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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
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

"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 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."
"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."
"For us it is easy; it is friendly and it has information that is important for the business."
"The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
"Server uptime is its most valuable feature."
"It has a simple initial setup."
"The alerting is by far the most valuable feature, closely followed by the way the platform correlates incidents across applications and components."
"The ease of use, the information you can get out of it from the very little things you do – you get so much out of it."
"Sometimes, I monitor the user's time of response and use this information to improve the number of servers on the back-end. Or, I can use it to change my back log for front-end developers and improve their response times. It's very important in this case because I can improve the experience of the final user."
"Using New Relic speeds up troubleshooting and resolution, giving us a clearer picture of where issues are, thus saving time and effort."
"I advise that New Relic is the best APM tool available, providing everything you need to pinpoint root causes for performance bottlenecks and serving as an effective observability tool for production telemetry metrics."
"It helps me to identify root cause on the code level issues."
 

Cons

"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."
"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
"I think the product was premature."
"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 think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"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."
"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"I think that there have been some questionable product enhancements. Over a year ago, New Relic rolled out a new navigation that really disrupted our workflow."
"New Relic APM is a good tool, and it has a database of failures, but it could use a list of customer-specific failures. New Relic APM should be able to give my company advanced analytics through AI."
"The thing missing from these platforms is connectivity."
"It is very difficult to award the service level cycles at an endpoint level."
"Currently, we don't have a way to send alerts which is a real pain."
"I would like better alerting."
"There is a picture which goes to your browser and it monitors requests from other users. However, it's impossible to use now because the price is very high."
"Joining datasets. Currently, it’s only possible to pull data from a single event type."
 

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."
"The pricing and licensing are good if you have an account manager and a partner manager who are looking to help out."
"The price of New Relic APM could be less expensive. We are using the New Relic APM pro account and it is more costly. When compared to competitors the solution's pricing should be much more realistic."
"We spend somewhere around $5,000 to $6,000 per month with an annual recommitment of maybe $60,000. These are just ballpark figures."
"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 solution is quite expensive. It costs around $5,000 a month. There aren't any additional costs above that."
"The solution is cheap, but prices can go up when users grow."
"We feel it's a little bit pricey."
"Cost is significant with a lot of extras."
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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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