New Relic vs Fomo

ManageEngine Applications Manager

Site24x7

Datadog

Applications Manager is an application performance monitoring and observability solution that is designed to empower businesses with deep insights into the performance, health, and availability of their critical applications and infrastructure components.

Site24x7 is a monitoring solution for DevOps and IT operations for troubleshooting applications, servers and network infrastructure

Datadog is a monitoring and security platform for Dev, Sec, and Ops teams that unifies metrics, traces, and logs in one place so teams can get full visibility into their IT environment.

Monitor app performance with New Relic APM. Gain real-time insights, resolve issues proactively, and enhance user satisfaction.

Alerts/Notifications

Monitoring

Reporting/Analytics

Root Cause Analysis

Event Logs

Data Visualization

Uptime Reporting

Access Controls/Permissions

Some users report that New Relic’s free tier is generous for small projects, but reviewers indicate the free version is limited and upgrading is costly. Some reviewers find the pricing complex, and they say costs escalate with usage.

Value for money

By industry, New Relic reviewers are most commonly professionals in computer software (35%). The most frequent use case for New Relic cited by reviewers is server monitoring (60% of reviewers).

Open Source

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Dynatrace

PagerDuty

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High and complex pricing

Project Manager

Set-up can be tricky sometimes for determined services, and also, it can become quickly expensive if you need more than the free tier, which can make it difficult for SMB's to adopt it.

Senior staff engineer

I least liked about New Relic is its pricing structure, which can be complex to understand and may become expensive as my monitoring needs grow.

60% of reviewers feel negative about New Relic’s pricing. Some users say the cost is prohibitively high, especially for small businesses, startups, or teams with many servers. Reviewers indicate that the pricing model is complex, often based on the number of servers or containers, making it difficult to predict expenses as needs grow. Many users report frustration with features being locked behind expensive paywalls and find the licensing structure confusing. Some reviewers feel that the overall value does not justify the high price, particularly when compared to alternative solutions.

Comprehensive real-time monitoring

Software Engineer

You can integrate New Relic to your application written in almost any language for monitoring it.

Web Developer

It's been really helpful using New Relic to monitor our websites and servers.

100% of reviewers feel positive about New Relic’s monitoring capabilities. Reviewers indicate that they value the ability to monitor their entire technology stack in real time, from backend servers to frontend applications. They appreciate having centralized dashboards, proactive alerts, and customizable data visualizations, which help them quickly identify issues and maintain system health. Some users say the platform’s integration with various tools and languages makes it versatile for diverse environments. Many users find that having all monitoring data in one place simplifies troubleshooting and supports their efforts to ensure a seamless user experience.

Performance optimization insights

88% of reviewers feel positive about New Relic’s performance and speed features. Some users report that the platform provides detailed visibility into application and server performance, allowing them to identify bottlenecks and optimize processes efficiently. Reviewers appreciate real-time analytics, easy-to-use dashboards, and the ability to monitor key metrics like response times and error rates. They find that these insights help prioritize development efforts and improve overall system reliability. Many users say that the tool’s profiling and debugging capabilities are valuable for maintaining high performance in production environments.

Site Reliability Engineer

It offers comprehensive observability across applications, infrastructure, and synthetics, enabling quick detection and resolution of performance issues.

Director of Cyber Security

New Relic, a cloud-based observability platform providing a comprehensive view of application performance, has expanded its reach to become a strategic ally in cybersecurity.

Product Manager

It is easy to identify problems with performance or load and quickly get to the root cause or at least a step in the right direction to help solve your problem with your infrastructure.

Accountant

There are so many metrics, that the interface can feel overwhelming and it takes time for me to seek the information I need for accounting.

From early anomaly detection and threat identification to vulnerability management, it has enabled our security team to implement more effective preventive measures.

Senior Software Engineer

Now when scaling and for enterprise, datadog feels more connected when a trace is easier to filter on behaviours, logs, graphs, etc.

DevOps Engineer

It has capacity to monitor massive amount of data.

I like the fact that it can give very good insights into application performance through real-time monitoring and detailed metrics.

With New Relic, I was able to drill down into the root cause, discovering that it was due to a database query that needed optimization.

Occasional Lag: Rare delays in metrics during high load.

Program Support I

The only thing that I don't like about New Relic, at least from what we have in my current company, is the limit on the amount of data that it displays.

engineer

Need to have more documentation around Nerdgraphs and Mutations.

Lot of widgets available for different visualizations.

These features empower businesses to gain deep insights into application performance, troubleshoot issues efficiently, optimize performance, and enhance user experience.

IT Manager

It really can cover the capabilities of multiple other products.

Easy NRQL to to get data and prepare dashboards and view logs.

In our organization we are monitoring nearly about 1000 servers.

New Relic has been very helpful in tracking saturation reports as well as errors.

Director of IT

Some of the monitoring options are hard to setup.

Product owner

New relic has many features for active monitoring and getting access is pretty easy.

I would say that overall, New Relic has been a significant piece of software for our company, given that we manage a mobile app.

New Relic has been invaluable in bolstering our company's security posture.

I found it very hard and complicated to get started without training.

Head Of Development

Very easy to setup and get installed, either directly using the agent or via Docker.

Engineering Manager

Newrelic is a really good tool I can have a lot of metrics in a easy way, but this is so expensive

There is nothing I don't like about New Relic now. But initially, during setup, it was a bit complicated.

