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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACompuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A

    Request Metrics

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARealtime website performance tests generated from real user experience on a website. Request Metrics gathers performance data from actual users, rather than a synthetic tests. Request Metrics is website performance monitoring, simplified for small high performance teams. There is no complicated query languages to learn or theoretical metrics to understand. The service provides reports that help keep a website running fast, and customers…

    $37

    per month

    Pricing
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Request Metrics
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $37
    per month
    Professional
    $96
    per month
    Custom
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Request Metrics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and Request Metrics
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Request Metrics
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    14% 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
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Request Metrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Discontinued Products
    • 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
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    • 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
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    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
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Request Metrics Screenshots

    Screenshot of an illustration of how Request Metrics tracks Core Web VitalsScreenshot of an example of a few website performance tracking reportsScreenshot of load sequences available for debuggingScreenshot of problem drill downScreenshot of SEO monitoring