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New Relic Reviews

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4.5

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  • Likelihood to recommend8.34/10

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Dashboarding perfromance report capability is also good, helps us to keep on top of our applications perfromance.
Very feature rich and appreciate the ability to write custom queries against collected instrumentation data. Integration with other tools.
We've been pleased with the platform and the help we received on implementation.
Lack of default dashboard/UI to see the overall status for a group of apps/ team. No feature to turn off a alert policy from the UI, we have to start and stop individual alerts.
Upon cancellation I was charged three months fee because the product had "auto renewed" for a third year. My sales rep had told me it was a one year contract, no mention of anything auto renewing.
Even worse, pricing varies on multiple factors so it's not straightforward to predict your costs.
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Chaitanya S.

51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Great product for monitoring your services and infrastructure.

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

Amaizing insights. And the ability to drill down to the metrics when you are in a crisis is really helpful. UI is decent. Ease of plugin development

Cons

Cost. Cost. Cost. There are products out there will get the job done with much leasser price. Also the client side agent is. definately a bit resource intensive

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Daniel Mario M.

Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Good enough monitoring

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall positive, but it could be improved with better and more intuitive configuration and more flexible pricing.

Pros

I like how we can centralize and customize all our monitoring, get alerted when anything goes down, including servers, processes etc. We can also keep an eye on the performance of our web application and detect problems before they become serious. Takes a little setting up but it's very helpful.

Cons

The page where it runs often hangs and needs to be reloaded. The setup can be tricky, removing assets is also kind of complicated and not very intuitive. Seems to me a little bit pricey, I wouldn't mind a base price close to what we pay and then having the ability to add or remove assets easily and for a lower extra price. I currently keep all the testing and staging infrastructure out of this because it would cost too much to have it on.

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Srikanth D.

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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A promising product being hampered by frequent bugs and issues

Reviewed 3 years ago

Its a very promising product, but the recent issues and the frequency of those issues have ruined the overall experience. There are more false alerts than the actual alerts and the team is looking for alternate options now.

Pros

We can have a centralized monitoring of all the apps and hosts. Ability to develop custom alerts using NRQL. Helps to identify potential bottlenecks and peaks in the performance.

Cons

Frequent issues/ glitches and downtimes in NewRelic causing false alarms while monitoring. Lack of default dashboard/UI to see the overall status for a group of apps/ team. No feature to turn off a alert policy from the UI, we have to start and stop individual alerts.

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Lavish S.

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A very good tool to keep an eye over your app health.

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

It is one of the best tools to check the performance of your app. It can help you in checking the performance of different API's or can even tell that which API is making your system slower and you immediately need to optimize that. It also helps in finding out which front-end page is making your app slow by detecting the load time of that page.

Cons

Bar charts are confusion as no proper definition is given for them.

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Luis Felipe A.

Internet, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Must have to any dev team

Reviewed 4 years ago

I love it! Really useful and a must have to any team

Pros

Know what's happening on your servers, database use and external services Multiple options to reach every need you have

Cons

Can be a little hard to configure Not so simple UX

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Jonathan M.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Too many changes, too much reliance on community support

Reviewed 8 months ago

I really want to like this software, but find that they are constantly giving me reasons for concern. It may do well at feature we don't use, but is cumbersome and constantly changing.

Pros

New Relic is easy to implement and has an active community.

Cons

They are constantly changing the way the software works, deprecating features for improved features. Which is good but requires constant changes. Their documentation is often out of date because of these changed. I once found an error in their documentation as part of a support case and they asked me to update their documentation. Support is slow and not the most helpful.

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Sujeet S.

Legal Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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An excellant APM tool for monitoring your web based product

Reviewed 4 years ago

New Relic has really helped us come a long way in improving our products performance. Its APM features, Creative Dashboards, Browser data, Insights etc. are a great way to keep tab on your products performance and also, keeps you motivated to improve the performance.

Pros

Excellent on stop tool to monitor your application performance monitoring.

Cons

There is no easy way to tie up the browser traces to the corresponding APM trace or transaction

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Michael C.

