first, then consider the resources required, finally consider the applications that you will be monitoring. Then, you can go deploy them. We used the Five-Pack when onboarding services. We also used SiteMinder and introduced synthetic monitoring, integrating with CA Spectrum and CA Service Desk. We use several CA applications. Everything is interconnected to get triggered and tickets routed to a particular thing automatically.
The important things for us when selecting a vendor are * how good is their product and * the reviews of that product. I would say try CA APM and tune it the way it is recommended by CA Admins and from configuration guide. You'll find a lot of people complain about it because they do not tune the APM Cluster as recommended, and the agent as well.
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
2015-10-31T19:00:00Z
Oct 31, 2015
You should only use a preferred partner of CA. Over the couple of years, since I first reviewed the product here, my rating of it hasn't changed. I still rate it at eight out of ten. I rated it eight because it is a good CEM experience but there is room for improvement with CA APM. It is it's quite tricky to implement because you need to have traffic monitoring, etc. in place. I have been using Dynatrace for the last nine months or so and I would rate it at nine out of ten.
It’s a great product and provides a lot of in-depth data. Focus and leverage this product as a deep dive one and have another layer above it (another high-level view product etc..)
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Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
2014-04-15T11:17:00Z
Apr 15, 2014
Definitely a good product, worth going for. Since I first reviewed the product here, about two years ago, I would currently not change my rating of eight out of ten. CA APM hasn't changed much in that time.
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I would rate it an eight out of ten. The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool. They should develop the user experience so that you don't need to put in other agents. Today you have to use another host to bring up your vision. If they would have a single agent with all this information, it would be perfect.
Consider the compatibility first, then consider the resources required, finally consider the applications that you will be monitoring. Then, you can go deploy them. We used the Five-Pack when onboarding services. We also used SiteMinder and introduced synthetic monitoring, integrating with CA Spectrum and CA Service Desk. We use several CA applications. Everything is interconnected to get triggered and tickets routed to a particular thing automatically.
Its presence is needed in our cloud solutions. Other solutions have been present from early on, but we use this solution to focus on the cloud.
The important things for us when selecting a vendor are * how good is their product and * the reviews of that product. I would say try CA APM and tune it the way it is recommended by CA Admins and from configuration guide. You'll find a lot of people complain about it because they do not tune the APM Cluster as recommended, and the agent as well.
You should only use a preferred partner of CA. Over the couple of years, since I first reviewed the product here, my rating of it hasn't changed. I still rate it at eight out of ten. I rated it eight because it is a good CEM experience but there is room for improvement with CA APM. It is it's quite tricky to implement because you need to have traffic monitoring, etc. in place. I have been using Dynatrace for the last nine months or so and I would rate it at nine out of ten.
It’s a great product and provides a lot of in-depth data. Focus and leverage this product as a deep dive one and have another layer above it (another high-level view product etc..)
Definitely a good product, worth going for. Since I first reviewed the product here, about two years ago, I would currently not change my rating of eight out of ten. CA APM hasn't changed much in that time.