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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
174
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 (3rd), 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

"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
"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 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."
"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications, for some applications we've never been able to monitor before, some older legacy applications."
"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
"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."
"For us it is easy; it is friendly and it has information that is important for the business."
"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."
"Since using New Relic, time saved has improved by almost 50% due to the integration of Copilots and AI, and the ticket count reduction has surpassed 75%, allowing us to efficiently address similar issues."
"New Relic is great for DevOps and for a company that expects developers to do their own operations."
"New Relic shows how much time each SQL transaction (SQL query) is taking to execute, so the client can pinpoint the query and modify it so that it takes less time to execute."
"New Relic has been in the business for a while, it offers a wide selection to attach a monitoring mobile app, server, and cloud, and if you want to go with just one product, it fits all your needs."
"The most valuable feature is the transparency into how applications are running."
"It is a software solution as a service, so I don't have to manage it on-premise."
"Go with it. It is a good product. It gives us the visibility that we need in monitoring."
"Their technical support is pretty good and responsive. We have a real good relationship with them."
 

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."
"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
"The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"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 could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually."
"I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"I would say that the user interface is maybe a little bit overly complicated."
"Alerts tend to show how an entire cluster is performing, and not only that a given node is having an issue."
"More instruments with .NET and asynchronous calls, and New Relic says it’s on the way."
"The product's initial setup phase is not straightforward to manage if you have no experience with installations, making it an area that can be improved."
"It doesn't give us rich process tracing, which is the only complaint I have."
"Errors insights have room for improvement especially error analysis part which is somewhat less compared to similar tool Splunk."
"I would like the ability to set up certain dummy accounts and do the actual things that the customer is doing, without impacting the production environment."
"The customization of the start and end time is kind of cool."
 

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 detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment."
"The price of New Relic could improve. It is expensive."
"I think it's overpriced for the technical support that we get. We spent over 1,00,000 USD a year."
"Pricing is better with New Relic APM than Dynatrace."
"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."
"If I remember it correctly, the pricing was based on the core, and the monthly subscription used to cost us $1,500 or $2,000. We had pre-prod and production services. Costing was different for pre-prod and production. For pre-prod, it was 40% less than the production service cost. It was a combined package."
"The pricing and licensing are too high."
"It would be nice if we could buy it annually instead of monthly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

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 Enterprise78
 

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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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Sample Customers

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group
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