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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 speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"For us it is easy; it is friendly and it has information that is important for the business."
"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."
"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
"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."
"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
"Helped us pin point the exact piece causing the performance bottleneck by using the transaction trace view."
"I don’t see us being able to operate without New Relic."
"New Relic has positively impacted our organization by reducing errors, improving performance, and saving time."
"You don't have to go through a list of 500 servers."
"It visualizes metrics well and tracks our incoming requests, providing a lot of detail which is useful for troubleshooting."
"It is one of the things that helps DevOps work in our organization and has helped stop finger pointing."
"Please go ahead and try this and you won't regret having it."
"I find the error monitoring of IIS web applications to be extremely useful."
 

Cons

"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see heat-map tracking."
"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"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."
"I would like a feature where I can turn off alerting at a policy level. Thus, when a policy is inactive, I can shut down all of my alerts within the policy."
"New Relic can be improved, particularly by enhancing the UI, which is currently a bit off."
"Installation of plugins seem to be really difficult due to the documentation available."
"The pricing model. New Relic can be expensive for growing startups."
"One thing that we noticed was that historical information was only for a limited period, which was not helpful in certain scenarios. For example, if I want to size my system for an event for New Year or Christmas season based on the historical data, I won't be able to find the historical data. Currently, the data is limited to three months. It would be helpful if they can provide historical data for a longer duration so that we can plan our system accordingly."
"The logs in New Relic are not showing the full logs. When I go and check the logs, they are not complete."
"The pricing and licensing are too high."
"There are certain scenarios where I feel additional functionalities could enhance New Relic, such as gaining more data about calls."
 

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 recommend using the free version of New Relic. If you like the free version and understand its importance for your company, you can move to the trial. Then, you can migrate to the paid version."
"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."
"This is an expensive product."
"Cost is significant with a lot of extras."
"We feel it's a little bit pricey."
"We're paying for the New Relic APM license annually."
"The detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment."
"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
10%
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
 

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 needs improvement with New Relic Insights?
I find New Relic to be somewhat expensive. Our team shares logins, contrasting with other applications where individual team accounts are standard. Pricing is a primary concern since New Relic can ...
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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