New Relic
Highlights
New Relic and Splunk Enterprise both provide businesses with insights into what events are occurring in their applications. New Relic is an application monitoring tool designed to monitor user behavior in web based, mobile, or desktop applications. Splunk Enterprise is a Security Information and Event Management tool that manages data and provides businesses with event logs and alerts. Notably, many businesses use both New Relic and Splunk Enterprise, and they have native integrations with each other. New Relic can take in data from applications and feed it to Splunk Enterprise to generate reports, alerts, and logs.
Features and Limitations
Though New Relic and Splunk Enterprise both have features for generating insights about application data, they have some features and limitations that are important to consider.
New Relic is focused on application monitoring. New Relic provides detailed information about user behavior in applications, allowing businesses to see how applications are performing and if they have any issues. New Relic offers some analytics features out of the box, and also contains integrations with many other tools for even more detailed analytics. Despite its powerful application monitoring features, New Relic does have some downsides, such as its complex interface that presents a learning curve for new users.
Splunk Enterprise provides alerts and event logs for businesses so they can see what people are interacting with their site or applications and how they are interacting with them. Splunk Enterprise can handle almost all data types and offers flexible filtering so users can view their data and logs however they prefer. Splunk Enterprise also provides tools for users to parse through their logs to find the events they are looking for.
For businesses looking solely for application monitoring features, New Relic is an ideal tool, while Splunk Enterprise is great for businesses trying to parse application and IT data. For businesses that need to do both, Splunk Enterprise and New Relic can be integrated to work together.
Pricing
New Relic offers an essentials pricing package for $12.50 per month that retains application data for a few days. The pro package, which costs $25.00 per month retains application data for three months.
Splunk offers a free version for single users, but most businesses will need the Splunk Enterprise package, which includes unlimited users and Splunk Enterprises full monitoring and logging features for $1800.00 per year/
Feature Set Ratings
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Centralized event and log data collection
Correlation
Event and log normalization/management
Deployment flexibility
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools
Custom dashboards and workspaces
Host and network-based intrusion detection
Data integration/API management
Behavioral analytics and baselining
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds
Response orchestration and automation
Reporting and compliance management
Incident indexing/searching
Attribute Ratings
- Splunk Enterprise is rated higher in 6 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Usability, Support Rating, Implementation Rating, Product Scalability
- New Relic and Splunk Enterprise are tied in 1 area: Availability
Likelihood to Recommend
New Relic
Splunk Enterprise
Pros
New Relic
Splunk Enterprise
Cons
New Relic
Splunk Enterprise
Pricing Details
New Relic
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Starting Price
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
