Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

“Measure, monitor, and assure digital experience across web, mobile, and APIs.”

What it covers ?

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

• Web RUM: capture Core Web Vitals, page load times, navigation errors, and JavaScript exceptions.
• Mobile RUM: monitor app start times, crashes, ANRs, and network calls on iOS & Android.
• Correlation: link frontend sessions to backend traces for end-to-end troubleshooting.

Synthetic Monitoring

• Uptime checks: validate availability of single URLs from global vantage points.
• Multi-step transactions: emulate user journeys such as login, search, or checkout.
• API tests: measure response times, validate SLAs, and detect dependency failures.
• CI/CD integration: run synthetic tests in pipelines to prevent regressions before release.

Benefits

• Detect issues before they impact customers.
• Correlate front-end experience with backend performance.
• Validate and enforce SLAs/SLOs with proactive monitoring.
• Benchmark web and mobile app performance across geographies and competitors.

Why it matters ?

Splunk combines RUM, Synthetics, APM, and Infrastructure Monitoring in one platform, providing both outside-in (user perspective) and inside-out (system perspective) coverage of digital experience.

OpenTelemetry-native

• Based on industry open standards with a supported OTel Collector and SDKs.
• Standardizes collection of metrics, traces, and logs.
• Ensures portability and avoids vendor lock-in.

Data Control & Cost Management

• NoSample™ tracing: capture 100% of traces while retaining critical fidelity.
• Data shaping: aggregate, filter, and downsample telemetry at the collector.
• Routing flexibility: send data to Splunk, S3, Kafka, or third-party tools.
• Cost governance dashboards: monitor ingest volume and retention for cost optimization.

Benefits

• Preserve high-value traces (e.g. checkout, payments, APIs) while optimizing less critical data.
• Scale observability without runaway costs.
• Align data strategy with both engineering requirements and financial constraints.
• Maintain flexibility to adapt as infrastructure evolves.

Why it matters

Splunk empowers enterprises with open instrumentation and cost governance to achieve observability at scale without compromising fidelity or flexibility.

“Optimize application performance and user experience with AI-driven insights.”

What is DX APM?

Broadcom DX APM is an Application Performance Management platform designed to provide deep visibility into application behavior, performance, and user experience across complex hybrid environments.

By combining end-to-end transaction tracing, real-user monitoring (RUM), and AI-powered analytics, DX APM helps IT and DevOps teams rapidly identify issues, optimize application performance, and ensure that digital services meet business expectations.

DX APM is part of Broadcom’s AIOps & Observability portfolio, making it a natural complement to DX NetOps and AppNeta for complete digital performance assurance.

Key Features

• End-to-End Application Monitoring – Track application transactions across microservices, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Real-User Monitoring (RUM) – Measure how actual users experience applications, including response time, errors, and availability.
• Synthetic Monitoring – Proactively test applications to detect degradations before users are impacted.
• Transaction Tracing – Follow every transaction across distributed architectures for fast root-cause analysis.
• AI-Driven Insights – Leverage machine learning for anomaly detection, correlation, and performance prediction.
• Cloud-Native Support – Monitor Kubernetes, containers, and microservices in multi-cloud environments.
• Integration with AIOps – Correlate application data with infrastructure, network, and business KPIs for holistic observability.
• Scalability & Security – Designed for large enterprises with strict compliance and performance needs.

Benefits for the Client

• Faster troubleshooting: reduce MTTR by pinpointing issues across applications, networks, and infrastructure.
• Proactive assurance: detect and fix degradations before they impact users.
• Better user experience: ensure that digital services are fast, reliable, and available.
• Support for modern architectures: manage cloud-native, microservices, and hybrid environments with confidence.
• Business alignment: link IT performance to business outcomes and customer satisfaction.
• Future-ready observability: integrate seamlessly into AIOps workflows for continuous improvement.

Why DX APM is Different ?

• Unified Observability – Combines metrics, traces, logs, and user data into actionable insights.
• AI-Powered Analytics – Reduce noise, detect anomalies, and predict performance issues.
• Full-Stack Coverage – From user interactions to backend systems, across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Developer & Ops Friendly – Provide DevOps, SRE, and IT Ops teams with the tools to collaborate effectively.
• Proven Scalability – Trusted by large enterprises in highly regulated sectors.

Complementarity within Broadcom’s Portfolio

DX APM is part of Broadcom’s end-to-end observability suite:

• Paired with DX NetOps, it connects infrastructure and network performance with application outcomes.
• Combined with AppNeta, it extends visibility into SaaS and Internet paths for a true digital experience perspective.
• Integrated into AIOps platforms, it enables intelligent correlation and automation across IT ecosystems.

 Benefits at a Glance

• Optimize costs by reducing downtime and troubleshooting efforts,
• Accelerate digital innovation through proactive validation,
• Improve reliability of applications in production,
• Strengthen user satisfaction and trust.

“Optimize hybrid and on-prem application performance with full-stack observability linked to business performance.”

Splunk AppDynamics is a full-stack observability and application performance management solution that links application performance to business outcomes. It enables organizations to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of hybrid (cloud and on-premises) applications, as well as understand how application behavior impacts key business metrics.

It provides real-time visibility into code, infrastructure, user experience, and business transactions to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues before they affect end users.

Key Features

Some of the standout features of Splunk AppDynamics include:

• Business performance analytics: Correlate application, transaction, and end-user data with business metrics (revenue, conversions, etc.).
• Anomaly detection & root cause analysis: Use AI/ML to baseline “normal” behavior, detect deviations, and pinpoint root causes.
• AI / LLM application monitoring: Monitor compliance, cost, and performance of generative AI / LLM workloads.
• Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Track how users interact with applications (web, mobile, API), across devices, browsers, and third-party services.
• Network performance correlation: Identify how ISP, APIs, third-party services, and networking affect user experience and app performance.

Benefits for the Client

• Prevent performance degradation and outages — Detect issues early in the stack (code, network, infrastructure) before they impact users.
• Align IT metrics with business outcomes — Understand which performance issues matter most in terms of revenue, conversions, and business KPIs.
• Improve operational efficiency — Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and the toil of firefighting across silos (dev, ops, infra).
• Secure applications in real time — Detect runtime vulnerabilities and attacks, and respond before they impact business.
• Cost control & resource optimization — Detect inefficient patterns, anomalies, or scaling issues to avoid overprovisioning or waste.

Why Splunk AppDynamics is Different ?

• Unified observability + security — Application monitoring and runtime security are integrated, so you can monitor and protect in a unified way.
• Hybrid & on-prem support — Many observability tools are cloud-native only; AppDynamics is designed for hybrid and on-premises use.
• Flexible instrumentation — Supports both agent-based and OpenTelemetry data collection, giving customers flexibility.
• Business transaction focus — Unlike many tools that monitor low-level metrics, AppDynamics emphasizes key business transactions (login, checkout, etc.).

Typical Use Cases

• Consumer web & mobile applications — Ensure fast, reliable experience across devices and networks.
• Financial services / fintech — Monitor critical transactions like payments, trades, or mobile banking flows.
• SaaS / platform providers — Provide SLAs, detect performance regressions, and maintain uptime.
• AI / Gen AI / ML applications — Monitor models, cost, performance, and compliance aspects of AI/LLM apps.

Services & Support (What We Offer)

• Implementation / onboarding services — Expert help to instrument, configure dashboards, and integrate with your stack.
• Consulting & best practices — Assess your architecture, observability gap analysis, and guidance for observability maturity.
• Continuous optimization — Reviews and tuning to ensure the solution scales, remains performant, and stays aligned to business needs.