AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

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OpenText and Quest Software 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 86% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Read 15 AppPulse Suite [EOL] reviews

94% willing to recommend

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

Read 22 Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] reviews

86% willing to recommend

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

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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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Anton Kasimov

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Drill-down monitoring shows us the entire transaction chain, from the front end to back end. It needs HTML5 interface.

I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace. If you try to compare SaaS and on-premise Foglight versions you can see differences in UI-design. It's my subjective experiences, but SaaS version looks more modern. Hope this helps

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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

"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."

"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 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."

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

"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 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."

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

"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."

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"Over all in my organization, this product helped us to maintain health, risk and efficiency of the virtual infrastructure."

"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."

"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."

"Excellent monitoring capability and business service views"

"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."

"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."

"Foglight Enterprise was the most scalable and easy to deploy tool."

"We are able to capture the real time user experience of our solutions and we have an understanding of overall performance."

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Cons

"However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."

"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 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."

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

"There are some things I look forward to – alerts, service level management calculations, API so I can get the data from somewhere else rather than just the website, customizable time frame so I can adjust the date and time."

"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."

"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."

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"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."

"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."

"I recall that the lay-out was rather dull when I used this particular version of Foglight."

"South African skill is scarce"

"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features."

"We had issues with deployment in the beginning until we had an expert guide us through the process."

"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."

"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."

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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."

"Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."

"Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."

"The price is expensive for us."

"I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Outsourcing Company

17%

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	13

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Also Known As

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

Foglight, Dell Foglight

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

Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.

Quest Software

Sample Customers

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group

Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com

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