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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

    Retrace (legacy)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AStackify Retrace provides application performance management across the entire stack. Coupled with aggregated logs from common logging frameworks, find every exception in code. Retrace code with lightweight code profiling and track and monitor all key application and server metrics. The vendor states that with coverage for full lifecycle development, the Stackify Retrace software offering is tailored to be inclusive for multiple role types, and presents everything your team needs to know about…

    $99

    up to 3 servers, 500,000 traces, and 1,000,000 logs

    Pricing
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Retrace (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $99
    up to 3 servers, 500,000 traces, and 1,000,000 logs
    Standard
    249+
    2,000,000+ traces and 5,000,000+ logs
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Customer number of traces and logs
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Retrace (legacy)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is based on trace and log usage.
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    Features
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Retrace (legacy)
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and Retrace (legacy)
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Retrace (legacy)
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Application monitoring7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Database monitoring6.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Retrace (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Retrace (legacy)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    If I need to change a logo design on the invoice, the new logo is slightly larger or smaller so the type below the logo is in a different area than before. In this case, you would need to load the new version of the document into APM Plus and redo the mapping of the field areas to properly grab the information needed to process the document. Without doing this, the document could fail or go to the wrong archive based on the fields.
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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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    • Integration of performance management with log management so you get the parameters sent
    • In-line log and error data in trace
    • Integration of error and log data, so in one click you can see all the logs recorded when an error was thrown
    • Very reasonably priced
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    • To set up the fields that APM Plus monitors, you need to map each field area on each document.
    • APM Plus could use a way to link the documents back into the finance or business software so you can find the document under the PO, Sales Order, Invoice, etc.
    • APM Plus setup is only for the professionals. There are many areas that need tweaking on setup, having a better default setup would lessen the learning curve to set it up for use.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    It is a very impressive tool which doesn't overwhelm you with unnecessary data. They have combination of tools that haven't seen by any other company which makes it a very powerful tool
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • APM Plus has freed up users from having to manually attach documents to each place they are sending it. APM Plus will do it automatically.
    • APM Plus provides a searchable archive to re-visit sent documents with customers and vendors. Having to reprint a document you risk the potential that something has changed since it was last printed.
    • APM Plus does need IT staff for adjustments and to review sending problems. Not for an average user.
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    ScreenShots

    Retrace (legacy) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Detailed stack trace with inline error and logsScreenshot of Web Apps Dashboard:
The Apps Page gives you a high-level overview of all applications found and monitored across all servers in each environment. Click on any app to take you to the App Dashboard to view more information for a particular app.Screenshot of Apps Dashboard:
The App Dashboard is a powerful monitoring and troubleshooting perspective that gives you a view of application health across one or more environments.Screenshot of Performance (APM+) Dashboard:
The Performance section will give you a report of how well the application is performing overall, as perceived by your users.  A graph will allow you to view all requests by Satisfaction by viewing "Fast", "Sluggish", "Too Slow", or "Failed" types of requests.  Another report includes graphs of HTTP Error%, Satisfaction Score%, and Page Load Time.  Lastly, you will have the ability to sort each page request of your App by different categories: Satisfaction, Slowest page, Failed pages, pages hit, and total load time.  By clicking on an individual page a Performance Details page with further information about that specific page's health, performance, and errors will be displayed.Screenshot of Performance Traces:
One of the ways we strive to deliver relevant insights is to only collect traces around interesting requests. Some examples of these request types that are interesting would be faster than normal, slower than normal, new web requests, requests introducing new SQL, requests introducing new exceptions, or abnormal satisfaction scores. Under performing requests will be profiled more often than fast requests. As long as the app is getting steady traffic Retrace should be saving a trace every 5 to 15 minutes.Screenshot of Errors Dashboard:
From the Errors Dashboard, you can get an overview of all the exceptions of all your applications across different environments. It gives you a central location to view details about your errors.