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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Web Help Desk is ticketing and IT asset management software. It is designed to simplify help desk management. This solution includes built-in ticketing management, asset management, change management, and knowledge base capabilities.

    $533

    per year per user

    Pricing
    New RelicSolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    New RelicSolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—SolarWinds also offers Perpetual licensing starting at $1129 per technician.
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    Community Pulse
    New RelicSolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Considered Both Products
    New Relic
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    71 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    76 Answers
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    68 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    New RelicSolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of New Relic and SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Feature
    New Relic
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    9.2
    20 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of New Relic and SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Feature
    New Relic
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    0% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of New Relic and SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Feature
    New Relic
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    9.2
    10 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.78 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    New RelicSolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (148 ratings)
    6.8
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (14 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    New RelicSolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds WHD is well suited if you have a limited budget, as it costs less than many help desk software packages that are more full featured and modern in their design. It is not well suited to an environment where you want to manage inventory, users, purchases and tickets all in one package. It has an asset feature that we don't use but that looks quite limited. We track our assets and users separately from this.
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    Pros
    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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    SolarWinds
    • Customized reporting allows us to track our service and support better, and find where we need improvements. This allows us to constantly upgrade our service levels and keep the customers happy.
    • Detailed tracking and response to the end users have led to quicker remediation of tickets. We are able to see where we need a better response or where to add additional resources for support.
    • Overall metrics allow us to staff properly for our tickets by location and remote users.
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    Cons
    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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    SolarWinds
    • Because of AD integration, users sometimes try logging in with their email address and not AD credentials. The user then calls stating they can't put a ticket in, it would be nice if there was a method of matching the AD Email field with a login.
    • Setting up new techs with the building they are responsible for can be a little messy
    • I would like to see the UI updated. It looks old, even in the latest releases.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
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    SolarWinds
    We are definitely going to be sticking with Web Help Desk for the foreseeable future since the product is very inexpensive for the features that it provides, the integration that it has with our existing systems, and the ease for managing users, assets, locations, and tickets. Web Help Desk is a great product that is backed by even better support, which is well worth looking into if you are considering moving to a new ticketing system.
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    Usability
    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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    SolarWinds
    I give it this rating based on my experience with SNOW which I would rate lower because it is so difficult to find anything in SNOW. It might be better with more time to configure but we "had a box to check" and it met that requirement and I haven't had time to refine it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    New Relic
    there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds is a great customizable and affordable ticketing system. We use SolarWinds Web Help Desk for IT and Software
    Development trouble ticket tracking and resolution. The reporting that
    SolarWinds provides is great since it helps us discover problem areas and fix
    those areas so they don't keep reoccurring
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    SolarWinds
    Take the time to roll out a test VM to configure and make changes to before doing a live deployment, this way you don't end up with a VM that has been tweaked and re-tweaked until it's perfect and instead end up with a final, polished product. I would also recommend taking the time to read through the support forums for figuring out minor issues that may pop up, chances are that you aren't going to be the first one to encounter them. When all is said and done, SolarWinds Support is VERY responsive and you shouldn't hesitate to contact them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SolarWinds
    Web Help Desk is definitely lacking in the UI/UX department compared to most other ticketing systems I have used int he past. It's very utilitarian; however, what it lacks in UI it makes up for in extensibility and customization. The main issue that the developers need to address is the use of a Web Objects back-end.
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    Scalability
    New Relic
    Agent deployment is easily integrated into our workflow. Adding the agent to new servers is quick and painless
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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.
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    SolarWinds
    • Amazing impact on our Organization, we are much more organized since we implemented SolarWinds Web Help Desk
    • The ROI is in the statistics! The application cost pennies to run compared to what the product will do for your organization.
    • I challenge you to find a better product for the price!
    • Our documentation has improved since we implemented SolarWinds Web Help Desk
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