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Icinga vs. Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Icinga

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIcinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.N/A

    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AThe Micro Focus AppPulse Suite was an integrated solution of synthetic, real-user, and diagnostic monitoring for UX, that included Micro Focus AppPulse Active synthetic monitoring for SLA, Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile for real user mobile experience, Micro Focus AppPulse Web for web app availability monitoring, and Micro Focus AppPulse Trace for transaction and code-level performance issues. The suite of products have been discontinued and are no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    IcingaMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
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    IcingaMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IcingaMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Icinga and Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Icinga
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    Ratings
    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IcingaMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IcingaMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is a world-class monitoring system. It can be used for most general monitoring situations. It is not a silver bullet, however, and there are instances where domain-specific monitoring systems are necessary. However, the output from those monitoring systems can be funneled into Icinga as a central monitoring and alerting system.
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    From my point of view, when we are working with a medium package project, this Micro Focus AppPulse Suite is very useful and effective at finding problems in our activities and codes and isolating them. But when we are working on large-size projects or backend performances, it works slowly to detect issues.
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    Pros
    Icinga GmbH
    • Wealth of community-developed plugins.
    • Stable codebase.
    • Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring.
    • Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server.
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    • Monitoring user web activities from the user's point of view.
    • Gives status details as clear dashboard formats.
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    Cons
    Icinga GmbH
    • High learning curve, setting up Icinga from scratch can be a bit of a challenge starting out.
    • If the io2db process fails you UI stops updating, which can be very frustrating.
    • There is no simple mechanism for adding new hosts and services through the web UI, it's all very config-file based.
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    • It's getting slow when we work with large projects.
    • At first it's hard to find some features.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is a solid solution which does everything it promises. It is backwards compatible with most Nagios instances, making the transition very easy. Once you get the hang of installing new plugins and editing configuration files expanding its monitoring capabilities are easy.
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    Support Rating
    Icinga GmbH
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    Overall the support is good. Most of the hard situations passed smoothly because of the support team.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is better than Nagios because of its nicer user interface. New Relic can monitor CPU/memory and disk usage, but it's more of a performance and application troubleshooting tool rather than monitoring
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    Return on Investment
    Icinga GmbH
    • With one check you know which applications are faulty e.g. after an upgrade. Which is big time saver
    • You easily detect outages ion the applications so that your customer ideally does not even realize there was an outage.
    • Detect if the environment does deliver the same result as in the same time as before to detect shortages.
    • Additional information when debugging. Saved us several hours where we could simply point to a database which was slow.
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    Discontinued Products
    • With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
    • Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.
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