I use New Relic for the creation of dashboards, alerts, and any type of observability resources that are relevant for my company.
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Easy to use and highly customizable observability platform
What do you like best about the product?
New Relic makes it really easy to transition to their solution since its comes with many pre-built queries and ready to use monitors through its premium interfaces. The solution is cloud-agnostic and highly compatible with various telemetry sources, which made it an ideal all-in-on ecosystem for our observability needs. We were able to utilize it to get more granular on what we spend our money on and further optimize our logs and traces. One of the stronger feature they offer is their application and performance monitoring interface (APM), which comes mostly ready-to-use with set monitors and tools to drill into discrepancies.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think one of the downside of New Relic is its pricing structure, which comprised of two components : the amount of data ingested and the number of user seats provisionned at each tier level. Altough the basic access tier come free of charge and the core tiers is pretty affordable, they do fall short when it come to usability of the more important features New Relic has to offer. The full platform access tier does provide all the functionnalities most users need, but the price increase is very substantial with this one. I would love for New Relic to come up with an alternative tier that provides a bit more than core, yet less that full platform, at an intermediate price.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New relic is solving the problem of keeping track of various monitor that comes in diverse format and from various telemetry source, and it does so all in one place and in a consistent matter. The benefit I get from the platform are end-to-end obersability, which translates to automation of alerting workflow, quicker incident response and better SLA for our services.
New Relic User Experience Review
What do you like best about the product?
Application monitoring, Alerts mechanism, Infrastructure Monitoring, Synthetic Ping monitoring are best in new relic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Response time taken to generate exported result in json are quite longer as per my experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Any infrastructure related issues, Application response time related issues can be identified and alerted to specific people very smoothly and timely.
Streamlines troubleshooting with robust dashboards but needs better alert customization
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of New Relic are the ease of creating dashboards and its integration capabilities with many external tools. It enhances operational response by providing analytics and alerts that help us address issues quicker.
Using New Relic speeds up troubleshooting and resolution, giving us a clearer picture of where issues are, thus saving time and effort.
What needs improvement?
Email alert customization is limited; it cannot be tailored much, which makes the system more rigid than optimal. The handling of logs from integration tools is not as advanced compared to other tools. AI integration, including predictive analytics, is available for certain features but is not comprehensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I find New Relic to be a stable tool. It is reliable in the aspects that I use.
How are customer service and support?
While responsive, customer service does not always provide straightforward solutions immediately. Issues that could be solved quickly sometimes take longer because they go around in circles. However, they are helpful when direct interaction is initiated.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The setup is easy for the part I'm responsible for. However, since I do not manage the complete product setup, I cannot comment on the entire process.
What was our ROI?
For our part, New Relic has provided value by speeding up issue troubleshooting and resolution, allowing for more efficient use of time.
What other advice do I have?
I rate New Relic seven out of ten.
For those looking to use New Relic, it is more suited for networking and infrastructure monitoring rather than application performance monitoring, integration, or API log handling.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
It was my application performance tracker
What do you like best about the product?
It was able to give me the best visibility over my app performance. Detailed dashboards, insightful metrics, and powerful alerting capabilities that help me identify issues quickly and resolve them even quicker are the things that I love. Having this end-to-end tracing of transactions is key for identifying performance improvements and bottlenecks.
What do you dislike about the product?
New Relic is loaded with features but what we dislike is the potentially complicated and pricey pricing structure for smaller businesses or those who do not require extensive monitoring.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic has been critical in keeping my applications healthy and performant. It has helped me to identify problems before they arise and with adequate solution, facilitated judicious use of resources, and provide a smooth user experience.
The one powerful real-time media monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
I prefer New Relic for its real-time monitoring features. In the process, it gives me a well-rounded view of how my application is performing and hopefully allows me to track down and fix any problems before they become runaway issues. The dashboards are customizable and so is the alerting which makes staying on top of your major metrics really simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
New Relic, despite having tons of features, can be difficult to learn how to use if you are brand new to the service. It can feel overwhelming to get used to all of the different tools and metrics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is the key reason that has improved the performance and reliability of my applications as a whole. To proactively track your key metrics, detect the bottlenecks and optimize your code/infrastructure leading to a better user experience.
Efficient network monitoring with robust APM and alerting capabilities
What is our primary use case?
