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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs New Relic comparison

 

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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
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
175
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 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."
"Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."
"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
"The support that we get from HP is tremendous compared to other HP support – lots of good people that can give answers."
"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."
"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."
"It has the ability to monitor random URLs not tied to the one pinger per application (though it costs extra)."
"It allows the restriction of privileges and control of users."
"What the product has done for us was expedite our ability to discover actionable data that led directly to improvements in our app which would have taken considerable longer if we'd had to build similar functionality ourselves."
"Customer Service: The Support has been excellent -- affordable and bringing us meetings and phone calls with great availability and customer-oriented support."
"We detect issues using dashboards that we built on New Relic."
"New Relic has positively impacted my organization by helping with our observability goals."
"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."
"There are many valuable features in New Relic APM; we developed some software applications and we are able to monitor the errors very easily, and their log security retention is very good."
 

Cons

"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
"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."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"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."
"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
"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."
"Real-user monitoring would be helpful as it would help me to really understand the client-side performance of the application."
"Stack traces don’t go far enough. They get to a point, indicate a question mark, and then stop."
"There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
"If they added the monitoring to the ops-server side, it would be better."
"In the next release, I'd like to see a better pricing structure."
"The UX/UI design of New Relic APM could be improved. The solution currently has some slow pages in terms of loading and viewing the pages, for example, the reports. The reports and other pages take a long time to load."
"I chose a rating of 8 out of 10 because the UI requires me to dig in and find the needed traces, and it can be more user-friendly."
"New Relic is very slow, and the app is a bit frustrating to use, which is something that has been happening a lot in the past year. During the last six months, I have noticed that it has become extremely laggy."
 

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 solution required a license and it is better than some other competitors."
"Cost is significant with a lot of extras."
"Because of budget, we are not using the mobile app part of this tool."
"The pricing is okay comparatively their competitors. The only concern was whether it should be purchased on demand or bring your own license, and which way passes some savings onto the end customers."
"The solution is less expensive than AppNeta."
"The solution is priced reasonably. New Relic APM is one of the best products for me because it's economical, so anyone can easily pick it over other solutions and use it."
"This is an expensive tool."
"The pricing and licensing are good if you have an account manager and a partner manager who are looking to help out."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Construction Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
12%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing 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 Enterprise51
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?
Sometimes the UI feels like it is not that much user-friendly for any new user who is using New Relic. The user interface could be more user-friendly for someone who is new to New Relic. For alerti...
What is your primary use case for New Relic Insights?
We use Java microservices, so we capture the events with the help of New Relic. Based on that, we add the alerting part inside New Relic. We have enabled the New Relic Java agent inside our microse...
 

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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