See what is slow. Know exactly why.
Akamai mPulse shows you frontend performance data. Atatus gives you the full picture — from the user's browser all the way down to the database query that caused it, in one unified platform.
Monitoring channels in one platform
Average detection time for triggered anomalies
Metrics collected per user session
Average rating across G2, Capterra & more
Human support, not just chatbots
RUM-only tools and full-stack observability are different things.
Akamai mPulse focuses on real user monitoring — page load times, bounce correlation, and frontend KPIs. But when the root cause is a slow database query, a failing API, or a backend service degrading under load, it has no visibility there. That's where Atatus begins.
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Application Performance Monitoring
Atatus traces every request from the browser through your APIs, databases, and queues with full distributed tracing. mPulse provides no backend visibility — you'd need a separate APM to close that gap.
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Real User Monitoring — With Root Cause
Both tools capture RUM metrics like LCP and TTFB. Atatus enriches them with JS error traces and links directly to the backend span that caused the slow interaction, giving developers the full picture.
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Unified Alerting Across Your Entire Stack
Atatus fires a single intelligent alert when Core Web Vitals degrade and surfaces the correlated API timeout in the same notification. With mPulse alone, connecting frontend signals to backend causes requires another tool.
Know exactly when Atatus fits your team.
Every team has different apps, gaps, and priorities. Here is where Atatus delivers what mPulse structurally cannot — without additional paid products.
Transaction failure with server-side context in the same alert
When checkout fails, Atatus shows the SQL query, stack trace, and user session side by side — no pivoting to another tool.
Identify which pages are impacted when a third-party API slows down
When a payment gateway or external service degrades, Atatus shows exactly which pages and transactions are affected — with frontend fidelity plus backend trace data in one view.
Core Web Vitals tied to revenue, without Akamai CDN dependency
Atatus delivers LCP, FID, CLS, and TTFB correlated with conversion metrics regardless of your CDN provider — mPulse accuracy relies on Akamai network injection.
Akamai subscriber and real-time monitoring — in one tool
Atatus works across every CDN and hosting provider. No dependency on Akamai infrastructure means consistent data and portability if your CDN changes.
Log analysis during incidents, no separate toolchain required
Structured logs, traces, and metrics are unified in Atatus. mPulse has no log management — you would need Splunk or Elastic alongside it to investigate an incident fully.
Dramatically simpler pricing for your monitoring budget
Akamai mPulse pricing is enterprise-negotiated with no public rates. Atatus publishes clear per-seat plans — no sales call required, no surprise beacon-volume billing.
Atatus vs Akamai mPulse
When mPulse reaches its limits, Atatus picks up — and goes further.
Atatus
Full-stack APM — Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, .NET, PHP, Go with auto-instrumentation
Real User Monitoring — lightweight JS snippet, session-level detail, JS error correlation
Synthetic monitoring — browser and HTTP checks, per-minute intervals, 20+ global locations
Log management — ship, search, filter, and alert on structured logs in one platform
Core Web Vitals — LCP, FID, CLS, TTFB with percentile distributions and user segment filters
Infrastructure monitoring — host metrics, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud providers
ICDN-agnostic — works on any CDN; no dependency on Akamai network for data accuracy
Transparent public pricing — no sales call required, no beacon-volume surprises
Akamai pulse
No APM — browser-only; backend tracing requires separate Akamai products or third-party APM
Real User Monitoring — 200+ session signals, Akamai CDN beacon injection for near-100% session capture
No synthetic monitoring — uptime and API checks require additional Akamai products
No log management — log analysis requires a separate SIEM or third-party tooling
Core Web Vitals & business impact — speed metrics correlated with bounce, revenue, and conversion
No infrastructure monitoring — host and container visibility is outside mPulse's scope
Akamai CDN-dependent — beacon injection benefit only applies if you are already on Akamai
Enterprise-negotiated pricing — no public rates; requires sales engagement and scoping
We started running mPulse for the RUM data, then found ourselves opening five other tools every time there was an incident. Atatus gave us the same frontend fidelity plus backend traces and logs — engineers now spend the first five minutes fixing, not investigating.
Suresh R.
Platform Engineering· SaaS Startup
Average time to full-stack visibility after installing the Atatus agent
User sessions monitored across Atatus customers today
Of Atatus plans include dedicated 24/7 human support
Questions teams ask before switching.
What most mPulse users want to know before making the move to Atatus.
Yes. Atatus provides synthetic uptime checks (HTTP and browser) from global locations at per-minute intervals, plus full Real User Monitoring with Core Web Vitals, session-level drill-down, and JS error correlation — everything mPulse covers, and more.
mPulse's CDN-based beacon delivery is a genuine strength — it ensures the beacon loads before the page's JS, capturing sessions that might otherwise be missed. Atatus uses a lightweight async snippet that performs well in real-world conditions. If 100% beacon capture is critical and you're already on Akamai, that's worth factoring in against the tradeoff of full-stack visibility mPulse cannot provide.
You can wire mPulse to PagerDuty and another APM to a second alert channel — but you'll join incidents manually across systems. Atatus fires a single intelligent alert that surfaces both the frontend degradation and the correlated backend cause in one notification.
Atatus captures the same user-perceived metrics — LCP, FID, CLS, TTFB, FCP — from real browsers and correlates them automatically with backend performance. You get the user-facing truth alongside the server-side root cause in one unified timeline.
Most teams are fully instrumented within a day. Atatus agents install with a single command and RUM is one script tag. You can run it alongside your current stack — our team helps you deduplicate alerts during the transition so you don't get double notifications.
Yes. Atatus holds SOC 2 Type II certification and is GDPR compliant. Data residency options are available on Enterprise plans, and full security documentation is available on request for your compliance review process.
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