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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Broadcom Application Delivery Analysis

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABroadcom Application Delivery Analysis is an application performance management tool designed to prove how well a network delivers applications to users with application delivery analysis of performance and availability of SLA measurements.N/A

    IBM Instana

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AInstana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.

    $75

    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)

    Pricing
    Broadcom Application Delivery AnalysisIBM Instana
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $18
    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
    Standard
    $75
    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
    Self-Hosted
    $93.80
    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Broadcom Application Delivery AnalysisIBM Instana
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Broadcom Application Delivery AnalysisIBM Instana
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Broadcom Application Delivery Analysis and IBM Instana
    Feature
    Broadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    9.6
    1 Ratings
    23% above category average
    IBM Instana
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Broadcom Application Delivery AnalysisIBM Instana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Broadcom Application Delivery AnalysisIBM Instana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    Look no farther than this tool if you need an API testing solution that also includes service virtualization. This technology also forces you to move your testing lifecycle to earlier stages of development, which improves the overall SDLC.
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    IBM
    With enterprise IT assets in a multitude of ecosystems, cloud infrastructures and sometimes still left stuck in a legacy on prem architecture, IBM Instana makes it easy to get the right data to drive development and / or DevSecOps processes with tangible input from the target environment itself.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • This is an excellent tool for implementing Service virtualization in your own and/or third-party web services. This ensures that our automation and performance test environments are always available and consistent.
    • This application also aids in the setup and maintenance of test data, which is an important component of test automation.
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    IBM
    • Can monitor application(s) and system(s) with very large throughput of transactions by the second ( it gets everything !!!)
    • Provide strong drill down for your applications and will tell you where the points of failure of an application's is ( servers , network , Databases , etc you name it )
    • Very easy to set up and have it up and running when using the SaaS solution. There's an on premise solution which works just as well but requires more effort and preparation from an infrastructure point of view for your teams to implement.
    • Continuously improve their features and their agents auto-update and keep up. All while not interfering with your applications.
    • Let's you create your own dashboards and visualizations that can be tailored for different kind of users with the data collected.
    • Create your own events and smart alerts so you can know on the spot if something is happening or is likely to happen that needs addressing on your applications / systems
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • This tool has a license fee and is not free. Many open-source tools provide free API testing solutions, therefore turning some of this tool's features open-source might be beneficial.
    • The tool's load testing component is not integrated and instead relies on the free Blaze meter.
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    IBM
    • It's very difficult to create custom dashboards, only a handful of scenarios can be visualized to dashboards.
    • Extracting information from Instana to further analysis into excel for example is something that can be improved. Using an API to get data is very limiting.
    • Open telemetry features which allow to send application data to Instana is not working as documented.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Instana has been able to fulfill our all requirement and provide out of box solution for multiple component like AWS RDS Monitoring and real time alerting setup on basis of that. it is also easy to integrate with other open-source alerting and monitoring tools which makes it easier to incorporate into our solutions
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM Instana totally alters our monitoring approach since it increases the stability of the system and simplifies the process of problem solving. And since it helps to lower the degree of alert exhaustion that we experience, it is a total game changer for us.
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM instana support team is good but when we ask them for support, they keep asking same thing again and again and mostly there is no solution
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    Along with the Parasoft SOA tool, it is unquestionably among the top leaders in API testing and virtualization. Many open-source API testing libraries are free, including Rest Assured, Karate, and even Postman and SOAP UI, which goes against CA.
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    IBM
    As a DevOps engineer, I've explored various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, including New Relic for real-time insights, AppDynamics for code-level visibility, Dynatrace for AI-driven monitoring, Datadog for comprehensive observability, Splunk for log management, Stackify Retrace for error tracking, and Raygun for crash reporting. Each tool offers distinct features, and the choice depends on specific use cases, technology stacks, and organizational needs. Thorough evaluations, considering factors like ease of use, integration capabilities, and scalability, help in selecting the most suitable APM solution for effective application monitoring in a DevOps environment.
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • In our group, this instrument produced a high return on investment. We saw a considerable reduction in downtime in our test environments thanks to service virtualization.
    • In addition, service virtualization reduces the expenses of interacting with third-party services, which is common in low-cost contexts.
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    IBM
    • Increase up time by early failure identification and performance optimization based on findings in Instana.
    • Enhance user experience by mapping user issues with backend failures
    • Automated actions help fixing known issues without human intervention
    • increase support team efficiency by root cause analysis which decrease the incident solving time
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