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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

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    Categories and Ranking

    AppPulse Suite [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.4
    Number of Reviews
    15
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
    VMware Aria Operations for ...
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    6.3
    Number of Reviews
    14
    Ranking in other categories
    Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (18th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (14th), Container Monitoring (6th), Cloud Monitoring Software (13th)
     

    Featured Reviews

    it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
    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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    Ajay Shukla
    Consultant at HCLTech
    Automation and insightful diagnostics elevate operations while improvements are welcome
    The new version 8.18 has brought significant improvements. The main purpose of using this tool is having a single console to manage all entities. The cloud integration capabilities, including private, public, and hybrid, are already well-implemented. The ability to manage multiple vCenters across different geographical locations is very effective. The new Skyline health feature and certificate and licensing management are particularly useful improvements. The dashboard's overview tab provides comprehensive information about current vCenter status, resizable amounts, reclamation opportunities, anomalies, diagnostics, licensing, and certificates. However, there is room for improvement in application analysis. The current functionality lacks detailed monitoring at the kernel level, focusing mainly on CPU, memory, and storage matrices. Enhanced application monitoring capabilities, including tracking downtime for specific types of applications such as transactional or e-commerce applications, would be beneficial.
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    We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
     

    Pros

    "Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."
    "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 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."
    "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."
    "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."
    "It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
    "It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
    "What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."
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    "This solution will give you a single pane of glass for everything, and centralized monitoring."
    "The solution provides single-console management for multiple VMware environments and cloud integrations, whether hybrid, private, or public cloud."
    "This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
    "It has a familiar interface, which makes it easy to get started."
    "Scalability for VMware Aria Operations for Applications is easy to implement and manage."
    "People are very pleased with the implementation."
    "The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
    "I find VMware Aria Operations for Applications to be very stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten."
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    Cons

    "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."
    "It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
    "The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
    "I think the product was premature."
    "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."
    "The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
    "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."
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    "The return on investment is best suited for organizations that do not have the resources for a dedicated VM environment team. However, the cost of the product doesn't show significant benefits."
    "The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
    "The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
    "VMware technical support has declined since the Broadcom acquisition. Previously, they were more focused on issue resolution, but now they prioritize licensing verification before providing support."
    "So far, the solution's learning curve has been pretty high."
    "The solution could be expensive, which might be a limiting factor."
    "I find that there could be improvements in the support service response time, as the urgency varies unless specified as Priority 2 or 1 cases."
    "I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
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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."
    "I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."
    "The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."
    "Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."
    "I would rate the pricing as three out of five."
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Construction Company
    21%
    Financial Services Firm
    19%
    Manufacturing Company
    13%
    Marketing Services Firm
    10%
    Financial Services Firm
    12%
    Manufacturing Company
    11%
    Construction Company
    7%
    Comms Service Provider
    6%
     

    Company Size

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    Large Enterprise
    Midsize Enterprise
    Small Business
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business7
    Midsize Enterprise3
    Large Enterprise6
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business4
    Midsize Enterprise1
    Large Enterprise10
     

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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
    The solution includes cost drivers that can be configured according to your environment. You can input server-wise, CPU-wise, storage, and memory costs per hour or day. Once cost drivers are provid...
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    What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
    The new version 8.18 has brought significant improvements. The main purpose of using this tool is having a single console to manage all entities. The cloud integration capabilities, including priva...
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    What is your primary use case for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
    I have been involved in several projects where I had to implement automation and monitoring alerting. I performed automation using VMware Aria Operations for Applications. There is an automation ta...
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    Also Known As

    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse
    Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability
     

    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

    VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time. 

    With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

    Broadcom
     

    Sample Customers

    SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group
    1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware
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