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Categories and Ranking

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

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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 (6th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)

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it_user567780

Infrastructure Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Helps me be proactive in solving a customer's problem before it even happens

This is a new solution by HP. It's less than two years, we're among the first to implement the solution, so I'm sure that there is a lot of room for enhancement and continuous improvement in the future. They have added a new feature, which was not part of the solution, which is they support what they call hybrid apps; before, it was only supporting native. That is something they work with your R & D, whereby they support this feature in the parent version of AppPulse.

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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

Pros

"Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."

"We can collect data about the user experience and see how the user is behaving with the app, or check the behavior of the app itself."

"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."

"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."

"The benefits are the ease of integration into OMI, the speed of the deployment, and the quick ROI in value that it adds in a space where we were kind of flying blind before we had it."

"The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."

"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."

"The FunDex is a valuable feature for our organization."

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"We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class"

"Dynatrace provides deeper insights that let me pinpoint the issue and see the details, and no other solution was giving anything comparable."

"Dynatrace gives excellent insight into the performance of our applications, helping the IT department respond quickly to problems because the root cause is reported by Dynatrace."

"We have seen an average three-year return on investment of 451%, which is a huge number when it comes to the saving part."

"Dynatrace has significantly improved our organization by providing full-stack visibility and automated root cause analysis, helping us detect and resolve issues faster, reduce downtime, and improve user experience."

"In my experience, Dynatrace is scalable."

"It has helped us to deliver the numbers the moment it counts, and today every digital moment and every touch point is vital to your business Revenue, loyalty and brand image hinge on application performance and Dynatrace gives you the application insights you need to achieve digital success."

"This consolidation to one platform has affected my team's efficiency and collaboration by showing the biggest improvement in cross-team collaboration and visibility."

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Cons

"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."

"Currently, the information for management teams and technical teams are in the same view, but it would be useful if we could separate these views."

"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."

"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."

"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."

"I think the product was premature."

"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."

"In the next release, I would like to see heat-map tracking."

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"Financially, Dynatrace was a lot more expensive than AppDynamics."

"The web-based UI needs to be improved. The client seems to be heavy on laptops and desktops."

"I would love to see Dynatrace get more involved in the security realm."

"Message Bus monitoring: it is not possible to deep dive into the Tibco EMS bus."

"The installation process had quite a few moving parts, so it was a little tricky getting everything to work in first go."

"We were planning to use it to assess things from Jira, but after we installed Dynatrace, Jira was not working anymore because of the injections that were put in Jira — we could not integrate with Jira."

"It needs container log monitoring."

"The tool needs work on the performance monitoring part, as it is not providing specific details due to some issues in agent connectivity."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was a no-brainer from a cost perspective compared to the other tools that we buy as an IT organization."

"The product is definitely worth taking a look at. Be aware that it is probably more pricey than other options on the market, but there are a lot of capabilities. Dynatrace has an eye toward the future and the computing and monitoring needs that we are gonna need for the cloud. "

"Just go with Dynatrace. Just start with Dynatrace. Do not go into AppMon. Start with Dynatrace, because AppMon is going to give you so much extra stuff that 99% of your user base will not need it, including yourself."

"Consider volume because that is where you will get the most benefit. Doing a point solution is not cost-effective."

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

"Dynatrace is still kind of an expensive solution compared to others. But I recognize that they are ahead of the competition when we do a feature by feature comparison."

"While it is quite good in respect to its functionality, there are few area in regards to pricing that they can look at how to possibly change. I have heard it's costly."

"I think that the price is reasonable."

"If there are no corporate requirements to run Dynatrace Managed (operating it yourself), I would definitely go for the size option. For small and medium-sized companies, the size option is probably the cheapest one. You don't need to look into operating it. You don't need to run hardware. It is pay as you go."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

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Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

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Financial Services Firm

17%

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Healthcare Company

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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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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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Also Known As

Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse

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Overview

Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile is the first self-service SaaS solution that tracks the real user experience of your mobile apps constantly monitoring performance, stability and resource usage. The tool provides FunDex – a mobile app quality score that provides a top-level view of problems that negatively impact the user experience with recommendations to explore and fix the root cause of each issue.

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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.

Sample Customers

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group

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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