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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

    Scout Monitoring

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Scout APM is offered to enable software developers to spend their time building products customers love by minimizing the effort required to identify and resolve performance issues. As a provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, Scout states that their developer-centric approach pinpoints issues such as memory bloat, N+1 queries and other abnormalities, enabling customers to quickly resolve performance issues.

    $19

    per month 600k monthly transactions included

    Pricing
    DX Application Performance ManagementScout Monitoring
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    The Startup Plan
    $19
    per month 600k monthly transactions included
    The Small Plan
    $39
    per month 1.2m monthly transactions included
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DX Application Performance ManagementScout Monitoring
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DX Application Performance ManagementScout Monitoring
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of DX Application Performance Management and Scout Monitoring
    Feature
    DX Application Performance Management
    3.7
    6 Ratings
    69% below category average
    Scout Monitoring
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Application monitoring3.26 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Database monitoring3.24 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts3.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console3.26 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration tools4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring3.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DX Application Performance ManagementScout Monitoring
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.2
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DX Application Performance ManagementScout Monitoring
    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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    Scout Monitoring
    To me, it's the best APM out there for a Rails application. It is really easy to set up, configure and start debugging any kind of bad-performing endpoint. We have solved issues going from High Response Time to Memory Leaks/Bloats. All of this can be achieved even if you are hosting your app in a PaaS like Heroku. (Where sometimes is difficult to install an agent like in other vendors).
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • 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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    Scout Monitoring
    • I specifically use the risk assessment module and do risk assessments on any new product we introduce into our network or any company that we are thinking about taking on as a client.
    • I also use the vendor management module for any due diligence that comes up with a new company or a company that we may use once and then not use again.
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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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    Scout Monitoring
    • Errors (is a new functionality but I didn't get well how it can replace rollbar for example).
    • Usage measuring: In some cases is easy to get "disabled" due to a peak of bad requests.
    • Editing app's names
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    We have never received any support from CA on this product
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    Scout Monitoring
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Scout Monitoring
    I've already explained why this product beats Excel hands down in time and money. I also love the way it sends you an email when you forget any due diligence or testing that needs to be done.
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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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    Scout Monitoring
    • Speed to solve incidents
    • Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments
    • Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq)
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    ScreenShots

    Scout Monitoring Screenshots

    Screenshot of Scout DashboardScreenshot of Backtrace viewScreenshot of Database Add-onScreenshot of N+1 InsightsScreenshot of Memory InsightsScreenshot of Slow Query Insights