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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AMicro Focus Diagnostics was the analytics and issue diagnostics component of the Application Performance Management suite. It provided code-level visibility into transaction activity across applications and the network they are operating on. The product is no longer available for sale.N/A

    SolarWinds AppOptics

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A
    Pricing
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    Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued) and SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    6.9
    30 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Application monitoring9.01 Ratings8.530 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings6.526 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities7.01 Ratings4.612 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.01 Ratings7.226 Ratings
    Collaboration tools7.01 Ratings6.014 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings6.220 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings6.618 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)SolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)SolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    I would say on 90% of our agent installs everything works without any modification. If the application however makes a large use of memory based cache and analysis that classes will need to be excluded from instrumentation or it will impact performance.
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    SolarWinds
    AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
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    Pros
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    • Agent level customization - For highly performant applications we can easily exclude instrumentation, yet still receive the benefit of historical tracking on common data points like CPU, Heap and GC cycles.
    • Support - In the 5+ years working with the product any HP solution engagements have been quick to provide a needed configuration solution.
    • Agent Diversity - Have used the product across 6+ differing middleware technologies comprising dozens of version (both middleware and java) combinations.
    • Agent installation - With its ability to support a silent type install, automating was a simple task.
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    SolarWinds
    • Request tracing with code profiling.
    • Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
    • Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
    • Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
    • Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
    • Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
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    Cons
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    • The product does offer a lot of functionality - This can lead to a cluttered user interface and does take some time to become comfortable and proficient in its use.
    • Data Volume - We have had some issues in balancing the desire to keep all data and consuming infrastructure storage.
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    SolarWinds
    • The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    SolarWinds
    We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future
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    Usability
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    SolarWinds
    As far a usability is concerned for AppOptics, it is just as matter of few minutes away even if you start from scratch, as all you need to do is register on the site and you will get the URL and password. And after this all you have to do is follow the instruction, as per the configuration wizard (tool tip) within the console for various technology such as SQL, IIS, .NET
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    Support Rating
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    While it has been several years since using BMC Patrol I like that HP doesn't require me to have a custom module added for every different type of product I would like to instrument.
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    SolarWinds
    What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
    • Easy to install and manage.
    • Various stack support.
    • Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
    • Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
    • Alerts can be sent on different channels.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Performance Tuning - Product is fully integrated to provide baseline and drift across releases.
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    SolarWinds
    • Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
    • As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
    • Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
    • Installation and integration is easy.
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