AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs OpenText Diagnostics comparison

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AppPulse Suite [EOL] and OpenText Diagnostics are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 94% of AppPulse Suite [EOL] users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of OpenText Diagnostics users who would recommend it.

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

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94% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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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

OpenText Diagnostics

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (65th)

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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Ravi Suvvari

Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

Very good for transaction level monitoring, but expensive and HP needs better support and training

HP Diagnostics is a very good monitoring tool especially for transaction level monitoring -- it shows hot spots which can be drilled down to DB level, table, query, SP's, record and field level and also at Object level, Classes level,method or Augment levels instead of pinpointing bottlenecks at layer level it goes deep inside for information. It has very good tracing capabilities despite being an agent based tool compared to other agent less monitoring tools. Overall a very good tool for monitoring application diagnostics for quick and easy resolution with help of thread information. Drills down from slow, end-user transactions to the bottle necked component, method, or SQL statement, helping to solve memory, exception, and other common problems Key features and benefits • Automatically detects all components touched by a business process and traces them with no user intervention • Provides complete application visibility across the application lifecycle, enabling higher application quality when applications go live • Reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR) in your J2EE, .NET, ERP, or CRM (SAP, Oracle®, PeopleSoft) environment • Integrates fully with HP Business Availability Center software, HP LoadRunner, and HP Performance Center.

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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

"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."

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

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

"What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Diagnostics is the information reported from an application that has timed out. For example, when you're Googling, or you're booking a ticket for Burj Khalifa here, the longest tower in the world, there are situations where the system can time out. There are times when you might not receive a response on the payment gateway or you are not able to find the reservation. The customer only receives the information that the session has timed out."

"The information from the diagnostics is detailed."

"HP Diagnostics is a very good monitoring tool especially for transaction level monitoring -- it shows hot spots which can be drilled down to DB level, table, query, SP's, record and field level and also at Object level, Classes level, method or Augment levels instead of pinpointing bottlenecks at layer level it goes deep inside for information."

"The diagnostics and configuration are the solution's most valuable aspects."

"For banking and telecom solutions, it's been quite useful."

Cons

"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."

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

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

"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."

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

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

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"Price is little expensive for number of license points and HP Diagnostics trainers are not available in market and no proper support from HP for any diagnotics level queries or issues."

"The interface is very old, and not very user-friendly. Most of our clients don't like the UI."

"The interface could be more user friendly."

"The GUI and metrics of Micro Focus Diagnostics can be improved. The metrics the solution gathers can be limited and could be enhanced by giving more details."

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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

15%

Performing Arts

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

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Compared 16% of the time

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Also Known As

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

Micro Focus Diagnostics, MF Diagnostics

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.

OpenText

OpenText Diagnostics offers detailed transaction-level monitoring, providing insights at database, object, and method levels. It aims to improve application visibility and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) while integrating smoothly with HP's software suite.

OpenText Diagnostics automatically detects components, allows for flexible configuration, and provides detailed diagnostic information of application timeouts. It is particularly useful in identifying root causes like database or network issues. However, there are challenges with its interface, high pricing, lack of trainers, and insufficient cloud-based environment support. It is widely used in finance and government sectors for examining application code.

What are the most important features?

Transaction-Level Monitoring: Provides deep insights at DB, object, and method levels.
Automatic Component Detection: Enhances application visibility by detecting components automatically.
Integration with HP Software: Fully integrates with HP's software for a seamless experience.
Performance Configuration: Allows adjustments for better performance.

What benefits should users look for?

Reduced MTTR: Quick identification and resolution of issues.
Detailed Diagnostics: Offers insights into timeouts and root causes.
Efficient Issue Identification: Valuable for pinpointing and understanding session timeouts.

In finance and government sectors, OpenText Diagnostics is used to efficiently view application data and code inspection. Organizations transitioning to cloud platforms like AWS for improved data management often use it alongside tools like Micro Focus BPM to enhance functionality across environments including SAP, Java, and MQ.

OpenText

Sample Customers

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group

BSkyB, Alior Bank

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