AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs New Relic comparison

OpenText and New Relic are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 94% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of New Relic users who would recommend it.

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

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Categories and Ranking

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

New Relic

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

163

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (4th), Network Monitoring Software (8th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (8th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Mobile APM (3rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (5th), AIOps (4th)

Featured Reviews

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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ArjunSharma

Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Continuous monitoring has improved incident response and supports data driven performance tuning

For our end-to-end use case, New Relic is completely satisfactory, and we extensively rely on its features for our day-to-day life. I would like to have more AI and ML-based suggestions and algorithms from New Relic, and while the New Relic dashboards and UI are customizable, they can sometimes lead to a clumsy behavior. A smart AI assistance to organize our dashboards and explain features and functionalities can be a wish-to-have feature to help us leverage what New Relic offers. As I mentioned earlier regarding wish-to-have features, New Relic can improve by incorporating more AI insights. When there is a component or UI customization, having a smart AI agent to guide users on customizing New Relic would significantly ease the process. This helps users who possess a technology-specific skill set and might find a learning curve overwhelming when using complex applications like New Relic or other performance-related tools.

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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

"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications."

"It provides a lot of customer insight, understanding the customer's needs, understanding the customer's issues, and it gives me a more proactive approach to solving a customer problem before it happens."

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

"With Google Analytics, you choose what performance metrics you want to have reported, but with AppPulse Mobile, you have a global vision of what is really happening inside your app."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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"The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is the dashboard, New Relic Insights. I configured my own dashboard to monitor certain parameters."

"We were able to save $1,000 per month."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to receive in-depth information about applications. It can detect a lot of important information."

"We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."

"We detect issues using dashboards that we built on New Relic."

"The best features in New Relic include its numerous API integrations and a good source of support."

"It has prevented failures from occurring in our production environment."

"The tool's most valuable features were APM and core reliability. We get alerts whenever an anomaly is detected. The solution is very friendly."

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Cons

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

"The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."

"It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually. Unfortunately, the reporter is not that practical."

"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."

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

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

"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."

"One thing I'd like to see in any APM, especially New Relic, is the ability to use distributed transactions. When one microservice calls another, it calls another database and microservice. The entire data visualization layer will not be able to correlate from one microservice from end to end and return on that path. Distributed transactions would be a great addition that would make life simpler. Unfortunately, no APM has that end-to-end capability."

"I would like a feature where I can turn off alerting at a policy level. Thus, when a policy is inactive, I can shut down all of my alerts within the policy."

"The solution only supports the cloud platform and not on-premises."

"It would help customers if there were an on-premises version available."

"The initial setup can be made easier. Like Mixpanel, New Relic can also have a step-by-step guide for the setup process."

"They don't have an opportunity to share the dashboard with the public. If you want to share it with stakeholders or people outside the organization who just want to have a look at a couple of metrics, you can't do that without onboarding them to the product itself."

"The monitoring is only as good as the alerts that it produces. By having it set up fine grain alerting, it is a bit of a pain."

"New Relic is priced on the higher side."

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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 monthly cost os $1000 per server per month, but it could be even more. We pay about $250 for the server, and then New Relic wants over $1000 to give us statistics on those servers."

"The solution is quite expensive. It costs around $5,000 a month. There aren't any additional costs above that."

"The pricing is fine."

"We're paying for the New Relic APM license annually."

"The detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment."

"The solution is cheap, but prices can go up when users grow."

"This is an expensive product."

"Because of budget, we are not using the mobile app part of this tool."

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	65

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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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What do you like most about New Relic Insights?

The product's initial setup phase was very easy.

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What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?

New Relic is priced on the higher side. Because of the pricing model, organizations have experienced uncontrolled costs and were not able to afford New Relic, which resulted in moving to open-sourc...

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Also Known As

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

New Relic Browser, New Relic Applied Intelligence, New Relic Insights, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Servers, New Relic APM

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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New Relic offers real-time application monitoring and insight into performance bottlenecks. Its customizable dashboards and APM integration provide efficient operational support, while server performance alerts ensure quick issue detection.

New Relic provides comprehensive monitoring of application performance, tracking bottlenecks across databases and front-end components. Users employ it for server and infrastructure monitoring, as well as analyzing key metrics such as CPU and memory usage. The solution's ability to integrate with tools like PagerDuty enhances incident management capabilities. However, users have expressed a need for improvements in query language simplicity, more detailed historical insights, and better mobile app monitoring support.

What are New Relic's most important features?

Real-Time Monitoring: Provides instant visibility into application performance.
Detailed Transaction Tracing: Identifies specific transaction issues quickly.
Error Rate Tracking: Monitors and reports on error occurrences efficiently.
Customizable Dashboards: Tailors dashboard views for specific needs.
APM Integration: Seamlessly integrates with application performance management tools.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Operational Efficiency: Quick issue detection reduces downtime.
Improved Debugging: Enhanced error analysis supports rapid problem resolution.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Offers a holistic view of application performance and user behavior.
Incident Management: Integration with incident tools helps streamline responses.
Efficient Alerts: Rapid alert systems ensure timely notifications of issues.

In industries like e-commerce and financial services, New Relic supports application performance monitoring to enhance user experience and system reliability. Organizations leverage its insights for optimizing performance, particularly in server operations and infrastructure management. Its ability to monitor API failures through synthetic monitoring is crucial for maintaining high service levels.

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Sample Customers

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group

World Fuel Services, Verizon, FootLocker, McDonald's, Trainline, Mondia Media, Confused, Costa Coffee, Ryanair, Marks & Spencer, William Hill, Delivery Hero, Skyscanner, BASF, DAZN, Veygo, Virtuo, movingimage, talabat, Australia Post, Tokopedia, Seven Network, Virgin Australia, Zomato, BigBasket, Mercado Libre, Lending Club

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