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AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Average Rating

8.4

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Dynatrace

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

359

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

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

"The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."

"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications, for some applications we've never been able to monitor before, some older legacy applications."

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

"It increased the customer satisfaction for the usage of my smart apps, and it reduces the number of crashes, proactively, so I know before the issue happens."

"For us it is easy; it is friendly and it has information that is important for the business."

"Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."

"We launched the Take It app in France last June, and we had 10,000 active users, five percent of our users experienced crashes, so we decided to add AppPulse Mobile to our app, and crashes dropped from five to 0.44 percent while during the same time period our users jumped to 120,000."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is the visibility; it creates visibility from when the user starts interacting with our application all the way back to our database calls and our network path, and the triaging is amazing."

"I have reduced our disruption time. With the automatic alerts, we prevent and better catch the root cause of problems."

"Through Dynatrace feedback, we were able to figure out bottlenecks, plan performance user stories, optimize execution time, and make numerous corrections."

"The web dashboards are quite useful, good looking, and easy to use."

"The initial setup was straightforward. The documentation and the university helped on Dynatrace."

"I would give Dynatrace's technical support a 100% rating. I feel like whenever I call or send an email that I get the right person automatically. For the most difficult answers, the most I have to wait is about three days and the answers have been relevant."

"We're able to tell them which calls, which methods, which interface were the problem."

"We use Dynatrace for performance testing. We use it to dig down for application layer or slowness issues, getting a clear idea of what is causing the issues, then reporting back to the engineering team."

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Cons

"We are using AppPulse, but not as extensively as we expected, due to the limitations and the regulations that we have to meet."

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

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

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

"I think the product was premature."

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

"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."

"I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex. It could split up the users into categories based on how frequently they use my product."

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"Experience with relationship/account manager has been really poor, it does not seem to be the firm's priority to support their customers."

"They could facilitate the installation of the agent on server applications for other languages, such as C++."

"We should be able to easily simplify both the charting and slicing-and-dicing of user metrics with cookies that contain customer/user information."

"This solution needs better support for security and monolithic batch processes."

"If you have many distributed servers, you will need to install or migrate every agent. This can be a problem if you have too many, and it takes time."

"I would like to have more visibility into Python processes."

"Tech support is slow. Going from the dev department back to the front-end customer service, then back to the dev."

"The thing that is preventing us from moving forward with Dynatrace right now is that we can't tag our customer traffic with a customizable tag."

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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."

"Pricing is based on the number of servers monitored, so for big applications, it is a bit expensive."

"The limitations I see are more to do - and maybe it's because of the nature of the job I have - but they have to do with pricing. It's a little bit pricey. It's a very good tool. It's worth the price, to a certain degree. But it's hard to justify when it's that costly."

"I think that the price is reasonable."

"There are additional Professional Services costs which ensure the solution is configured with meaningful names so you're getting the most money for your investment."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was a pretty straightforward process. We had no hiccups."

"It is quite costly. Dynatrace was the most expensive, compared to the other products we looked at. But it was also a lot better. If you want value for your money, Dynatrace is the way to go."

"It's expensive."

"Setup cost is very low considering that it is an almost totally, automatic process."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

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Computer Software Company

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Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

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Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	299

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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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