CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] vs Dynatrace comparison

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Broadcom and Dynatrace are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 20% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Dynatrace users who would recommend it.

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20% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

CA Application Delivery Ana...

Average Rating

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dynatrace

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

363

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (7th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (1st), AI Observability (3rd)

Featured Reviews

reviewer1237194

Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Good monitoring functionality, but technical support and integration with other products need to be improved

My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances. For CA Spectrum, the integration of this product is something that needs to be improved. Even some of their point products to not integrate very well, and ADA is one of them. The user interface needs to be improved. Technical support needs to be improved.

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Vinothkumar Sugumar

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Unified dashboards have provided end-to-end visibility and now streamline API latency troubleshooting

I think Dynatrace can be improved in dashboard creation, as this is the face of a product. Although Dynatrace may have many things, new users typically do not know the whole power of the product. To onboard new people, it would be beneficial to provide template dashboards or suggested dashboards. Organizations working with microservice architecture will follow some templates, so suggesting simple, hand-picked features that are really helpful could make a difference. Quick configurable and customizable templates would be very useful. Whenever they come into the product, they can use this template and feel that their product is applied to it. Immediately, they will think everything is online and can improve easily. This base can be provided in template form. Since Dynatrace has a lot of features now, the AI integration makes it simple, but the product itself is very huge. To understand and utilize it, maybe it would be good to index the essential features.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."

"The pricing is relatively low compared to other solutions in this area, and I'd go so far as to say it's even significantly less than the competition."

"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."

"Technical support is excellent."

"When we compared other APM tools, Dynatrace was the only one which could give us 100% visibility into the whole codebase, which is key for us because we can find the problem much faster."

"Dynatrace provides us with the ability to actually map out the whole ecosystem and our websites and services that exist within it, giving us that whole picture even though it's now a distributed network of products and things."

"We enabled UEM for all of our applications. This allows us to see exactly what the client is experiencing."

"We now know when the application is down, as opposed to students opening tickets and letting us know, so it's more proactive."

"The user experience allows us to be able to gauge customer experience and understand the performance impact of our platform."

"You can always get in touch with support representatives and the developers if you want to, and you can get the solution directly from them. They are good about giving customer service, which I really like."

"It is a product that helps developers, testers, and operations to make sure their applications work quickly and reliably."

"Dynatrace was the perfect fit."

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Cons

"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."

"Upgrades can be quite complex."

"The user interface needs improvement."

"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."

"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."

"Dynatrace stands out, but it is a bit complex to understand and implement on servers."

"On the one hand we have Dynatrace, on the other hand, we have AppMon. We know Dynatrace is more powerful, with a lot of functions, but there are some core functions AppMon has that Dynatrace needs. Our main use is AppMon and we have not gone to Dynatrace because we don't have those specific functions that we need."

"One significant complaint I have raised with Dynatrace as a consultant is the availability of raw data for logs. While this capability exists, it is quite costly."

"SSO options are missing."

"There are lots of features to share information, but we need to learn to leverage that, both on the web browser and on the mobile app."

"It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern."

"It needs more dashboards like AppMon."

"They expect the customer to do the basic analysis, do all the solutions, and find the solutions themselves. If it is really a product problem, only then will they be able to identify and spend time on the customer."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."

"It's understandable to do a smaller scale initial evaluation. However, as you identify the product value, don't hesitant in your scope and scale to maximize the initial investment and your opportunity to do a bulk investment of the product."

"We are buying more licenses, because we are seeing more value."

"The pricing is a little high, but still cheaper than competitors because Dynatrace at least has pay-as-you-go. Others do not. However, the pricing is confusing. I wish it was more simplified when trying to price out moving to a yearly contract."

"There is a license cost, which is obviously more expensive than an open-source solution, but for the return on investment from what you get from it, it's a great investment. Of course, it could always be cheaper."

"We purchased a subscription for one year and it is an expensive solution for a large enterprise like ours."

"They could improve their price ranges, as there is no option for startups or testing."

"From what I have heard in the company, Dynatrace is expensive."

"Dynatrace is very good and it's provided a lot of information, it plays a positive role in making your application up to date in the market. If you want to monitor some applications only, it would be cheaper if you did cloud monitoring, but the price benefit depends on the use case."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	81
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	303

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Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

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What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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Also Known As

CA ADA, Application Delivery Analysis, NetQoS SuperAgent

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Overview

CA Application Delivery Analysis provides end-to-end response time monitoring at multiple component levels, giving Network Administrators the ability to quickly identify performance bottlenecks and to identify root cause in minutes as opposed to hours or days, resulting in up to 80% improvement in IT productivity and reduced Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).

Broadcom

Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Dynatrace

Sample Customers

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TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money

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