F5 Beacon vs. IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Beacon
Score 9.8 out of 10
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F5 Beacon an open source tool used to gain full visibility across an application landscape, obtain app insights and business intelligence, and make better-informed decisions. With the Beacon Insight Engine, users can leverage pre-built insights or create custom insights. Beacon also integrates with many types of deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments—and provides a set of app stats in a simple SaaS model.
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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect
Score 0.0 out of 10
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A connector that provides transaction tracing information from z/OS subsystems to enterprise-wide Observability solutions by using OpenTelemetry. By tracing the flow of hybrid application spanning public cloud to mainframe, the user can eliminate IBM Z blind zones in an enterprise-wide observability strategy.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
F5 BeaconIBM Z Application Performance Management Connect
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
F5 Beacon
9.5
2 Ratings
21% above category average
IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect
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Ratings
Application monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Testimonials
F5 BeaconIBM Z Application Performance Management Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
It is very well suited in complex, multi-cloud application environments where it provides holistic, application-centric visibility by ingesting data from NGINX and other telemetry sources. It helps troubleshoot performance issues in high-availability and regulated environments where outages have a high impact on strict SLAs. It is less appropriate in situations where organizations rely on unmaintained or archived integrations.
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Pros
F5
  • Accelerated troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Unified application visibility across hybrid environments
  • Business level insight & KPI correlation
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Cons
F5
  • F5 needs improvement in Platform Stability and Maintenance gaps.
  • It has limited built-in insights and relies heavily on customization.
  • Application modeling and data ingestion setup is complex.
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Usability
F5
The reason of giving above rating of 10 is that it offers intuitive, centralized dashboard which reduces the need to switch between multiple tools making it easier for IT teams to quickly assess application health. Moreover it offers easy correlation of technical and business metrics by linking application performance data directly to business KPIs. the major benefit of using Beacon is that it simplifies troubleshooting workflow which reduces Mean Time To Resolution hence improving productivity and minimizing downtime.
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 Beacon is best for F5-centric, hybrid, app-centric visibility, whereas Datadog is best for cloud-native, distributed observability. F5 beacon is superior for understanding BIG-IP flows, WAF, ADC behavior at the app level. It has a unified view of F5-powered applications. F5 Beacon simplifies troubleshooting across multicloud F5 deployments. Beacon provides business logic level visibility.
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Return on Investment
F5
  • Positive: Reduced downtime costs
  • Positive: Improved IT efficiency
  • Positive: Better business-IT alignment
  • Negative: Scaling costs in large enterprises.
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IBM
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