F5 Beacon vs. Oracle Real User Experience Insight (discontinued)

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.

It supports multiple state-of-the-art technologies for data collection. It can support passive, zero-touch network data collection as well as various forms of Browser and Server instrumentation. The business, therefore, needs to start monitoring the experience of the real user. They need to set up Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that reflect the experience of the end-user. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) also need to be set up particularly at the business services level, in addition to the normal SLAs set up for the infrastructure availability and performance.

Incentivized

• Accelerated troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Unified application visibility across hybrid environments
• Business level insight & KPI correlation

Incentivized

• KPI dashboard
• Data Browser
• Performance and Violation Overview

Incentivized

• 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.

• High cost.
• Training is very expensive.

Incentivized

The reason of giving above rating of 10 is that it offers intuitive, centralized dashboard which reduces the need to switch between multiple tools making it easier for IT teams to quickly assess application health. Moreover it offers easy correlation of technical and business metrics by linking application performance data directly to business KPIs. the major benefit of using Beacon is that it simplifies troubleshooting workflow which reduces Mean Time To Resolution hence improving productivity and minimizing downtime.

Incentivized

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.

ExtraHop. I did use it, but it projects almost the same matrix.

Incentivized

• Positive: Reduced downtime costs
• Positive: Improved IT efficiency
• Positive: Better business-IT alignment
• Negative: Scaling costs in large enterprises.

Incentivized

• Executive dashboard.
• RUEI can be used to monitor end-user activity and business services.

Incentivized