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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Airbrake

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAirbrake, now from LogicMonitor (acquired February 2021) is an error monitoring and performance insight tool. Airbrak offers real-time error alerts, rich contextual data about why errors are occurring, integration into an existing workflow, and application performance insights to enable users to identify, diagnose, and fix problems - before users get annoyed.

    $0

    per month

    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACompuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A

    New Relic

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANew Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

    $0

    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks

    Pricing
    AirbrakeCompuware Strobe (discontinued)New Relic
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    per month
    Basic
    $19
    per month
    Pro
    $38
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Free (Forever)
    $0
    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
    Telemetry Data Platform
    $0.25
    per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
    Incident Intelligence
    $0.50
    per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
    Standard
    $99
    per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
    Pro
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    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AirbrakeCompuware Strobe (discontinued)New Relic
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAirbrake offers plans that include up to 200M errors, plus unlimited on-demand errors. Start your free trial and find the plan that right for your needs. 10% discount available for annual pricing.——
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    Community Pulse
    AirbrakeCompuware Strobe (discontinued)New Relic
    Considered Multiple Products
    LogicMonitor
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    New Relic
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Would buy again
    71 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    76 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    68 Answers
    Features
    AirbrakeCompuware Strobe (discontinued)New Relic
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Airbrake and Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and New Relic
    Feature
    Airbrake
    -
    Ratings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    New Relic
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AirbrakeCompuware Strobe (discontinued)New Relic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (148 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AirbrakeCompuware Strobe (discontinued)New Relic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LogicMonitor
    Airbrake is very good at what it does, I don’t really have any criticism at all on that front. It’s less well-suited when bugfixing goes beyond the immediate error and means looking at a lot of context (particularly asynchronous context) like logs.
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    Discontinued Products
    Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
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    New Relic
    New Relic its an excellent tool for monitoring services used on the SAAS universe, like web servers, relational and nosql dbms, reverse proxies, text databases, etc. Its also a powerful tool to monitor resource usage on said servers. However, its not well fitted to monitor custom services - if you need to generate alerts based on logs or database information, for example
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    LogicMonitor
    • Integration with most of languages and frameworks as well support via existing logging configs.
    • Aggregations on occurrences which helps to understand and analyse issues better.
    • Web UI displays all error related parameters which I never could have figured out in manual debugging.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
    • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
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    New Relic
    • It gives us insights of applications, infrastructure, clouds very well.
    • The alerting system in New Relic helps us to easily identify the root cause which reduces the MTTR.
    • It has new features related to AI which helps to troubleshoot any problem in a very short time it gives future predictions also.
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    Cons
    LogicMonitor
    • We use Airbrake in conjunction with OpsGenie, but I feel like there could be more room for integration between the two.
    • I think it would also be nice if there was a GitHub integration that would comment on recently merged error-prone PRs, currently, we need to dig into the error to find the commit.
    • Generally, more integrations would be nice as people often forget about Airbrake when they are stressed out about an issue.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    New Relic
    • And while powerful, building tailored dashboards with organ-specific metrics (such as energy load variance across regions) can be difficult to navigate. The UI isn't as drag-and-drop easy, and query-based widgets typically involve some trial and error for non-devs.
    • Alerts may be hypersensitive or over general. I We often get a spam of non-critical alerts while doing load testing, all overhauling to me alone and making it difficult to identify actual issues especially in energy systems where spikes are very common.
    • With our expanding fleet of Iot devices, the per-host pricing model is becoming expensive, quickly. More detailed billing based on microservices, or that works at sensor level, would make it more adaptable for energy platforms.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    The only issue that we have had with New Relic is that the price might be a little expensive for smaller companies. The amount of data you store in New Relic impacts the cost, and can get away from you if you don't work closely with the vendor. Overall though the application is top notch.
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    Usability
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    I have given this much rating as I am used New Relic in different sectors and for different use cases like its K8s monitoring, infra monitoring, full stack monitoring as compare to other tools New Relic gives data in a formatted and connected way, and also it is giving us value for money. It also launches new features day by day which helps users to track the issue very quickly. It also supports OTel integrations which is the latest trend of observability tools. thats why I had given this much rating to New Relic.
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    Reliability and Availability
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
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    Performance
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.
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    Support Rating
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    The support team has been really helpful and resolved most of the issues on time. However, for a couple of issues, several follow-ups were needed to elicit a reasonable response. The issue was deeply technical and could have been investigated only by their Architects, and bringing them into the ticket took longer than needed
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    Implementation Rating
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    It's better to start by implementing New Relic in one project and test everything. Try to follow best recommended practices and read all the official documentation. Everything seems well tested. Then, start by installing agents to the rest of your projects and keep a close look to all logs and metrics New Relic gives you.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LogicMonitor
    I love to use Airbrake and New Relic in conjunction. New Relic has better metrics and data that you can really dig into (especially for optimizations), but the error part has always been kinda meh. I fee like Airbrake has done an awesome job at this
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    Data Dog has solutions that look more attractive, but not at their price point. We have also tried to build a solution straight from the Cloud, where our business is built, but some things are too hard to replicate. This shows that New Relic is useful and helps our efficiency.
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    Scalability
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    Agent deployment is easily integrated into our workflow. Adding the agent to new servers is quick and painless
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    Return on Investment
    LogicMonitor
    • Hugely reduced frontend errors in devices we don’t often test: means more conversions and sales
    • Lets us know immediately when there is an error: shorter error durations also means higher sales
    • Ultimately once we’ve solved all the most common bugs: more time for developers to focus on other things
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
    • Smoothened robots deployment.
    Incentivized
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    New Relic
    • We were able to quickly identify our most time consuming APIs. In some cases we were able to bring down times for some apis from 4s to 200ms.
    • We were able to identify our slowest database queries and optimize them for quicker response times.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Airbrake Screenshots

    Screenshot of Airbrake Account DashboardScreenshot of Deploys DashboardScreenshot of Performance DashboardScreenshot of Trends TabScreenshot of Breadcrumbs feature