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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs New Relic comparison

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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 (2nd), AIOps (5th)
 

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

"What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."
"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."
"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 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."
"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
"For us it is easy; it is friendly and it has information that is important for the business."
"The support that we get from HP is tremendous compared to other HP support – lots of good people that can give answers."
"I believe that New Relic meets 90% of cases, so if you have low budget and little time to implement, this would be the best choice."
"They instrument up from the bottom to the top – every piece of code - they have a very perfect read of what’s being done, and how long it’s taking."
"New Relic APM is a very good, tailor-made solution."
"Its most valuable feature is application performance monitoring, as it gives me a complete x-ray of the application to understand where the bottlenecks are, then improve and fix issues."
"I can have my developers find bugs and fix them in one-tenth of time they used to take."
"From operationally rich, to developer deep."
"Working with the solution is very easy; it's user-friendly and overall it's a good product from what we have evaluated."
"It’s the flashlight to the core of an issue in a production environment that everyone may have missed in development, QA, and implementation."
 

Cons

"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."
"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."
"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
"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."
"We are using AppPulse, but not as extensively as we expected, due to the limitations and the regulations that we have to meet."
"All the information is there, but sometimes it’s hard to figure out what it means."
"The docs in API and dashboards seem to be a little behind and overly verbose, I don’t want to have to jump back and forth."
"There are times when you restart the engines and the servers have a unique ID for the host and you need to remove the server. It is difficult because some are on-premise and others are production hosts. Having downtime is not very good when updating. However, it is not a constant issue."
"One thing I'd like to see in any APM, especially New Relic, is the ability to use distributed transactions. When one microservice calls another, it calls another database and microservice. The entire data visualization layer will not be able to correlate from one microservice from end to end and return on that path. Distributed transactions would be a great addition that would make life simpler. Unfortunately, no APM has that end-to-end capability."
"There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
"The thing missing from these platforms is connectivity."
"I find New Relic to be somewhat expensive."
"If they added the monitoring to the ops-server side, it would be better."
 

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 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."
"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. The feature is very nice, but I tried it during the trial period, and the current price makes it impossible to use."
"We deploy everything on AWS. Purchasing the product on AWS Marketplace made it easier for us."
"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."
"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 price was one of the reasons we chose this solution."
"The pricing is fine."
"The detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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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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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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