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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs Nastel AutoPilot [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 23, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (26th), Container Monitoring (7th)
Nastel AutoPilot [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

EG
Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS
Dashboards facilitate prompt alerts but discovery feature needs enhancement
I would recommend Broadcom DX Application Performance Management if a customer doesn't have any existing performance solution. However, ten years ago, the solution was better, and now there are many competitive options. My overall rating would be between six and seven. The product rating I would give is 6.5 out of 10.
it_user226614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Performance and Service Metrics at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
You can easily scale it for high message rates, but it's primarily a flow-monitoring tool rather than an APM.
Autopilot is a middleware-centric business transaction monitoring tool that includes a Complex Event Processor (CEP) for transaction data. Architecture AutoPilot Probes are lightweight performance measurement and monitoring tools for live applications that are executed at defined points within the…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team, and it saves lots of time for the APM team."
"It is great product with lots of features that help minimize the time taken to troubleshoot issues and root cause analysis to avoid loss of business."
"With the adoption of CA APM, we have accurate mapping, we're updated on what supports each business service and what, when, where an incident occurs and how it affects the business."
"MTTR has greatly improved, and teams are now better focused on the cause of application performance issues much earlier into any event."
"The most valuable features are the low overhead, the ability to monitor production on 24/7 principle, the ability to decrease time to discover the point of failure in the IT infrastructure or the application environment in a short period of time, reporting for analyzing the performance of the application for improving the code optimizing process."
"Technical support has been pretty good."
"Experience View provides a business-focused view that answers the key question as to what the customer experience is, with a minimal amount of work required."
"The triage can find the root cause for pent up issues."
"You can easily scale it for high message rates."
"Flexible environment"
"Nastel is a world-class company that has partnership amongst other positive qualities embedded into its cultural fiber."
"Very simple to use and is a very useful tool."
 

Cons

"It needs to work on the mobility and the digital aspects, as they are currently getting merged in today’s scenario."
"It might be specific to our company, but adoption by the application development community was not easy."
"Support could be much better."
"The upgrade was complex. The documentation could have been a little bit better, but other than that, it was okay.​"
"It should be easier to install or set everything up. ​"
"We aren't getting the value we imagined out of the product."
"I give it an eight out of 10 overall because I don't see custom dashboards. Plus, some of the stat analysis features that were explained are not that easy to use."
"The documentation on customizing instrumentation of methods and classes (derivative files) could be improved, as well as some of the documentation interfacing into other APM products (ADA, CEM, ABA)."
"Needs to quickly implement support for all variety of servers."
"Quality Assurance testing for new releases need to be more thorough"
"The GUI is quite basic and middleware-centric."
"Documentation"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is annual. The licensing model could improve because there is not any limit to deploying the agent, there should be some limits on it."
"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"The pricing structure should be based on memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents, as it makes the solution more expensive for us."
"Negotiate a lot, but do not forget to buy the product because it is worth it."
"Dynatrace is the most expensive of these tools followed by AppDynamics which is "medium-expensive." CA APM is a bit lower in price than either Dynatrace or AppDynanics... In my opinion, if you can afford it, go for AppDynamics instead of CA APM."
"All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
"I'm unable to give information on Broadcom DX Application Performance Management licensing costs, but all Application Performance Management products have expensive pricing. This means that it's not only Broadcom that's expensive, and it would be an advantage if the cost would be a little bit cheaper."
"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise124
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The initial pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions. The challenge arises during annual renewals, as the price increase can be significant, around twenty percent or more, ...
What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The first area for improvement is the discovery feature, which should be enhanced to collect comprehensive information from applications and services. This includes using agents or scripts to gathe...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
Our primary use case involves having a large dashboard with significant information for alerts, alarms, and metrics to summarize the state of critical businesses and applications. When an issue ari...
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Also Known As

DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
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Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
Banamex, Barclays Capital, Bank of Bermuda, California Commerce Bank, Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank, CGEY, Checkfree Corporation, CIBC, CitiCard, Citicorp, New York, Citigroup Inc., CME Group Inc., Credit Agricole Indosuez Luxembourg, Credit Suisse, CRIF, Deutsche Bundesbank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, DTCC, FannieMae, Fidelity (FMR), First Citizens Bank & Trust, Fortis Investments, GE Money Americas, GE Money Bank, HP, HP/WestLB Systems, HSBC, HSH Nordbank, IG Index, i-bp Banque, Populaire, Interpay Nederland B.V., IZB - Informatikzentrum Bayern GmbH & Co., JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., MGIC (Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation) NYSE, OMGEO, People's Bank (Ct), Peoples United Bank, Phoenix Informatica Bancaria S.p.A., PinkRoccade, Santander Bank, SKOFIN, Sociale Verzekeringsbank, Thomson Financial, UBS, UMB Financial Corporation
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