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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DX Application Performance Management

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADX Application Performance Management (formerly CA APM, or CA Application Performance Management) is an application performance management platform designed to correlate and analyze data in real-time. DX APM supports hybrid environments and customizable failure thresholds.N/A

    SolarWinds AppOptics

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of DX Application Performance Management and SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    DX Application Performance Management
    3.7
    6 Ratings
    72% below category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    6.9
    30 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Application monitoring3.26 Ratings8.530 Ratings
    Database monitoring3.24 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Threshold alerts3.26 Ratings6.526 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities4.04 Ratings4.612 Ratings
    Application performance management console3.26 Ratings7.226 Ratings
    Collaboration tools4.03 Ratings6.014 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.05 Ratings6.220 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.05 Ratings6.618 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring4.04 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring3.24 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting4.04 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery4.02 Ratings7.29 Ratings
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    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds AppOptics
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.2
    (6 ratings)
    7.8
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    CA Wily is well suited for monitoring the load balanced application nodes and determine their main performance bottlenecks like if problem exists in heap or in some connection issues. But I think when it comes to providing the entire report of the application, it is less appropriate as there is no way to create the entire report of the test for all the counters monitored. Also there is no way to detect some issues based on the system configuration.
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    SolarWinds
    AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
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    Pros
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    • Alerting which can be customized by the end user.
    • Visualization of the metrics and data presented to provide a unique and attractive interface.
    • Flexibility to manage actions and commands that we deem important for each application. The ability to define these and customize the metrics reported for each individual application is huge for us.
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    SolarWinds
    • Request tracing with code profiling.
    • Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
    • Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
    • Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
    • Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
    • Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • We are facing challenges to meet RFP requirements in few areas where I would recommend CA to improve.
    • We are facing challenges for non (java and dotnet application) which CA APM does not support. SAP is another solution where CA APM is not able to address our business requirement.
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    SolarWinds
    • The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future
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    Usability
    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    As far a usability is concerned for AppOptics, it is just as matter of few minutes away even if you start from scratch, as all you need to do is register on the site and you will get the URL and password. And after this all you have to do is follow the instruction, as per the configuration wizard (tool tip) within the console for various technology such as SQL, IIS, .NET
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    We have never received any support from CA on this product
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    We only have 1 application using DX APM, while most of other applications are instrumented using Dynatrace. Dynatrace provides a better monitoring and instrumentation for applications. The required effort to setup monitoring capability using DX APM is way more work compared to Dynatrace, also the amount of KPIs offered from Dynatrace is more than DX APM.
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    SolarWinds
    What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
    • Easy to install and manage.
    • Various stack support.
    • Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
    • Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
    • Alerts can be sent on different channels.
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • Introscope is deeply utilized within the organization. However, CEM and Team Center not as much. Those that use one piece don't generally use the others. Partially because of the curve in learning how to use the consoles effectively.
    • reporting is pretty well configured and easy to setup if you know how to use the tools. So this can be easy to use and takes less time to configure for the different groups within the organization.
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    SolarWinds
    • Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
    • As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
    • Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
    • Installation and integration is easy.
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