Akamai mPulse vs. AppNeta

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai mPulse
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
mPulse, from Akamai, is a real-time end-user digital experience monitoring solution (or RUM, for real user monitoring) that enables the user to capture user experience data, optimize website performance, and measure ROI.N/A
AppNeta
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
AppNeta provides performance monitoring solutions for distributed, cloud-connected, digital enterprises. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.N/A
Pricing
Akamai mPulseAppNeta
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai mPulseAppNeta
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Cisco ThousandEyes
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Akamai mPulseAppNeta
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai mPulseAppNeta
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
In general, if you manage a website, you must have a real user monitoring tool. mPulse is one of the leaders in the market, so if you use this product, you can count on the reliability of the product itself. Personally, I think that if you need to collect technical KPIs, mPulse is a good choice. If on top of technical metrics, you want to collect also business KPIs, potentially there are other products doing this better.
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Broadcom
AppNeta is awesome for getting site-to-site statistics or trying to find out why at 3 am every night, this server loses connectivity to another server in a different data center. But we have found the multiple bugs in the hardware hard to deal with when the devices are a 4-hour plane ride away and require someone to console into the device.
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Pros
Akamai
  • Real time data: you can know in real time how your website is performing.
  • "What if" functionality to choose, from a business point of view, the right web pages to improve
  • Understanding what are the slow pages and seeing the impact on the global performance from a technical and a business point of view.
  • Waterfall functionality - possibility to go in details to a specific session.
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Broadcom
  • AppNeta provides detailed application availability & uptime.
  • AppNeta provides great longitudinal data regarding how the applications perform including an overall grade or "AppDex."
  • AppNeta sends notifications of service downtime that aids in technical dispatch.
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Cons
Akamai
  • The creation of a specific dashboard is not easy. You can leverage the available dashboards but if you need something else is not so easy to achieve.
  • Old UI - the look and feel of the product should be improved. It seems very old.
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Broadcom
  • Hardware has a lot of bugs.
  • Auto-updates cannot be turned off on the hardware, causing blips in monitoring.
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Support Rating
Akamai
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Broadcom
Timely support is one of AppNeta's strong suits. But the ability to develop permeant fixes for issues within there product is where they lack.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
Generally speaking, both products allow you to not be blind on your website. Easily, you can see how your website is performing. At the moment, Blue Triangle is better than Akamai for the business part (there are more business metrics collected and many more available dashboards for consuming this kind of data). Moreover, the look and feel and the usability of the Blue Triangle portal is better than Akamai one.
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Broadcom
We currently use Nagios/GroundWork and Cacti to perform network monitoring. AppNeta's UI is far superior.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Choose the right pages to optimize.
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Broadcom
  • A reduction in network outages and length of network outages.
  • More detailed post outage investigation available.
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ScreenShots

AppNeta Screenshots

Screenshot of a visualization for monitoring what apps are in use on a network.Screenshot of AppNeta's in-depth diagnostics, used by IT Ops to identify the root cause of network and app performance issues.Screenshot of the enhanced Selenium scripting that can be used for web synthetic monitoring to benchmark and alert on performance for business-critical SaaS apps.Screenshot of monitoring of the actual application path with multi-protocol route determination for TCP, UDP and ICMP. Key network metrics can be tracked, like Latency, Loss, Capacity and Jitter continuously with AppNeta.Screenshot of how AppNeta correlates poor performance per host and--with Active Directory--with users.Screenshot of monitoring the usage of a network for recreational apps to see when they're stealing bandwidth from your business critical apps. Users can segment by location or app to drill into more details across the entire AppNeta Performance Manager dataset.