I use New Relic for monitoring and observing the entire environment. It offers end-to-end monitoring and observability to predict potential impacts in the coming weeks. For instance, it can detect if two endpoints start consuming more bandwidth than usual, thereby providing more insights about potential impacts on the environment.
How has it helped my organization?
New Relic helps us maintain and shape the environment from a network perspective by providing end-to-end monitoring and observability. It offers insights into normal and peak behaviors, alerts us to any issues, and assists with remediation plans.
What is most valuable?
The APM feature is highly valuable as it can record session hosts, usage, and diagnose customer behaviors. Additionally, we can simulate user actions to assess the user experience. The alerting capabilities are also efficient, sending emails and desktop notifications, and providing remediation options.
What needs improvement?
The pricing could be improved as it is quite high relative to what is offered. The cost versus performance efficiency could be better. Apart from that, I don't need any specific improvements to the features themselves.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with New Relic for over one and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
New Relic is highly stable. I have never experienced an outage or any misbehavior with this solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
New Relic offers high scalability. It is quite flexible and can scale according to our needs.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team for New Relic is good. I would rate them a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before New Relic, we did not use any specific solution for observability. We used normal monitoring tools.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of New Relic is super easy and straightforward. It involves proposing the solution to the client, activating administrative users, and customizing dashboards and alerts based on customer needs. Training and preparation made the process smooth and efficient.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment typically requires two to three tier-one or tier-two team members from the technical team.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is relatively high. It can be quite costly compared to the performance efficiency, making it not very value for money, especially for smaller businesses.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated several other options like Datadog. However, after comparing prices and support, we chose New Relic.
What other advice do I have?
Do not implement New Relic until you have identified your needs and ensured that it meets your specific requirements. Proper assessment and planning are crucial.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Anomaly detection part, easily scalable but transitioning to a new user model version can be challenging
What is our primary use case?
A typical use case with New Relic, it’s an APM tool. We basically put the agent in, the agent discovers, and then we feed it onto predefined monitors with a controlled baseline. That baseline will then feed the problems that New Relic is detecting into PagerDuty. PagerDuty is our incident management tool. PagerDuty has something called Event Orchestration.
The incident that comes down from New Relic has a payload. We look at the payload, the attributes, and define rules in Event Orchestration. Let’s say the team wants to implement suppressions on alerts, some mutations, delays. They want to actually cross-engage a different team. So there are a lot of use cases that come about once we get the incident into PagerDuty from New Relic. New Relic obviously has the conditional baseline, which can be adjusted as we go along. So, that’s basically a staple activity that we perform with New Relic. Among other advanced use cases, which will take me a bit to explain here.
What is most valuable?
It’s like any other APM tool. One of the most outstanding features of any APM tool is the anomaly detection part. If there is logic that is going to detect the anomaly, with a predefined baseline that the system will produce over a period of time, for instance, a week, then keep adjusting it as you go along. That is one of the most useful cases of any APM tool that I feel.
What needs improvement?
One of the things that our enterprise actually had a challenge with was the licensing structure for New Relic. I remember there are two things that I feel are different in New Relic from Dynatrace. You have a user model version, and you wanted your clients to be on user model version two. But that’s not easy. You have to build that user structure from scratch. That was one of the downers we felt in Nutanix. And the other thing was the licensing.
The licensing structure was slightly different from Dynatrace. Dynatrace gave us a better deal, to be honest. Apart from that, I don’t feel they’re two different tools. These are the same tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for about four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. It is stable. Everyone uses SaaS platform. It never went out. There was no unplanned outage, at least that I experienced, apart from the regular maintenance windows or predefined windows by the vendor itself.
So, it has been stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It’s easily scalable because you deploy your agent. Our enterprise used to have a starter kit. The starter kit was basically an initialization of deploying the agents against our OpenShift. We had Kubernetes running under OpenShift. So there was a starter kit that deployed it. I didn’t feel anything really difficult with the implementation of the starter kit. So it was pretty okay.
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten because nothing is perfect.
How are customer service and support?
We regularly used to meet with the success manager, and there were technical people as well. We had at least once a month office hours with them. And then on an ad hoc basis, if we needed them, we used to engage them.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used Dyntrace, GCP and Prometheus. Dynatrace has a little bit more edge, not from the product technicality point of view, but purely from the way I think the licensing scheme is modeled. The product behaves a little more easily compared to New Relic.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy and straightforward.
Dynatrace is a little more complicated than New Relic, but New Relic was easier to deal with.
