Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued vs. Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)

Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, has improved greatly compared to when it was DCRUM; however, it still needs a lot of improvement in end-to-end flow capture with regards to network monitoring. Its alerting and integration capabilities are very good and easy to use. But it still needs a lot of tweaking in usability.

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From my point of view, when we are working with a medium package project, this Micro Focus AppPulse Suite is very useful and effective at finding problems in our activities and codes and isolating them. But when we are working on large-size projects or backend performances, it works slowly to detect issues.

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• Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, is very useful to find the network packet flow across applications
• It shows the application behavior in terms of end-user performance
• It integrates very well with other Dynatrace components

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• Monitoring user web activities from the user's point of view.
• Gives status details as clear dashboard formats.

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• Its configuration requires a lot of technical and business knowledge to drive monitoring expectations to dashboards.
• DCRUM needs a robust monitoring architecture to store, analyze and visualize all collected data.
• DCRUM can't monitor the latest Microsoft Exchange versions.

• It's getting slow when we work with large projects.
• At first it's hard to find some features.

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Best of breed.

The only thing missing for a 10, would be if they texted or called you back.

Overall the support is good. Most of the hard situations passed smoothly because of the support team.

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Nagios can't trace real user transactions from a front-end tier through a backend-tier,;with Nagios you only can monitor server availability and hardware issues. Riverbed is commonly used to determine networking issues without considering real user transactions impact on an application stack.

• It has reduced the number of war rooms as well as the number of people involved to address issues.
• It helps in utilization trending for network capacity.
• It has prevented poor solutions from hitting production.
• When the various business units launch own initiatives such as third party tools or new platforms, it's become extremly easy to detect.
• The reports help in the field of continuous improvement as any changes are immediately discovered and can be compared to history. Deviations from what you have decided as a tolerance corridor can be used to trigger alarms, both positive and negative.

• With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
• Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.

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