New Relic vs. Snare

Wanting to have a developer friendly application that is highly extensible to help monitor and ensure high application availability, I believe New Relic is the best in class. As teams grow and if you want all engineers to have access to New Relic the pricing can get very expensive and would require working with your account rep to try and get a contract in place that fits business needs.

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Snare provides compliance products ranging from small footprint, highly effective device, and network logging and log management tools to ID advanced infrastructure threat protection solutions. It has many valued features like activity dashboard, real-time monitoring, data import/export, dashboard creation, and many more. They all help me to improve my working skills It has been a game-changer as it saves a lot of time and I can work freely with this, and whenever I have any doubt the customer support team communicates immediately.

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• gives us an monitoring of all our underlying servers and also we can configure some alerts upon them like CPU and memory alerts.
• Kubernetes cluster monitoring with new relic for EKS gives us and minute details of our cluster utilisation like node usage, pods memory request and limits
• Network traceability for each and every request with response time analysis is great we can trace which component is responsible for generating response delay
• log managements of the logs the infrastructure is generating we can view logs through there only

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• The tools were very easy to install and it integrates seamlessly with our secure system and prevents deployment.
• Logging cooperates with our system perfectly.
• Sending events to SIEM.
• I have realised that the data collected is going to the centralised detection and prevent solution for analysis and monitoring.

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• I would like to see sort of simulator inside the user interface, that way we can send requests directly from it to test some configuration instead of setting up a test environment in our end.
• It would be nice if the data ingestion can be filtered by APM's. That way we can know which application is ingested most data.
• It would be nice if we could ingest logs (apache, system logs, and other logs) and correlate them with the APM.

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• Nothing really, it has been performing flawlessly.
• I did not run into any problems.

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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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As an engineer, New Relic has been very quick and easy for me to pick up/install/use. It has been less easy for some of the less technical-minded folks in our organization and their UI still is inconsistent multiple years after refactoring their platform to be New Relic One.

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we have never had any down time issues!!!

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there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.

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There are times I feel that the initial support is lacking. And in some cases the automated responses of not hearing anything are annoying if the reason why there has been no movement is because we are still waiting to hear back from NR support. So, i think they should loose the automation as it can seem disingenuous

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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.

• New Relic's APM is better than Datadog. Has better traces, and dashboards.
• The Apdex based alerts are accurate and work predictably even at a large scale.
• New Relic can become expensive as the volume of data ingested grows.
• Datadog has better dashboards and cross-service maps.

We selected New Relic because of better APM capabilities, and our teams ease of usage

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It's easy to scale. However, it isn't as easy to keep track of costs and who own's what/

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• New Relic has assisted to identify and solve several production issues and outages within minutes instead of hours and days.
• New Relic monitoring helped in proactive monitoring and helped to achieve better uptime and customer experience.
• New Relic APM assisted the Technology team to debug the functional and performance issues faster and hence made their work more effective.

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• It has made and positive effect on my work.
• It has saved me a lot of time for my needs.

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