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Akamai mPulse

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Featured Review
Arivu Arumugam
Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within
The solution didn't help us much and that's the reason we never used mPulse on a full scale and why we chose to go with Dynatrace.
Anonymous User
The solution has a good auto-instrumentation feature, but its monitoring is pretty weak
Instana Dynamic APM gave us insight when there wasn't a lot of stuff on the market.
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Pros
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great.""The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."

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"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself.""It is a stable solution.""The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation.""It's great for monitoring services and applications.""Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration.""The overall capabilities are the most valuable.""The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis.""Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."

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Cons
"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions.""The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."

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"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes.""Maybe log monitoring could be better.""The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work.""We'd always like to see additional functionalities.""While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality""The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved.""We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good.""Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."

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  • "Pricing is quite competitive. Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic were all several times more expensive than Instana, both the on-prem and the SaaS versions. Price-wise they are a lot more competitive than anyone else out there."
  • "Its pricing isn't a big pain point. Its pricing seems to be better than some of the other competing products in the market, but they also have some of the features and functionalities that are better than Instana."
  • "The pricing is $1,200 per year which is a bit high compared to other vendors."
  • "The solution is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "It's reasonably priced and manageable, especially for individuals who grasp the significance of application monitoring."
  • "The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."
  • "Instana Dynamic APM is more affordable for small and medium-sized companies compared to other vendors."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Akamai mPulse?
    Top Answer:Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great.
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    What needs improvement with Akamai mPulse?
    Top Answer:The end-to-end distributor tracing needs some work because the connectivity from the user to the backend wasn't there. Akamai mPulse was not able to deliver on our requirements regarding observation… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Akamai mPulse?
    Top Answer:The primary use case of mPulse is for real-time user monitoring. Our use case was to observe the entire platform from the user all the way to the backend system and that's what it did. It's all in the… more »
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    What do you like most about Instana Dynamic APM?
    Top Answer:The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Instana Dynamic APM?
    Top Answer:Instana Dynamic APM is more affordable for small and medium-sized companies compared to AppDynamics and Dynatrace.
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    What needs improvement with Instana Dynamic APM?
    Top Answer:They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options. Additionally, the server and database monitoring needs enhancement compared to other vendors.
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    Ranking
    51st
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    1,070
    Comparisons
    861
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    457
    Rating
    5.0
    20th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    4,014
    Comparisons
    3,178
    Reviews
    6
    Average Words per Review
    328
    Rating
    8.0
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    SOASTA mPulse
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    Overview

    Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that gives performance engineers, administrators, and developers the ability to effortlessly visualize website functionality issues and identify ways to improve processes that conventional testing protocols do not find. mPulse gives users usable scenarios to better understand how processes such as user interactions, visual progress, and third-party resources may be disrupting the overall user experience and application delivery.

    mPulse enables users to take a deep dive into the specific performance issues and complete comprehensive error analyses, to thoroughly understand the effect on critical user interactions such as conversions, page views, and more.

    mPulse gathers and delivers data on an organization's website’s performance and metrics on user web browsing experiences. The mPulse feature “Boomerang” is a JavaScript Library that monitors the website page load time. Boomerang has a unique plugin architecture and works with all websites. The Boomerang feature is embedded on each page of an organization's website.

    mPulse works seamlessly with Akamai solution Ion, so the RUM data can be instantly gathered once the Luna Control Center has been activated. Ion instantly attaches Boomerang to the organization’s web properties; there is no need to change the website code.

    Akamai mPulse Benefits

    • Third-party monitoring: mPulse enables users to effortlessly monitor and visualize the effect that third-party vendors, resources, and scripts may have on the organization’s web properties.

    • Real-time intuitions: RUM data is continually being gathered, so users are able to instantly experience changes in user performance during every critical event. Users are able to respond immediately and make corrections or amendments as needed. Additionally, mPulse integrates effectively with other third-party notification solutions, such as Slack, PagerDuty, and webhook API support.

    • Framework integrations: mPulse integrates with many of today’s popular single-page application (SPA) frameworks, such as React.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, Ember.js, and even some custom frameworks. mPulse has the ability to also be seamlessly integrated in Non-SPA websites.

    • Intuitive feedback: mPulse gathers data and creates workable solutions so users have a better understanding of how objects, images, or even entire pages are affecting user behavior. Users can gather numerous metrics (custom or advanced) to achieve a better, more complete understanding of ways to improve the user experience with the application or website.

    • Custom metrics and timers: With mPulse, users can effortlessly create custom timers to discover important performance sessions unique to the application. The mPulse dashboard allows users to set up trackers for numerous metrics, such as:

      • First image load time
      • Sidebar load time
      • Page load times
      • Third-party resource content load time

    • mPulse Beacon API: This valuable benefit allows users to send custom metrics from mobile and web applications to mPulse. This gives mPulse greater flexibility and usability to frameworks and platforms that can make HTTP calls. Representational State Transfer (REST) interface is included and is able to be used by any web application using any language running on the platform. There is also a Beacon API library for JavaScript. This option is available from the dashboard by creating a new application and an API key.

    Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation, and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. Learn more at https://instana.com.

    Sample Customers
    Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Retailer10%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Large Enterprise86%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise42%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Akamai mPulse is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Akamai mPulse is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog and AppDynamics, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Elastic Observability.

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