BMC AMI Strobe vs. Request Metrics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BMC AMI Strobe
Score 6.9 out of 10
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BMC AMI Strobe (formerly Compuware Strobe) is is a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications that helps performance analysts pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption and prolonged execution time.N/A
Request Metrics
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Request Metrics is presented as a fast, simple, and affordable way to monitor the real user performance of a website. The vendor states they approach APM differently, rather than trying to understand everything about every part of a system, their solution focuses on understanding the performance as experienced by real users, and showing metrics that any developer can understand. Request Metrics is built for the small busy software teams that can't spend all their time and budget on software…N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$10 monthly page views
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BMC AMI Strobe
7.2
1 Ratings
6% below category average
Request Metrics
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Application monitoring7.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Database monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BMC AMI StrobeRequest Metrics
Likelihood to Recommend
BMC Software Inc.
Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
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TrackJS
Request Metrics is great for small web development teams that want to make fast web applications. It was quick for us to get started and we could use the reports right away without having to read through documentation. If you just need to get some performance metrics, Request Metrics is perfect. It would not be so good for a larger team or a complex backend application as it is pretty limited in what it can measure.
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Pros
BMC Software Inc.
  • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
  • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
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TrackJS
  • Performance charts are really simple and easy for us to understand what is happening
  • It was easy to get started and doesn't need administration or training
  • It's affordable for our team
  • It's fast
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Cons
BMC Software Inc.
  • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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TrackJS
  • I wish that it could also do uptime checking of the site
  • There is not enough detail to drill into individual users
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Alternatives Considered
BMC Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
TrackJS
We also consider Speedcurve and Calibre for monitoring. Speedcurve was really nice, but the reports were slow. We had to wait a lot to get information. It was also out of our budget and would require extra justification to use it. Calibre was also nice, but the numbers were based on synthetic rather than real user performance. We felt that this wasn't as helpful for us.
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Return on Investment
BMC Software Inc.
  • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
  • Smoothened robots deployment.
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TrackJS
  • The launch of our project dashboard was much smoother and more successful because we could fix problems earlier
  • It fit without our existing operations budget
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ScreenShots

Request Metrics Screenshots

Screenshot of Website performance dashboard rolls up the performance of your users as well as the busiest and slowest URLs.Screenshot of Page performance report shows you the performance distribution and breakdown of a single normalized URL as well as web vitals.Screenshot of API endpoint performance report shows you the performance distribution and breakdown of an API call.Screenshot of Alert history report shows you when and why an alert was triggered with the history of the URL.