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    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 Server & Application Monitor

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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    Community Pulse
    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    It does not give you near the detail SCOM does. The CA products are much harder to configure, but they give you a more fluid look and much more reliable information. Out of the four, I would rate SAM at the bottom.
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
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    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of DX Application Performance Management and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    DX Application Performance Management
    3.7
    6 Ratings
    69% below category average
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    8.6
    276 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Application monitoring3.26 Ratings8.9266 Ratings
    Database monitoring3.24 Ratings8.4230 Ratings
    Threshold alerts3.26 Ratings8.9271 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities4.04 Ratings8.2215 Ratings
    Application performance management console3.26 Ratings8.2239 Ratings
    Collaboration tools4.03 Ratings7.7148 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.05 Ratings7.8256 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.05 Ratings8.5216 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring4.04 Ratings8.8234 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring3.24 Ratings9.8269 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting4.04 Ratings9.1250 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery4.02 Ratings9.0199 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.8
    (278 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DX Application Performance ManagementSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    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
    For monitoring applications that run on Windows hosts on VMware or HyperV virtualization, SolarWindows offers a nice, vertical view of both the loads and the resources. In such an environment, this makes life really good! But if you have something else -- for example, Linux hosts -- you're on your own to some extent. That is, the things it does well, it does very well -- but everything else is much less polished.
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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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    SolarWinds
    • Monitor Azure Cloud Severs- We use SolarWinds SAM to monitor Active Directory and DNS on Several DCs published on Azure Cloud.
    • Monitor Hyper V and VMware - SolarWinds SAM monitors applications on both Hyper V and VMware, while also monitoring the physical host machines.
    • It also helps us monitor Warranty expiration for physical servers.
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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
    • Provides basic monitoring/visibility. Visibility into detailed/fine-grained issues best suited for more specialized/expensive solutions.
    • Licensing per monitored application rapidly uses up purchased license count.
    • More out-of-the-box templates or easier setup of monitoring less-common applications would make the solution more appealing given the target audience of the product.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We are heavily invested in Solarwinds products for a reason. They are generally easy to setup and run with, requiring only some interfacing with support or help articles on rare occasions. They do what we bought them to do and we can't ask for more.
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    Usability
    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The tool works and monitors items 24x7, it only requires maintenance a little more frequently due to security fixes in the Windows operating system.
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    Performance
    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    The graphical interface and the performance of the database leave a little to be desired, they could be better explored.Some functionality and screens do not work well depending on the browser used. The integrations never had any problems or caused crashes in other systems.
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    We have never received any support from CA on this product
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    SolarWinds
    I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
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    Online Training
    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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    Implementation Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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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
    It has been a while since we first purchased SolarWinds, but I looked over several other products that I can't remember now. Many other products tried to scan the network to find computers but given that our computers are located in various places across campus with other computers in our buildings that are not ours that type of network scanning was not what we needed. Other services have extra services that we had no need of and I liked the ability to add custom fields in SolarWinds so we can track the information on each computer that we need to know.
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    Scalability
    Broadcom
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    SolarWinds
    It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
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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
    • Less time spent investigating causes of issues. We are alerted straight away and can find the root cause of the issue in less time.
    • We have been able to ditch all our previous individual monitoring solutions, none of which integrated with each other for a single solution which fully integrates with each of the different modules to provide a single portal for monitoring and alerting.
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