Senior Experience specialist

New relic provides good KPIs 1) 4xx , 5xx and response time in application 2) CPU and memory usage in infrastructure 3) Mobile app crash and http error rate4) Browser performance metrics5) synthetic test availability

Full Stack Developer

I use the realtime app monitoring (APM) the most, to see current traffic as well as checking for slow apis and why they are slow.

QA and Observability Engineer

Pricing and user Licence model, every year it's changing his pricing model and usage model  

I felt it was easier to setup than with datadog.

the complexity of setting up and configuring the tool for legacy applications.

Founder

I went from having no APM solution to having a full-fledged monitoring system in mere minutes.

It has a great interface to debug server-side performance issues.2. Since it runs on your server you get accurate real-user page load times.3.

Application Performance management helps developers to know where they have to focus in the system to make the system more efficient, reliable and scalable.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Log aggregation capabilities were not very enhanced.

Our understanding is that NewRelic did their best to revamp their product but they are suffering from 10 years of product additions/modifications and most likely the only way to resolve that would be for them to start a brand new product from scratch or acquire a smaller player in the space who gets it.

Happy with the product overall and it has a good user interface and easy to use

It is giving me useful insights about my product in real time

Senior Software Engineer 

It’s got lots of features that enterprise companies are begging for.

We had to install the MySQL agent manually, and the step-by-step guide was outdated.

Application Developer

You can monitor the application health, latency, memory used and so much more and also customize the dashboard according to your needs.

It could be frustrating to log in trying to resolve an issue and have to struggle to find the information in a new layout.

Its Python agent has many memory leaks which lead to resource hogging.2.

Technical Lead

Some of the UI could be improved compared to the competitors to display information.

Performance and Speed

Pricing

Ease of Use

Developer Experience

Security and Access Control

Metrics

Data Insights

Performance Insights

Setup

Freelancers

Small Business

Mid-size Business

Large Enterprises

Some users report that New Relic offers a generous free tier with useful features for small projects, but reviewers indicate that the free version is limited and upgrading quickly becomes expensive, especially for growing businesses or those with many servers. Some reviewers find the pricing model complex and difficult to predict, with costs escalating as usage increases or more features are needed. Reviewers appreciate the platform’s robust functionality, but they say many features are locked behind higher-priced plans, making it less accessible for startups and small teams. Some users say they see value if their infrastructure is complex.

Lucky Orange

Lucky Orange is an all-in-one conversion optimization suite that helps website owners identify drop-offs in the conversion process using dynamic heatmaps, visitor recordings, form analytics, live chat, and polls

New Relic is the all-in-one web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. It provides code-level diagnostics for production apps deployed on several infrastructures. It has a SaaS platform that enables its partners to build plugins using open API's.

Fomo is a cloud-based, no-code social proof marketing automation solution for websites which aims to foster credibility and increase conversion rates by displaying recent customer activity to website visitors. The software offers a range of native app integrations in addition to a developer API.

A/B Testing

Geotargeting

Fomo

Mixpanel

Ahrefs

Hotjar

Shogun

Starter

Business

Advanced

We are using Fomo for our online retailer over a year.

Owner

You don't have to be a developer to integrate it, but you do need to dig into the code a little more. And many integrations require development knowledge through APIs. If you just need simple social proof, you don't need to dig into all that though.

I also love that it offers options for integrating with virtually any website or online system. And the onboarding is very slick.

Technology Team Lead 

It has the flexibility to do what we need for each of our websites and enough options to even keep our designer happy, which is no small feat with anything out of the box.

It's the perfect way to build trust and show credibility to your visitors and show credibility.

Marketing Consultant

Simple templates which work really nicely like "41 Financial Advisors are viewing this page now" worked really well for the use cases I had.

Have no numbers on  the impact to sales I achieved at my launch, but I can truly recommend fomo and will also use it for further product launches and freebies.

I think the notifications worked, the templates were quirky and gave me some unusual ideas to play with.

System Administrator

We tested a number of other social proof and fomo apps but none of them had the number of features that FOMO has.

I do love the variety of saisonal layouts of the notifications and I could adapt everything very easy to my needs.

Frankly - I also liked how the templates looked straight away out of the box, they didn't require much customisation to look great.

Director

I get the lay out but sometimes when setting something up I find myself checking loads of pages to find the next step.

Their customer service team is also super friendly & always happy to help.

Digital Consultant

Works well, it's fast, totally customizable and the support is amazing, always prompt to help and resolve any issue.

For the integration in my website  I needed the help of my web admin.

Highly recommend it if you sell products on your website!

FOMO is one of the originals, and they do what they do very well.

marketing manager

FOMO takes my Facebook ads campaign to a completely new level

Executive Director

It’s made a big difference to our company and provided invaluable social proof.

Owner Operator

Integration was quick and loaded with options

I wish the pop up was more customizable - there only a few options / colour schemes / layouts available.

A little tricky to get it all working properly.

Managing Director

During the first weeks of Covid it was important to show other customers that people were buying of us by way of FOMO pop ups

Love that you can measure performance/see conversions tied to click-thru from Fomo

I have tried other similar tools and Fomo was by far the most flexible and easy to set up.

We were also incredibly impressed with the support team at FOMO.

The interface can be tricky and there’s other competition that have more useful features and easier interfaces

I used fomo for the first time and I am really excited how easy and reliable it all worked.

Web Manager

We implemented this software several months ago and really like the impact that is has had on our new customers.

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