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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Beacon

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AF5 Beacon an open source tool used to gain full visibility across an application landscape, obtain app insights and business intelligence, and make better-informed decisions. With the Beacon Insight Engine, users can leverage pre-built insights or create custom insights. Beacon also integrates with many types of deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments—and provides a set of app stats in a simple SaaS model.

    $0

    ManageEngine Applications Manager

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AManageEngine Applications Manager is an application performance management solution that also provides the ability to manage end user experience of enterprise Internet Services and hosted Web Services.

    $395

    per year per user

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    F5 BeaconManageEngine Applications Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Professional Edition
    $395
    per year per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $9,595
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 BeaconManageEngine Applications Manager
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    F5 BeaconManageEngine Applications Manager
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    F5
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    F5 BeaconManageEngine Applications Manager
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of F5 Beacon and ManageEngine Applications Manager
    Feature
    F5 Beacon
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    ManageEngine Applications Manager
    9.2
    13 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Application monitoring10.01 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    Database monitoring10.01 Ratings9.111 Ratings
    Threshold alerts10.01 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities10.01 Ratings9.212 Ratings
    Application performance management console10.01 Ratings9.310 Ratings
    Collaboration tools10.01 Ratings9.95 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications8.01 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding10.01 Ratings9.111 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring10.01 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring10.01 Ratings9.213 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.01 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery9.01 Ratings9.95 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    F5 BeaconManageEngine Applications Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 BeaconManageEngine Applications Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It is very well suited in complex, multi-cloud application environments where it provides holistic, application-centric visibility by ingesting data from NGINX and other telemetry sources. It helps troubleshoot performance issues in high-availability and regulated environments where outages have a high impact on strict SLAs. It is less appropriate in situations where organizations rely on unmaintained or archived integrations.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    It has strength in collecting information through SSH, WMI, Telnet, SNMP, http, https, MSSQL ports (several types of DB postgresql, db2, SAP MaxDB, HANA which we must monitor).The information it extracts is very useful to us since each type of monitor gives us visibility of what happens internally in them.The truth is that the needs that we have had during these years, ManageEngine Application Manager has been able to cover them especially with business core (ERP) with monitoring of SAP Server and SAP CCMS.
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    Pros
    F5
    • It supports seamless multi cloud and hybrid monitoring with easy integration.
    • It provides actionable insights for faster troubleshooting.
    • It delivers comprehensive end to end application visibility.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Intuitive ease of the administration interface
    • Improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates
    • Visibility into the status of our services and the end user experience (End to End)
    • Reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services.
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    Cons
    F5
    • F5 needs improvement in Platform Stability and Maintenance gaps.
    • It has limited built-in insights and relies heavily on customization.
    • Application modeling and data ingestion setup is complex.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Plugin Quirks where it times out
    • Navigation through some of the screen seems a bit confusing
    • Consistency such as where license info is location between op and app manager are in different places. Better if it were consistent
    • Maintenance schedules in different locations in both Op and App manger product, needs consistency. They are all Zoho products!!
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    For the the trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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    Usability
    F5
    The reason for the above rating is that F5 Beacon delivers clear visibility, helpful insights, and streamlined decision-making, which, in turn, translates into a better user experience. Beacon easily ingests telemetry from multiple sources, including NGINX, BIG-IP devices, and third-party platforms. The Beacon insight engine generates actionable recommendations and performs anomaly detection.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The intuitive ease of the administration interface, the new features, improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates. Tuning or more detailed reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services. The capacity for improvements that are implemented and the ease of integrating new monitors into the product, which we need, gives us the speed and ease of preventing interruptions or events that helps us avoid.
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    Support Rating
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    F5 Beacon is best for F5-centric, hybrid, app-centric visibility, whereas Datadog is best for cloud-native, distributed observability. F5 beacon is superior for understanding BIG-IP flows, WAF, ADC behavior at the app level. It has a unified view of F5-powered applications. F5 Beacon simplifies troubleshooting across multicloud F5 deployments. Beacon provides business logic level visibility.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Other solutions like Microsoft EM and SCCM can be interdependent and cause all sorts of issues and additional costs. I think software should be optionally integrated and work on its own as a standalone solution. I like that ManageEngine allows for specific use of its software and not forcing users into an unneeded license or contract.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • Positive - It provides deep, application-centric visibility by aggregating telemetry from NGINX and other sources.
    • Positive - It improved decision making about scaling, security, and resource allocation.
    • Negative - Setup and Maintenance is a bit complex.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • By providing valuable insights into application performance and resource utilization, it has contributed to better decision-making and resource allocation.
    • It has helped us identify and resolve performance issues more quickly, minimizing the impact on business operations.
    • ManageEngine Application Manager has improved our ability to monitor and manage critical applications, reducing downtime and improving overall productivity.
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