Automotive, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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New Relic for Monitoring

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

I LOVE how easy New Relic is for monitoring my system performance. Specifically the Insights portion of the software. For those of us that are non-technical, it is easy to set up a custom dashboard to show me graphs of the information I need to know at a moment's notice.

Cons

I am part of the team that monitors the traffic rather than connects everything. As a result, I have zero dislikes about the software, but am not tied to the back end processes.

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Arpit S.

Computer Software,

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Powerful application monitoring tool

Reviewed 5 years ago

I have used this application to track my application status on production. It gives us a deep insight as to what is happening around with the application.

Pros

You can track your application real time using the tool. You can check the errors, load distribution, response time and almost everything that you are concerned about the application that is live on production. You can deep dive in to the sluggish SQL queries and find out the culprit. You can track your application all the way from QA environment to Production if you have integrated New relic on all those servers. It is very powerful and helps you in keeping the application in production up and running smoothly.

Cons

The price. Price is something which can be improved. It is very expensive and the evaluation period is also not sufficient.

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Jose F. G.

Internet, 51-200 employees

Used other for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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The essential diagnostics tool for your software

Reviewed 3 years ago

We use this by default on almost every new web app we deploy and switch to the pro version once we're ready to optimize the performance of the app.

Pros

I love that it helps us debug ruby on rails software down to memory and cpu usage of specific lines of code. It helps identify bottlenecks and memory overflowing code.

Cons

The only drawback to this, is that it requires a very experienced team of developers to properly diagnose and understand what's going wrong with a piece of software.

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Financial Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Performance Monitoring made easy

Reviewed 3 years ago

I would rate my experience with New Relic as very good. It's easy to setup and use with the exception of a little learning curve about all the corners where information is stored. I highly recommend New Relic.

Pros

The feature I enjoy the most about new relic is their individualize transaction monitoring from ruby threads to JVM processes. The Transaction/full system monitoring new relic offers can make any developer feel like a super hero with debugging/speeding up queries and processes or anything at all.

Cons

To me the UI can sometimes be a bit complicated where you can find information. The New Relic UI is mostly a single page application with multiple layers you have to click into. This is nice for some but sharing links is often not possible because of where you have to click to get to the same information.

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Ben D.

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Can't live without it

Reviewed 6 years ago

New Relic provides much-needed visibility and monitoring for our application's performance. With a ton of insights into how the elements of our application interact, New Relic has helped us tune the experience for our users and identify potentially disastrous issues before they become problems. Pricing is can be a challenge, though. If you have a highly distributed server model, their per-server pricing can be prohibitive. As long you fit in their model, it really can save your hide and help your business.

Pros

New Relic is a critical part of our infrastructure and has saved our hide on several occasions. Very flexible Easy to get started and use Basic server monitoring is included with application monitoring - really nice Tons of integrations If you have a problem, you will get support - it may take a while to find the right person, but you can even talk to the engineers who built the part of their service you are using.

Cons

We've had a ton of reps we've dealt with - very little continuity Though the base features are great, it's easy to spend a LOT of extra money on other features. Sometimes it feels like one of those "free-to-play" games where you are tempted to spend money at every turn.

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Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Monitoring for Applications and Systems

Reviewed 3 years ago

We like and use New Relic, but it is no longer our only monitoring solution, as we need to use several tools to hit all of the needs that it once hit on its own.

Pros

New Relic provides great insight into what our applications are doing in real time, from traffic through to code timings.

Cons

New Relic's business model has gotten in the way of their product. Several features we used daily were sunset and their replacements were hidden behind new billing models. In the time since we have started using New Relic we have paid no less, but lost several features.

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Internet, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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An Admins Dream

Reviewed 4 years ago
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The easy to use interface is one of my favorite parts, especially from administrators point of view. -From the user page, you can quickly see who has or has not accepted an invitation (those who haven't have their email *starred-out*). -On that same screen, you can see when someone was last active and understand who is/isn't utilizing the tool regularly. -Creating "teams"/"projects" in incredibly simple. -When adding new users, you see a capabilities preview which is AWESOME (and keeps me from making mistakes).

Cons

When looking at the definitions for ad-on roles, I wish they had a hover feature instead of having to click on a link that opens a new window. Not a huge complaint but it would be nice if it was all on one screen to keep from switching back and forth.

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Entertainment, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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New Relic Review

Reviewed 4 years ago
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Perfect for staying on top of your software and monitoring everything going on with your application and code. Easy setup with AWS, alerts if ever major errors, and logs all errors to specific areas of your codebase.

Cons

User permissions were a bit of an issue for us for a little while but we ended up resolving. Setup was easy for the most part, but it still took a little more time than expected.

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Mugurel C.

Used daily for 2+ years

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New Relic is a very good product if you have the budget for it.

Reviewed 5 years ago
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The strongest point of New Relic is the granularity of the information and that it's a very good fit for any Rails app.

Cons

The big issue I have with New Relic (and the one that made switch to a different provider) is that the pricing is outrageous. Unless you are with a Corporation that does not mind throwing $$$ per month on this service, the free version is barely an good.

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Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A great product

Reviewed 2 years ago

My experience with this product is amazing and I would definitely recommend it.

Pros

This product is very easy to integrate with your application and is very easily customizable as well. You can monitor the application health, latency, memory used and so much more and also customize the dashboard according to your needs.

Cons

It is a bit confusing to learn and adapt to it in the starting but once you get the hang of it, it's an amazing product.

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Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Worry Free Preformance Monitoring

Reviewed 5 years ago
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Offers nice clean visualizations on performance metrics. The intuitive UI makes it simple to drill down to a more detailed view of the recorded metrics.

Cons

Pity it doesn't offer network performance monitoring on routers, switches etc. It would be a great addition to hardware performance monitoring.

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Lukasz K.

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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New Relic -cloud concerns

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

During the time we were using NewRelic we were 100% on-prem environment so for this model, the software met out requirement. It was easy to deploy new checks.

Cons

We were migrating our infrastructure to the cloud (Microsoft Azure) and at the time New Relic could not provide us required checks from Internet, e.g. simulating session for end user to web service. Covering all cloud assets was also not possible.

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Fernando H.

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Focus on Ruby on Rails

Reviewed 6 years ago

I believe New Relic conquered its space inside the Ruby development community. I am not sure if New Relic offers the same tools available for Ruby on Rails applications in another programming languages and/or frameworks. The advent of Ruby is losing power and many developers are looking for other technology alternatives to solve their software problems.

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Jorge M.

Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Lightweight and easy

Reviewed 6 years ago

I'd been using new relic to monitor my server's performance and stability, New relic is the simplest way to do so, also I receive a weekly email that summarizes the activities in our main server which makes the job easier.

Pros

Installation time = 0

Cons

I have no cons for this product so far.

MH
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Mike H.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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NewRelic is great performance monitoring software

Reviewed 5 years ago
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NewRelic has the best tools to monitor performance on applications and servers. Their query language also allows you to create beautiful sets of data.

Cons

NewRelic's price is a bit of a stretch for a start up and should only be considered for established companies. Their error monitoring also isn't that great compared to something like Sentry.

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Rahul C.

Internet, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A necessary tool to be aware of what's going on with your APIs

Reviewed 5 years ago

I'm using New Relic to track my API performance.

Pros

Easy setup. Deep metrics and a very beautiful interface. Integrating New Relic with my NodeJs backend was as simple as adding a single line of code.

Cons

The metrics can be confusing at first but blends in once you get a hang of it.

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Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Best Devops Tool

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

Best Incident Management, regular enhancement in optimizing of tools and good server monitoring facility.

Cons

Higher cost, log management is not efficient and less user friendly.

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Accounting, 11-50 employees

Used other for 2+ years

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Terrible business practises

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

Nothing, we found the software useless and we want to cancel but can't.

Cons

We were bombarded with sales calls and signed up to a plan. The plan has auto-renewed each year without our consent. We now want to cancel the plan and they are asking us to pay leave them. The customer support is dreadful. We wait over 5 days for a response and then have to chase. Their priority is to make as much money as possible and don't care about the customer.