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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs New Relic 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
New Relic
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
176
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 (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (3rd), 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

"The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
"Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."
"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 FunDex is a valuable feature for our organization."
"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 speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"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 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."
"Given we have only one infrastructure guy and he can manage all of this, and a small team, everyone can use it all for different purposes."
"It has in-depth analysis using developer code for someone whose not traditionally a developer."
"We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."
"They instrument up from the bottom to the top – every piece of code - they have a very perfect read of what’s being done, and how long it’s taking."
"It is a software solution as a service, so I don't have to manage it on-premise."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and tracing."
"The solution is an excellent product for time series and operation analyses."
"New Relic is easy to use even for someone with no knowledge; by seeing the dashboard, they can easily find out the application's health and notice what is happening."
 

Cons

"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"I think the product was premature."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"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."
"However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."
"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
"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."
"It could be faster, but they’re already working on making this."
"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."
"The browser isn't exactly reliable."
"While I appreciate many aspects of New Relic, I believe the product could improve in some areas—specifically, some advanced capabilities can have a learning curve for new users, and the licensing and consumption model can be difficult to predict, particularly in environments generating large volumes of telemetry data."
"Integration with Azure websites as well as Azure cloud services."
"The one thing I really wanted to see was to getting more granular with the data, which may be coming in Insights."
"There are certain scenarios where I feel additional functionalities could enhance New Relic, such as gaining more data about calls."
"The pricing and licensing are too high."
 

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."
"This is an expensive tool."
"We spend somewhere around $5,000 to $6,000 per month with an annual recommitment of maybe $60,000. These are just ballpark figures."
"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 price depends on how many agents you want."
"The detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment."
"The price of New Relic could improve. It is expensive."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy. The product is easy to deploy and manage, which is why our company purchased through the AWS Marketplace."
"The pricing model is a little confusing for beginners. They find it a little expensive, and if you are using it already, then that is not good."
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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
14%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

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 Enterprise52
Large Enterprise79
 

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What is your primary use case for New Relic Insights?
As an Application Monitoring Engineer, my primary responsibilities include ensuring the uptime of services, managing infrastructure, and monitoring transactions. I use New Relic to set up incidents...
 

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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