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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Backstage

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABackstage is an open source framework for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to microservices and infrastructure and enables product teams to ship code quickly without compromising autonomy.

    $0

    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

    Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio App Center was a solution used to build, test, release, and monitor mobile and desktop apps, as well as to continuously monitor real-time performance. The product was discontinued in March 2025, and is no longer available.

    $40

    per month per build concurrency

    Pricing
    BackstageNew RelicVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Builds
    $40
    per month per build concurrency
    Standard Test Plan
    $99
    per month per build concurrency
    Enterprise Test Plan
    $499
    per month per build concurrency
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BackstageNew RelicVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Multiple Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    91%
    Would buy again
    71 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    68 Answers
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    User Ratings
    BackstageNew RelicVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (148 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    BackstageNew RelicVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    Backstage is well suited in building developer portal or developer platform. It can be easily customized as well, so different companies can use it based on their own situation. It currently focus more on frontend, but I can see there is already a roadmap for improving backend with some core modules. After that has been introduced, it will become really powerful and save developers time to solve common problems.
    Incentivized
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Honestly, it's an all around solution that needs some enhancements. Need to build an app, check! Need to test that app, check! Need to debug that app, check! Visual Studio App Center is a well rounded platform for multiple types of builds and services.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • developer portal
    • easy to onboard
    • easy to extend
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • It supplies the right native integration for test cases both IOS and Android
    • Constant device updates means you are working with the right builds to support product use cases
    • Excels in automated test cases that are easy to implement, monitor, and digest results
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • it may provide more modules that can solve common problems
    Incentivized
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Webview support was lacking
    • User management seems a bit disconnected from the standard Microsoft ecosystem. Almost feels like you are managing local users and sharing access more than an enterprise solution
    • Price could be better
    • Buggy on some of the latest versions of windows
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Usability
    Open Source
    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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    Discontinued Products
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Open Source
    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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    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    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
    Open Source
    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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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    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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    Discontinued Products
    The biggest benefit is in integrations and plug-ins, as well as the fact that it's not open source. I know open source is popular, but we have all been on the downside of open source and waiting for things to be voted up or a contribution to fix an issue. This alone makes VSAC a nice solution! Plus, it comes with a complete IDE integration of services, documentation, and is light weight
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    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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    Discontinued Products
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • It speeds up our progress on building our own developer portal
    • It's free to use so very little investment
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Cut down on time to delivery enhancements and overall builds to users
    • Helps test new proposed releases with ease
    • Cuts down on local build issues as it does do a good job with local development environments as well
    Incentivized
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