I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy and one being difficult. It is not that difficult to setup.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing model was more expensive compared to competitors because of the way they were defining their user structure; there was full-stack observability and less than full-stack observability.
There’s no advantage to having anything less than full stack observability because once you get people on board with an APM tool, they would like to know as much as possible about what the agent can discover.
If the agent is able to discover and you’re not giving anybody full-stack observability, it’s like you’re treating your product like Lego. The more you buy, the more expensive it gets. If you want to make it into any bigger construction, you gotta pay more. So that was a downer.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate it a seven out of ten because of the licensing issue.
At this point, Dynatrace is doing better than New Relic.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Monitor applications, error logs, and Azure Kubernetes
What is our primary use case?
It is used to monitor applications, error logs, and Azure Kubernetes. We have used this as a self-hosted service in Kubernetes. We are not using it as an agent-based service. We self-hosted this New Relic on Kubernetes and maintained it as a service.
What is most valuable?
It can be integrated with PagerDuty and ServiceNow, which can auto-generate alerts and incidents and assign them to the concerned team. The dashboards can also be customized. We can also check the trends over the past year or so.
What needs improvement?
It helps prevent issues but does not cause losses. The error messages and deep insights may help us find the root cause and resolve the issue.
It could be bit better. We are looking at sorting the error loss by date, keyword, or something similar and grouping the logs with some keywords, like error.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the stability an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't got any issues, so I should get support from a New Relic technical team. We hosted this on our own, and even though this is a self-hosted service, we are managing it.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is simple. We are using the Relic Chart deployment on Kubernetes, but it can be done in an hour and should not take longer.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We just got a license for self-hosting and have set it up to do this.
What other advice do I have?
Some add-ons have been integrated. You can integrate with New Relic to get deeper insights into the logs.
I have worked on two monitoring tools: New Relic and OpeRant. In addition, I used Azure Monitor. It's completely different, monitoring only the infrastructure, not the applications. We need to know application insights about querying and everything, but it's more user-friendly.
Overall, I rate an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Extremely powerful, supported with well maintained documentation
What do you like best about the product?
NRQL, New Relic's customer query language, forms a fundamental layer of the platform that sets it above the competitors from our perspective. The competition try to state that NRQL has a steep learning curve that makes usage harder, however there are many ways that New Relic overcome that: strong documentation, samples throughout the platform, and even AI that can generate NRQL queries for you.
The agents are trivial to install and set up, with the documentation being well maintained. New Relic have a strong commitment to Open Telemetry, helping customers avoid vendor lock-in.
The agents are trivial to install and set up, with the documentation being well maintained. New Relic have a strong commitment to Open Telemetry, helping customers avoid vendor lock-in.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are attempts in New Relic to use AI-like tools to understand the root cause of incidents in complex interconnected systems, but frankly we've never found this to be effective, so while it can highlight all the various issues occurring it does not seem able to pin point which issues are the cause and which are the symptoms. We've had to build up custom dashboards and tooling to fill this gap.
New Relic's price model allows free users to access custom dashboards for free, but puts a paywall around showing the same data in New Relic's own views. This pushes cost-sensitive customers to duplicate New Relic views in dashboards, which makes an overhead and reduces usability.
New Relic's price model allows free users to access custom dashboards for free, but puts a paywall around showing the same data in New Relic's own views. This pushes cost-sensitive customers to duplicate New Relic views in dashboards, which makes an overhead and reduces usability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic gives us the "single pane of glass" to understand all out platforms, across multiple data centres in the cloud and on-premise. The collation of data into one platform significantly reduces MTTR by helping us broaden everyone's awareness of their neighbour systems and opening up prior black boxes.
I use this to check dashboards of our streaming players performances at Dazn
What do you like best about the product?
I like the creation of different dashboards for the different use cases that Dazn has. I like how easy is to create queries, and how I can integrate the queries property into our codebase. I also like how I can create different dashboards for the different features I want to monitor so everything can be organised by topic and by team.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the graphs could be better more informative and more up to date with industry standards, they lack details and the design I think is outdated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can see how well our Video Player performs in the different countries, new relic is very useful when filtering by custom properties, but also by country, cdn, asset id, etc.
We combine this along side Conviva reporting, and this double observability gives us the best wider view of our application.
We combine this along side Conviva reporting, and this double observability gives us the best wider view of our application.
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