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Categories and Ranking

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

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Dynatrace

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

359

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (6th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)

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it_user567780

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.

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"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."

"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."

"What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."

"Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."

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"Being able to identify the blind spots. Before, we had lots of monitoring, but it was all very manual. You only monitor what you know about. As soon as we put Dynatrace in, it sprung to life, and we identified problems instantly."

"The Recorder for setting up a synthetic monitor is a really great tool for non-technical staff to be able to set up a monitor."

"When Dynatrace shows us an entire lifecycle, I can go back to my document and see A points to B, then B points to C, and so on, and see how the product is dynamically showing the AI behaving in a single place, like on a single webpage, which helps us to see the troubleshooting points or what is hiccuping."

"We can analyse problems more quickly, and detecting problems becomes easier with Dynatrace."

"Smartscape display for ease of visibility, pinpointing a exact problem, and providing necessary details for fixing and even improving on."

"It is much easier to deploy, maintain, and delivery of high value insights, which almost immediately lowers the mean time to value and resolution of issues."

"We are able to prevent the major downtimes by proactive monitoring alerts."

"We know exactly which line, which method, and which program needs fixing, so we directly go to the right developer and the guy comes in fixes it."

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Cons

"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."

"We are using AppPulse, but not as extensively as we expected, due to the limitations and the regulations that we have to meet."

"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."

"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."

"However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."

"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 would like to see more reporting and analytics."

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"I would love to see Dynatrace get more involved in the security realm. I get badgered by so many endpoint protection companies. It seems like a natural fit to me, that Dynatrace should be playing in that space."

"Data streaming and dashboard loading can be improved to reduce dashboard latency."

"The flexibility when it comes to integrating with other tools is very low."

"Cloud monitoring is insufficient."

"It's not really user friendly. You need to go through a certain type of training."

"We found it was quite challenging in terms of the learning curve."

"Ability to better identify SDQ script errors would be helpful."

"Surprisingly, it is quite expensive."

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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 product is really fast to implement and gives customers instant value. This is important, because it reduces costs on the implementation."

"The licensing model is confusing in solutioning clients for the number of hosts needed to deploy."

"Look at the product and the product features, not the price. Too often people look at the price and turn away. Dynatrace costs a little bit more than the other products I researched, but it can do far more."

"You get a really well-planned out monitoring suite for the money spent."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace is excellent."

"Pricing can be high, especially for Portuguese standards. But as one says, you get what you pay for."

"Make sure your leadership buy-in is in place. Ensure leadership understands that an APM solution is a fairly expensive, so they know what they are getting into."

"Dynatrace is bit costly and not easily affordable."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

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Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	299

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The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

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While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

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Also Known As

Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse

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Overview

Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile is the first self-service SaaS solution that tracks the real user experience of your mobile apps constantly monitoring performance, stability and resource usage. The tool provides FunDex – a mobile app quality score that provides a top-level view of problems that negatively impact the user experience with recommendations to explore and fix the root cause of each issue.

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Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Sample Customers

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group

TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money

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