Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued) vs. SolarWinds AppOptics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
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The Micro Focus AppPulse Suite was an integrated solution of synthetic, real-user, and diagnostic monitoring for UX, that included Micro Focus AppPulse Active synthetic monitoring for SLA, Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile for real user mobile experience, Micro Focus AppPulse Web for web app availability monitoring, and Micro Focus AppPulse Trace for transaction and code-level performance issues. The suite of products have been discontinued and are no longer available.N/A
SolarWinds AppOptics
Score 8.0 out of 10
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SolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
7.4
Ratings
3% below category average
SolarWinds AppOptics
6.9
Ratings
10% below category average
Application monitoring7.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Database monitoring6.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Predictive capabilities8.00 Ratings4.60 Ratings
Application performance management console7.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications7.00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding7.00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring8.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery8.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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7.8
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
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9.6
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Support Rating
8.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)SolarWinds AppOptics
Likelihood to Recommend
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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AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
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Pros
  • Monitoring user web activities from the user's point of view.
  • Gives status details as clear dashboard formats.
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  • SolarWinds AppOptics has an easy to use and fast interface. Thus, you can use time more efficiently.
  • SolarWinds AppOptics has as many details as you want. So you only display deep details when you want.
  • SolarWinds AppOptics already has many plugins. So you can easily connect with your other services.
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Cons
  • It's getting slow when we work with large projects.
  • At first it's hard to find some features.
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  • The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future
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Usability
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AppOptics has performed well for all of the major functions we have needed it for. Especially when it comes to tracking down response time issues and researching app performance for different pages and different times of day we have been able to do everything we need to. We know there are some more advanced features that could help us in more niche areas, but haven't had the time to delve deeper into using or setting them up.
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Support Rating
Overall the support is good. Most of the hard situations passed smoothly because of the support team.
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Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.
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Alternatives Considered
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What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
  • Easy to install and manage.
  • Various stack support.
  • Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
  • Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
  • Alerts can be sent on different channels.
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Return on Investment
  • With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
  • Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.
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  • Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
  • As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
  • Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
  • Installation and integration is easy.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds AppOptics Screenshots

Screenshot of AppOptics Home ScreenScreenshot of AppOptics DashboardScreenshot of AppOptics TracesScreenshot of AppOptics Trace Root CauseScreenshot of AppOptics InfrastructureScreenshot of Host Heat Map