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New Relic
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255 Ratings
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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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 11-50 employeesSolarWinds 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
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
Technical Lead
Hanes Brands AustralasiaRetail, 10,001+ employees
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

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 11-50 employeesCons
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.
Software Developer II
Staples Promotional ProductsRetail, 501-1000 employees
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.
Information Technology Manager
Hampden TownshipGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
New Relic
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
New Relic Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard | $991 |
---|---|
Pro | Contact sales team |
Enterprise | Contact sales team |
Telemetry Data Platform | 0.253 |
Incident Intelligence | 0.504 |
Free (Forever) | $05 |
- per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
- none
- per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
- per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
- No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
Additional Pricing Details
—SolarWinds Papertrail
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—SolarWinds Papertrail Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—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.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesSolarWinds Papertrail
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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.

Verified User
Professional in Engineering
E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesReliability and Availability
New Relic
New Relic 10.0
Based on 2 answers
we have never had any down time issues!!!
Lead Monitoring Engineer
Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Papertrail
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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.
Lead Monitoring Engineer
Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Papertrail
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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
Lead Monitoring Engineer
Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesImplementation 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.
Systems Engineer
Penton MediaInformation Services, 1001-5000 employees
SolarWinds Papertrail
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSolarWinds 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.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering
Computer Networking Company, 1-10 employeesScalability
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/
Lead Monitoring Engineer
Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Papertrail
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesSolarWinds Papertrail
- I think it is a good ROI, as it has helped us in fixing issues with our applications in many instances.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Research & Development
Internet Company, 51-200 employees