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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs New Relic comparison

 

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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

AppPulse Suite [EOL]
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
New Relic
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
173
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (4th), Network Monitoring Software (9th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Mobile APM (3rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (5th), AIOps (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real-time alerts have reduced server outage impact and support fast incident response
In the dashboard, if they could show a little more metrics regarding the application and related things, that would be how New Relic could be improved. Currently, there are things showing from the server level and application level, but it can be improved. That is what I felt. Regarding user interface, I do not feel much concern, but for some kind of issues when we are trying to get support from the New Relic team, their SLA seems to be long. They are taking seven to ten working days for resolving some kind of scenario or issue. That is a bit difficult for us. If they could improve the customer support by reducing their SLA within three to five days, if they could remediate everything, that will be so much helpful. When it comes to the customer support part, I felt they need to be a little more improved on that part. The support overall is good, but they can improve. That is the reason I have given it eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This product has many valuable features, and it is very important for us to identify the response time, identify the different operating systems, the brand of the smart phones, and where customers are using them - not only in Mexico, but in different parts of the world."
"We provide software testing services to third-party organizations with HP AppPulse, where we can see the real user experience live and identify low UI performance, stability problems, or high resource consumption on one screen."
"The support that we get from HP is tremendous compared to other HP support – lots of good people that can give answers."
"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."
"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
"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."
"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."
"The ease of use, the information you can get out of it from the very little things you do – you get so much out of it."
"The most valuable feature is New Relic Insights, and our customers are happy with the dashboard and the data that it displays and the correlation between the components."
"The ability to do layered reporting quickly and in real-time on stats is the most valuable feature to us."
"New Relic gave us a quick, easy way to monitor our web application for all of our systems."
"Monitoring is a crucial thing for every work, and New Relic is doing a very good job in this part."
"New Relic APM is a very good, tailor-made solution."
"You don't have to go through a list of 500 servers."
"The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us."
 

Cons

"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"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."
"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"We are using AppPulse, but not as extensively as we expected, due to the limitations and the regulations that we have to meet."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
"The product has good documentation for Linux, however, their documentation for Windows is lacking substantially. It's something they need to develop."
"Doesn't recognized some third party transaction traces."
"About six months to a year ago, we invested a lot of time automating a lot of our interactions with New Relic. However, their API couldn't do a lot of things, and even getting a list of errors was impossible without scrubbing every application/server manually and checking health conditions yourself."
"The solution only supports the cloud platform and not on-premises."
"It is a serious tool and requires a lot of time invested in order to understand how it works."
"Another area for improvement is integration with Kubernetes. Currently, the process isn't user-friendly."
"We have some performance issues with the servers. Sometimes the server is consuming a lot of CPU or memory, and New Relic Insights fails."
"For some kind of issues when we are trying to get support from the New Relic team, their SLA seems to be long."
 

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 neither cheap nor expensive, and I believe that it is a competitively-priced tool."
"We're paying for the New Relic APM license annually."
"The price of New Relic APM could be less expensive. We are using the New Relic APM pro account and it is more costly. When compared to competitors the solution's pricing should be much more realistic."
"Cost is significant with a lot of extras."
"The solution is quite expensive. It costs around $5,000 a month. There aren't any additional costs above that."
"We feel it's a little bit pricey."
"The detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment."
"The pricing and licensing are too high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business65
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise77
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
What do you like most about New Relic Insights?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?
I have noticed discrepancies between New Relic's documentation and Terraform resources. For example, there have been instances where new features launched in the New Relic UI have not been updated ...
 

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
 

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