New Relic vs SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

• New Relic lets you drill down into the nitty-gritty of your application, breaking down requests however far you want in order to inspect the performance of your application throughout the request lifecycle.
• New Relic offers many integrations with other services and technologies, making it easy to get it set up and start using it.
• New Relic offers many views and types of visualizations to help you understand what's going on in as much detail as you want to know.

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• Testing web applications
• Ability to log in to secure sections of websites in order to test user authentication
• Provides a detailed history of steps taken and provides print screens of each step. If an error occurs you can see the web page to better diagnose issues.

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• Cloud-centric / OS-centric. There is no/limited ability to query metrics with an agent installed.
• Insights-based queries (dashboards and alerts) are limited to 1000 (soon to be 2000) records and that doesn't work for enterprise scale.
• NRQL is awesome -- except when it isn't. The replacement QL is more robust but is significantly more complex to learn.
• No agent management tools in the platform. And, yes, you will want agent management tools after the first dozen or so deployments.

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• The recorder is clunky and must be run on a local machine.
• It does not support frames.

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• New Relic helps us detect defects before our customers do.
• New Relic helps us prioritize performance improvements. Engineers don't need to spend time measuring the latency of transactions themselves.
• New Relic helps us notify the appropriate people rapidly when there are problems.

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• Better reporting of down states to allow for SLA reporting
• Better alerting during certain failure conditions which allows the IT org to respond faster
• More thorough history to review past errors and see screenshots of the errors.

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