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New Relic vs SolarWinds Papertrail

New Relic
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20 Ratings

New Relic

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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 255 reviews and ratings

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SolarWinds Papertrail

20 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 20 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • SolarWinds Papertrail is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

8.5

New Relic

85%
111 Ratings
9.1

SolarWinds Papertrail

91%
7 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

7.3

New Relic

73%
10 Ratings

SolarWinds Papertrail

N/A
0 Ratings

Usability

5.7

New Relic

57%
5 Ratings
9.1

SolarWinds Papertrail

91%
1 Rating

Availability

10.0

New Relic

100%
2 Ratings

SolarWinds Papertrail

N/A
0 Ratings

Performance

8.0

New Relic

80%
2 Ratings

SolarWinds Papertrail

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

7.6

New Relic

76%
7 Ratings
9.1

SolarWinds Papertrail

91%
1 Rating

Implementation Rating

6.7

New Relic

67%
9 Ratings

SolarWinds Papertrail

N/A
0 Ratings

Product Scalability

8.0

New Relic

80%
1 Rating

SolarWinds Papertrail

N/A
0 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

New Relic

I think New Relic's APM is a great feature if you are running Ruby on Rails because ActiveRecord can abstract away the actual performance of your endpoint logic. It very easily allows you to identify endpoints that are taking too long, endpoints that have good throughput, and how the overall functionality is affecting the end-user experience. It also has many other monitoring features that can be great for companies that manage their own infrastructure.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

SolarWinds Papertrail is very well suited for use in a test environment due to how fast and easy it is to set up, and it just works. I always tell colleagues to use this when they're running a scenario, or trying to troubleshoot an issue as it really helps in getting it done quickly.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

New Relic

  • Monitor traffic rates and server usage on real time
  • Helps engineers to dive deep into an issue and guides them to the root cause
  • Provides high-level system health status of different components (ie. Server capacity, RPM, page load time, error rate..)
  • Near real time reporting
  • Links with deployment so easy to understand if an issue has occurred after a particular release

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Meraz Haque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Meraz Haque
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SolarWinds Papertrail

  • Free configuration on how Papertrail will alert you
  • Easy to setup with your server/application
  • Very intuitive and easy to use
  • Fair pricing policy/plan

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

New Relic

  • It would be helpful if use cases for particularly a Windows installation, were provided to help determine which set of configuration files would be the one a group would want to control. I.e. potentially with a department trying to do DevOps, it's difficult to determine which team needs to have responsibility for what at times. The reason I mention this, is New Relic seems to in many ways be a tool that's useful for DevOps-related processes and staff.
  • On the main New Relic One site, sometimes a refresh option is available for new features. It would be helpful to see what the new features are in advance before trying this out. Particularly if doing a demo or a working season with another team.
  • I'm not aware of a page or specific site which describes/summarizes all of the different NR Products and their features.
  • Sometimes it's tricky to determine which product to use to accomplish a task.

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Jim Locke, ITIL v3F, ITIL RCV | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

  • We were not provided any "canned" searches to begin our evaluation with.
  • Other competing products have a set of "canned" searches to get you started quickly.

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Scott McGee | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

New Relic

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0

New Relic Editions & Modules

Edition
Standard$991
ProContact sales team
EnterpriseContact sales team
Telemetry Data Platform0.253
Incident Intelligence0.504
Free (Forever)$05
  1. per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
  2. none
  3. per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
  4. per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
  5. No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
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SolarWinds Papertrail

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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SolarWinds Papertrail Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Likelihood to Renew

New Relic

New Relic 7.3
Based on 10 answers
I have not yet found any similar product that offers me this range of features to help us keep our online service fast and reliable. Besides this, New Relic is constantly evolving by adding new plugins to emerging technologies and platforms. Server performance measuring features are a key point as our user database grows.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

No score
No answers yet
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Usability

New Relic

New Relic 5.7
Based on 5 answers
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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

SolarWinds Papertrail 9.1
Based on 1 answer
It's extremely easy to use. I and new colleagues have never had any issues configuring this tool or setting it up, it works almost out of the box with very simple instructions to follow to configure it to our own environment. I would highly recommend it on that ability alone.

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Reliability and Availability

New Relic

New Relic 10.0
Based on 2 answers
we have never had any down time issues!!!

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Jayson E. Conry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jayson E. Conry
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SolarWinds Papertrail

No score
No answers yet
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Performance

New Relic

New Relic 8.0
Based on 2 answers
there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.

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Jayson E. Conry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jayson E. Conry
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SolarWinds Papertrail

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

New Relic

New Relic 7.6
Based on 7 answers
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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Jayson E. Conry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jayson E. Conry
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SolarWinds Papertrail

SolarWinds Papertrail 9.1
Based on 1 answer
I honestly have never had the need to use the support team, as we have not run into any issues so far. If we did however, judging from how the tool itself works, I don't doubt that the team would provide excellent support for any issues that we may possibly run into.

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Implementation Rating

New Relic

New Relic 6.7
Based on 9 answers
The documentation was clear and concise; the only issue we ran into was custom application naming. Due to HTTPD mod_fcgid and the need for the application name to be set in php.ini (not in .htaccess or the virtual host directive) ... we had issues setting this up.

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Travis Crowder | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

No score
No answers yet
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Alternatives Considered

New Relic

We selected New Relic since it was very dynamic and versatile to use. It works well in all aspects of monitoring, and observability and would allow having a focus on collaboration with different repeatable processes. Also, New Relic has a good focus on working well with CLI, UI, and API types of work.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

We have used other services such as Coralogix before but love SolarWinds Papertrail for its ease of use and not-too-bloated features. This also makes our engineers and other staff use it more often.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Scalability

New Relic

New Relic 8.0
Based on 1 answer
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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Jayson E. Conry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jayson E. Conry
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SolarWinds Papertrail

No score
No answers yet
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Return on Investment

New Relic

  • Gives us great visibility into what our services are doing at all times.
  • Alerts us quickly when there is a problem so we can address it with alacrity.
  • Gives us extremely customizable options in regards to how we want to track, store, and materialize our data.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds Papertrail

  • I think it is a good ROI, as it has helped us in fixing issues with our applications in many instances.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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