New Relic Reviews

I have used CloudWatch and Data Dog. I appreciate CloudWatch because it's native to the cloud. Spin up resources and your data is collected without having to do anything. However, the UI is lacking in areas and getting alerting in place can be a challenge. It's likely that the AWS provider for Terraform could simplify the creation of monitors, but then there's also the next step of configuring alerting via email and Slack, both of which are simple to do in New Relic.

My use of Data Dog is limited as the team I worked with was in the process of transitioning away from Data Dog to New Relic when I joined them. In my limited exposure, I find that Data Dog seemed to have many of the same features that New Relic provides but I didn't use them long enough to make a determination on how they stack up against each other.

Dynatrace is better when it comes to installation and use. Installing the Dynatrace agent is a very simple process. After the installation dependence map is created automatically, the tool starts gathering data and creates its own alerts, baselines, based on metrics. For me as a user, Dynatrace was much easier to use, considering almost zero additional configuration is needed.

I prefer New Relic over Datadog. I like their dashboard and I'm used to how it works in general. The price for Datadog is lower though, which makes the company consider it from time to time.

We're currently looking nto Microsoft Application Insight. I think Application Insights is much more powerful and easy to use since it gives us the opportunity to add logging and tracing in code. It also gives the opportunity to show realtime load (CPU, RAM, etc).

We have looked through dozens of vendors and software solution companies to find the right set of features and then we have verified them to see which one fits our organizational needs. The result was to go with New Relic which has the richest set of functionalities. The solutions which are built on open-source platforms were not suitable for our purposes.

We use both Datadog and New Relic in our apps. We find that New Relic provides better dashboards and drill-down into issues, while Datadog is a useful place to aggregate metrics and trigger alarms for on-call developers.

New relic let's us have transportation over the entire network infrastructure, which is a very important feature which makes new relic stand out. It provides an extensive monitoring experience, wherein we can compare multiple applications unlike the other tools.

We had originally looked into CloudWatch to monitor our resources since we have our stack built in AWS, but found that it would take additional work to setup the dashboards, alerts, and details that we wanted to see in our reports. It was worth the additional investment for us to get the data we needed with less work.

I tried AppNetta, Capterra, and a few similar commercial tools when evaluating APM solutions, but NewRelic is so well integrated with so many services and pieces of software that it would have taken a lot more time to implement and support another solution. New Relic worked out great, and we haven't looked back since.

Pricing was the primary factor. The cost associated with New Relic works better within a budget line than either of their competitors.

New Relic is more robust and has more dialed-in alerts.

Although not in the list, Google Stackdriver is also in the competitive landscape for New Relic.

We assessed all 3 of the alternatives above. We found AppDynamics to be the superior product, but with a price tag aligned with that superiority. Datadog was the best infrastructure-focused platform. AppOptics was too new to the game when we did the assessment.

As our Architects like to preach, don't find a product and then build your functional and technical requirements, build your requirements and then find the product that matches. New Relic offers a very nice blend of infrastructure, APM, web, and other services in a single user interface. I would definitely use them again.

I have not tried any alternatives to New Relic.

Dynatrace was not as easy and solid as New Relic for the first implementation of the APM. We had more issues and we had to spend more time to setup the initial environment. New Relic also has more integrations with existing languages, frameworks, and CMS, and it has a great 24/7 online support that we didn't find in Dynatrace.

New Relic is more affordable for infrastructure monitoring and had a more mature app monitoring suite (but data dog is catching up). Data dog has better predictive analytics and DB monitoring.

I was using CA Wily before New Relic. Wily is difficult to configure. Requires an application to be installed. Wily provided just basic details and it required a deep analysis to find the issue. Dashboards were also not easy to build.

New Relic destroys Datadog hands down. The platform is tremendously more powerful and the support is excellent (compared to DD's horrible support).

Stackify's pricing was quite a bit better than New Relic, however on the whole New Relic had more features overall that benefitted our team. Overall though however, Stackify is worth checking out, they are improving their application over time and adding more features. It's possible that over time Stackify could surpass New Relic depending on their road map.

We're still evaluating both.

AppDynamics is very similar to New Relic, and is probably the only product we evaluated that was competitive. There wasn't a clear winner between these two; we ultimately stayed with New Relic because AppDynamic's support wasn't incredibly impressive, and it didn't seem to have additional data that would provide any extra value. It was a good product, just wasn't worth making the switch.

New Relic is very good at monitoring and alerting. I prefer Splunk or Kibana for logging. Datadog is good at aggregating stats and triggering alerts. New Relic provides the best monitoring solution out-of-the-box, minimal setup and configuration is needed to start immediately using and getting benefits.

New Relic is more powerful for all apps together, specially if you manage and optimize different platforms for several clients.

Along with New Relic, our engineering and SRE teams also use PagerDuty for setting up alerts, Datadog for APM and AWS CloudWatch for infrastructure level monitoring on AWS.

AWS CloudWatch is available as a service if you use AWS. We use Datadog for things similar to New Relic. A feature of Datadog that I have not seen in New Relic is its ability to visualize across applications and show dependencies of an application across the system. That dashboard is very useful.