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What is ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine Applications Manager is an application performance monitoring and infrastructure monitoring product used to track the health, availability, and performance of business applications and their supporting components. It targets IT operations and application support teams that need unified monitoring across servers, applications, databases, middleware, and cloud services. The product combines agentless and agent-based monitoring with dashboards, alerting, and reporting, and it is commonly deployed on-premises with options for distributed monitoring.
Broad hybrid monitoring coverage
The product monitors a wide range of components including application servers, web servers, databases, virtualization platforms, and public cloud services. This breadth supports end-to-end visibility for many common enterprise stacks without requiring separate tools for each layer. It also includes dependency and service monitoring features that help correlate application issues with underlying infrastructure conditions.
Flexible deployment and scaling
Applications Manager supports on-premises deployment and can be used in distributed setups with multiple collectors/monitors for larger environments. This fits organizations with data residency constraints or limited ability to send telemetry to external services. It also supports both agentless approaches (for many infrastructure targets) and agents where deeper application telemetry is needed.
Integrated alerting and reporting
The product provides threshold-based alerts, escalation policies, and notification integrations to support operational workflows. Built-in dashboards and scheduled reports help teams track SLA-style availability and performance trends over time. These capabilities reduce the need for separate reporting tools for common monitoring and capacity review use cases.
Limited advanced AIOps depth
While it includes correlation and analytics features, it typically relies more on rule/threshold-driven alerting than on advanced automated root-cause analysis. Organizations seeking highly automated anomaly detection and remediation may need additional tooling or significant tuning. This can increase operational effort in noisy environments with many metrics and dependencies.
APM depth varies by stack
Deep code-level tracing and modern distributed tracing capabilities can be more limited or require additional configuration compared with platforms built primarily around full-stack observability. Coverage and detail depend on the specific language/runtime and the monitoring method used (agent vs. agentless). Teams running microservices-heavy architectures may find gaps in trace context and service-to-service visibility.
UI and configuration complexity
Because it spans many monitoring domains, initial setup (templates, thresholds, dependency mapping, and alert routing) can be time-consuming. The interface exposes many options that can feel dense for smaller teams or less mature monitoring practices. Ongoing maintenance is often needed to keep monitors aligned with changing application inventories and cloud resources.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price (Annual Subscription / Perpetual) | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 (Supports up to 5 apps/servers; can be used forever) | Basic monitoring tier; supports up to 5 monitors; installation reverts to Free edition after trial. Source: official pricing page. |
| Professional | Examples (Annual / Perpetual): 10 monitors (1 user): US$395 / US$995; 25 monitors: US$945 / US$2,395; 50 monitors: US$1,795 / US$4,495; 100 monitors: US$3,195 / US$7,995; 250 monitors: US$7,195 / US$17,995; 500 monitors: US$10,995 / US$27,495; 750 monitors: US$14,395 / US$35,995 | Includes 1 user by default; additional user licenses available (US$98/year for 1 user on annual subscription); add-ons available at flat fees; recommended for small–medium deployments (for >250 monitors, Enterprise is recommended). |
| Enterprise | Examples (Annual / Perpetual): 100 monitors (1 user): US$3,995 / US$9,995; 250 monitors: US$9,595 / US$23,995; 500 monitors: US$13,195 / US$32,995; 750 monitors: US$17,995 / US$44,995; 1000 monitors: US$22,795 / US$56,995; 2000 monitors: US$40,795 / US$101,995; 5000 monitors: US$83,995 / US$209,995 | Designed for large enterprises; supports distributed monitoring up to 10,000 monitors; Annual Subscription includes Maintenance & Support (AMS) as shown on pricing page; additional users priced separately. |
Additional pricing details (official site):
- Additional user license pricing (Annual): 1 user US$98; 2 users US$138; 5 users US$238; 10 users US$378; 25 users US$618; unlimited US$958. (Perpetual equivalents are listed on site.)
- Add-ons (flat fees) examples (Annual / Perpetual): APM Insight agents (Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python) — Enterprise: US$1,795/year (US$4,495 perpetual); Professional: US$1,195/year (US$2,995 perpetual). End User Monitoring (EUM) — Enterprise US$2,395/year (US$5,995 perpetual); Professional US$1,195/year (US$2,995 perpetual).
- Real User Monitor (RUM) add-on pricing by page views/month (Annual examples): 100K PV US$65/year; 1M PV US$485/year; 10M PV US$2,595/year; up to 100M PV US$19,995/year (perpetual equivalents also listed).
- AppLogs (log ingestion) add-on (Annual examples): 10 GB US$115/year; 100 GB US$1,175/year; 1000 GB US$9,275/year (perpetual equivalents also listed).
Notes:
- Prices shown are taken from ManageEngine's official Applications Manager pricing page and related official product/download pages.
- Annual Subscription prices include AMS (Annual Maintenance & Support) per the pricing table.
Seller details
Zoho Corporation
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
1996
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