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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

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AppPulse Suite [EOL]
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    94% willing to recommend
     

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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
    Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Number of Reviews
    22
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
     

    Featured Reviews

    it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
    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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    Anton Kasimov
    Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
    Drill-down monitoring shows us the entire transaction chain, from the front end to back end. It needs HTML5 interface.
    I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace. If you try to compare SaaS and on-premise Foglight versions you can see differences in UI-design. It's my subjective experiences, but SaaS version looks more modern. Hope this helps
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    Quotes from Members

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

    Pros

    "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."
    "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."
    "The support that we get from HP is tremendous compared to other HP support – lots of good people that can give answers."
    "It’s a mandatory tool for us at this point."
    "It increased the customer satisfaction for the usage of my smart apps, and it reduces the number of crashes, proactively, so I know before the issue happens."
    "Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."
    "The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
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    "Foglight Enterprise was the most scalable and easy to deploy tool."
    "Foglight is the best overall solution we use, but it doesn't do everything we need or doesn't provide the best solution to everything we want to monitor."
    "Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
    "The stability we have as a result of using it made up for the cost of the product within a month."
    "We are able to capture the real time user experience of our solutions and we have an understanding of overall performance."
    "The extensive monitoring tools embedded in Foglight are a real asset."
    "Foglight has been our go to monitoring tool for several years in the DB2 and Oracle space."
    "The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
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    Cons

    "The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
    "The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
    "I would like to see more reporting and analytics."
    "However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."
    "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."
    "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."
    "It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
    "There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
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    "There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
    "In an older version of Foglight, we were not able to get any of our custom agents to work properly so that feature was not as much use as we had initially hoped and haven't tried using since."
    "The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
    "South African skill is scarce"
    "We had issues with deployment in the beginning until we had an expert guide us through the process."
    "We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."
    "Migrating to newer versions is always a challenge with Foglight."
    "They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
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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."
    "Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."
    "The price is expensive for us."
    "I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."
    "Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Construction Company
    17%
    Financial Services Firm
    16%
    Manufacturing Company
    15%
    Outsourcing Company
    9%
    Outsourcing Company
    17%
    Marketing Services Firm
    11%
    Construction Company
    10%
    Healthcare 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 Business3
    Midsize Enterprise7
    Large Enterprise13
     

    Comparisons

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    Compared 14% of the time
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    Compared 8% of the time
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    Compared 8% of the time
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    Compared 20% of the time
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    Compared 16% of the time
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    Compared 16% of the time
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    Compared 14% of the time
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    Also Known As

    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse
    Foglight, Dell Foglight
     

    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
    Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.
    Quest Software
     

    Sample Customers

    SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group
    Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com
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