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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
173
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

"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"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."
"The benefits are the ease of integration into OMI, the speed of the deployment, and the quick ROI in value that it adds in a space where we were kind of flying blind before we had it."
"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
"It increased the customer satisfaction for the usage of my smart apps, and it reduces the number of crashes, proactively, so I know before the issue happens."
"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
"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."
"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."
"As a QA manager, it helps me to know exactly where to focus our attentions because we can pinpoint specifically where there may be issues -- where geographically, which browsers, which browser versions, and other very granular details."
"New Relic has helped us in terms of the optimizing our print and loading times."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic is its ease of use."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The service maps that it creates, the health maps that it creates, the insights that it provides, etc., are all quite useful."
"We detect issues using dashboards that we built on New Relic."
"The alerting is by far the most valuable feature, closely followed by the way the platform correlates incidents across applications and components."
"New Relic has positively impacted my organization by helping with our observability goals."
 

Cons

"It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually."
"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."
"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."
"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex."
"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
"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."
"It is complicated, especially in how you interpret the data that it provides."
"There may be issues with scalability with individual users sending events up to the cloud."
"The older view is much better than the new view that they have. We'd like to go back to that previous version."
"They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive."
"New Relic is priced on the higher side."
"The price needs improvement."
"The solution needs to have staging."
 

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 solution is cheap, but prices can go up when users grow."
"This is an expensive tool."
"The new licensing model is great, as we pay for what we use (in computational units). However, the pricing is expensive compared to other tools."
"The solution is quite expensive. It costs around $5,000 a month. There aren't any additional costs above that."
"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."
"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."
"We spend somewhere around $5,000 to $6,000 per month with an annual recommitment of maybe $60,000. These are just ballpark figures."
"New Relic is either free with low retention and minimal functionalities, or expensive with full options and retention."
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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
5%
 

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 Enterprise50
Large Enterprise77
 

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What do you like most about New Relic Insights?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?
I have noticed discrepancies between New Relic's documentation and Terraform resources. For example, there have been instances where new features launched in the New Relic UI have not been updated ...
 

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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