Optimizing performance with New Relic
Updated July 03, 2025
Optimizing performance with New Relic

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with New Relic
I have been using New Relic for last 2.5years, and I have used it for different purposes like Infrastructure monitoring, APM Monitoring, Browser Monitoring, Mobile monitoring and etc. I have seen so many good features of New Relic as compare to other observability tools. It works on the MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces) data to provide the observability solutions as per our requirement. I have used it in different types of business requirements like for complete session tracking and its errors, for applications and its infrastructure downtime status. It has features like alerts, service levels, dashboards, synthetic monitors, etc. which helps us to track the issues of our application environment before they occurred with with real users. They also recently launched few more features like transaction 360, eAPM, Agent Control, pipeline control, cloud cost intelligence, Intelligence Response, Security Rx etc. which helps in various domains like finops through telling us the cloud cost and its utilization, Security of our infra and applications through Security Rx which captures vulnerability of Applications and infrastructure, Intelligence response which helps to easily tell the root cause analysis of alerts or any errors which helps us to reduce the MTTD and MTTR, etc.
Pros
- It's recently launched features pipeline control which gives us full control of our data like how much data we want to send to New Relic it has filteration in two levels one is at our environment, that is gateway control and another is in New Relic env, that is cloud control. I personally like this feature.
- Its observability as a code feature like through the help of terraform we can create New Relic resources like alerts, service levels, dashboards, drop rules, parsing rules, workloads etc. and also we can integrate major clouds also through terraform.
- The custom visualization feature of New Relic, through the help of this, we can create custom dashboards based on React.
Cons
- Sometimes I have seen some glitches in data like some amount of data is missing so they can work on it.
- Yes, it always gives us positive impact like if I have some issues in my application or if I need to update any resources for security concerns so it always helped me beforehand for those.
Yes, we can do full stack observability in New Relic. I have implemented this and also regarding performance of cloud we can do that as well through the help of MELT data available in New Relic. For example I am using any host and it is going to be Out of Memory or over CPU utilization so New Relic alerts me beforehand that this issue will occur.
Yes, through the helps of its cloud resources data and cloud cost intelligence we can easily identified the under utilized resources that need to scale down or any resource which is not being utilized so we can shut down that resources. New Relic helps us to identify these types of resources through this we can reduce our cloud cost.
Yes, we got benefited from this. For example, if you are managing any infra and you have integrated it with New Relic and also you have settled up alerts, service levels, dashboards etc, then New Relic will tell you everything about your infra like what is going to be down and which resources are over utilized and also it helps us to track the health of CI/CD pipelines.
- Dynatrace, Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch and Azure Monitor
Because of its easy to use, its good features, value for money.
Do you think New Relic delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with New Relic's feature set?
Yes
Did New Relic live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of New Relic go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy New Relic again?
Yes

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