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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs New Relic comparison

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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
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

"Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."
"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."
"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 FunDex is a valuable feature for our organization."
"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."
"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
"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."
"New Relic helps us to improve our team quality and to get our projects done with best practices."
"New Relic is highly scalable and its build quality is very easy for handling to startup, enterprise, scale up, and workloads."
"We have been able to proactively identify failures before they happen."
"The most important thing is that it tells us where the latency in throughput and response time are."
"The deep insights, which will give you the metrics (not a high level), so we can build out at the database level where the bottleneck is. This has been pretty helpful."
"It was able to really effectively find the problem and solve it – it sped up the pages considerably."
"The most valuable features are infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM)."
"It's given us the ability for anyone to know how our customers experience our application."
 

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."
"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
"I think the product was premature."
"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 one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
"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."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"Some AIOps are missing in New Relic APS, and I would like to see more features in this area."
"I wish it had more insight into what might be causing a particular slowness issue. It finds the function, but it would be great to have insight into what’s slow."
"The licensing cost is a little high and it should be brought down."
"It’s really powerful with a lot of features, but some training and documentation from New Relic would be useful."
"The solution could improve by having more network monitoring features, such as for all the infrastructure."
"I would like to see the company implement the AI auto-baseline feature which Dynatrace has."
"There has been some problem with the agent, and it is just not working well. It is not able to record information with the application server. They have been able to fix the issue, but it took quite a long time. This is the main issue in the APM products and also in New Relic. The mobile application monitoring has been pretty difficult to set up and also quite expensive. It should be a little bit easier and cheaper. Because it is pretty difficult and expensive, many customers don't take it."
"The main reason we switched away from New Relic is that the cost is too high."
 

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 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."
"The solution is cheap, but prices can go up when users grow."
"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."
"We spend somewhere around $5,000 to $6,000 per month with an annual recommitment of maybe $60,000. These are just ballpark figures."
"Comparatively, the pricing is expensive."
"The pricing and licensing are too high."
"The price of the solution could be less expensive. You have to pay a lot for each user. There is an additional cost for extra features."
"The price of New Relic could improve. It is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

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 Enterprise52
Large Enterprise79
 

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What is your primary use case for New Relic Insights?
As an Application Monitoring Engineer, my primary responsibilities include ensuring the uptime of services, managing infrastructure, and monitoring transactions. I use New Relic to set up incidents...
 

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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