AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs Dynatrace comparison

Read 363 Dynatrace reviews

45,567 Views
30,986 Comparison Views

96% willing to recommend

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between AppPulse Suite [EOL] and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability.

To learn more, read our detailed Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Report (Updated: October 2026).

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Download the complete report

Helped 920,769 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dynatrace

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

363

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (7th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (1st), AI Observability (3rd)

Featured Reviews

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.

Read full review

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.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."

"We provide software testing services to third-party organizations with HP AppPulse, where we can see the real user experience live and identify low UI performance, stability problems, or high resource consumption on one screen."

"Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."

"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."

"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."

"The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."

"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."

"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."

More AppPulse Suite [EOL] pros

"With AppMon, looking at the translation flows and the PurePaths, we can with one or two members can identify and start to find where the problem is."

"Its AI can tell us when something is wrong, including the impacts and the root cause."

"It is nice to be able to deep dive and pull historical data."

"Dynatrace has far more comprehensive and useful details to help us to identify bottleneck issues and fix them."

"Real-time alerts and being able to trace issues down the call stack has helped us to react quickly to issues and reduced our debug time due to knowing where to start looking for the issue."

"Dynatrace has positively impacted my organization because reporting is ongoing and constantly evolving to adapt to the new technologies that are being introduced, such as AI and other standard protocols of reporting and metadata."

"What Dynatrace has really allowed our team to do is focus more on innovation, rather than on monitoring and bug-squashing."

"Support from Dynatrace is excellent. They are always on hand for any queries, demos, and/or issues."

More Dynatrace pros

Cons

"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."

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

"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."

"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."

"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."

"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."

"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."

"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."

More AppPulse Suite [EOL] cons

"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."

"They should make hooks into some of the more modern performance testing tools a little easier. I think that would go a long way."

"Cloud monitoring and reporting need improvement, as well as how to manipulate data and export it to share with business executives."

"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."

"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."

"I'd really like to see more dashboarding abilities. The ability to do workflows within dashboards, being able to start at a high level and click into it with custom dashboards. I think most of the time, we are creating our own custom dashboards, and I'd just like to see more ability with that."

"I'd like to see the UI a bit more polished."

"sometimes it happens that we are not able to capture things. For example, if a person is logged in from India, from the city of Mumbai, and is using a Chrome browser, and his email ID is xyz@abc.com. But what happens is, Dynatrace just fetches two pieces of the information, not all of it. Sometimes it gets it all, sometimes it doesn't."

More Dynatrace cons

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."

"We are buying more licenses, because we are seeing more value."

"This is an expensive solution, but it is also worth the money."

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

"We have a three-year contract. We have 30 licenses for the full stack and 3 licenses for the DEM unit."

"The product is definitely worth taking a look at. Be aware that it is probably more pricey than other options on the market, but there are a lot of capabilities. Dynatrace has an eye toward the future and the computing and monitoring needs that we are gonna need for the cloud. "

"The product is pricey, but it is feature-rich, which is why we probably haven't looked away from it."

"Do a PoC and see if you like it."

"We found a tool that can be utilized by testing, DevOps, marketing, software engineering, and monitoring. Before, we always had everybody doing their own thing. Now, everybody's utilizing one tool, which is huge. That is a huge savings."

More Dynatrace pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

920,769 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	81
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	303

Questions from the Community

Ask a question

Earn 20 points

Any advice about APM solutions?

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...

See all answers

What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

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...

See all answers

Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

See all answers

Comparisons

Splunk AppDynamics vs AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Compared 26% of the time

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Compared 17% of the time

Alluvio Aternity vs AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Compared 9% of the time

Stackify vs AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Compared 9% of the time

New Relic vs AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Compared 8% of the time

More AppPulse Suite [EOL] Competitors

Datadog vs Dynatrace

Compared 4% of the time

Splunk AppDynamics vs Dynatrace

Compared 4% of the time

New Relic vs Dynatrace

Compared 3% of the time

Avantra vs Dynatrace

Compared 3% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Dynatrace

Compared 3% of the time

More Dynatrace Competitors

Product Reports

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Download AppPulse Suite [EOL] product report

Download Dynatrace product report

Also Known As

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

No data available

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.

OpenText

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

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability