Backstage vs. New Relic vs. Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
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Backstage | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | Backstage 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/A | New 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/A | Visual 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 |
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No answers on this topic | 94% Delivers good value for the price 64 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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No answers on this topic | 97% Happy with the feature set 76 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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No answers on this topic | 95% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 55 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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No answers on this topic | 96% Implementation went as expected 68 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | Amazon CloudWatch Score7.6 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | No answers on this topic | LogicMonitor Score8.9 out of 10 | ![]() Azure DevOps Score8.1 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | No answers on this topic | ManageEngine Site24x7 Score10 out of 10 | ![]() Azure DevOps Server Score8.5 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 7.3 | 8.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.8 | - |
| Usability | - | 6.7 | - |
| Availability | - | 9.1 | - |
| Performance | - | 9.1 | - |
| Support Rating | - | 9.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.0 | - |
| Configurability | - | 7.3 | - |
| Ease of integration | - | 9.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | - | 9.1 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 8.2 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 8.2 | - |
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