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.
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Simple to use, effective to apply.
What do you like best about the product?
a grate feature was the ease of use. I used in my Node Application, it was very easy to integrate and implement in the overall application. All it took was installing the npm package and a few lines of code to add in my code base.
Another feature I loved was the user experience, it was very smooth. Every feature was easily available, while the customer support is amazing, user rarely needs it because they can explore easily on their own.
Another feature I loved was the user experience, it was very smooth. Every feature was easily available, while the customer support is amazing, user rarely needs it because they can explore easily on their own.
What do you dislike about the product?
The free tier allows very limited user to access. Makes it a bit difficult to collaborate. Also a minor flaw was logs, I tried to monitor logs but the logs were not as detailed and robust as I expected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly the product(s) used to have problems, a bad API or the server specs being not enough. This would often result in a slow app or sometimes a crash, what we needed was monitoring and observability of our entire infrastructure and application. While some cloud providers have their own tools, they are not as feature rich or there are multiple that are scattered, this eventually becomes cluttered and a mess to maintain.
New Relic helped us solve these problems by having all of the features such as logging, APM, Server Monitoring, Server health and more, all in a single platform. Since we started using New Relic, it has become much easier to debug problems, and be proactive regarding Application health and scaling.
New Relic helped us solve these problems by having all of the features such as logging, APM, Server Monitoring, Server health and more, all in a single platform. Since we started using New Relic, it has become much easier to debug problems, and be proactive regarding Application health and scaling.
Real-Time Alerts And User-Friendly Interface: A Product Analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Real time alerts, user friendly interface
What do you dislike about the product?
Supports many integrations so difficult to identify and configure the suitable one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improve compliance & risk management
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.
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.
Efficient network monitoring with robust APM and alerting capabilities
What is our primary use case?
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.
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.
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.
Offers good ability to execute queries and analyze data
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution in my company to monitor the applications' performance and do some stress tests on the application. In our company, we use the tool to monitor the core application inside the data center. In some cases, New Relic is used to monitor users' access to the applications.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to execute queries and analyze the data. For all the data, the tool has a specific function with which you can spot and mix the data or correlate the data wherever you want. It is easy to simulate and execute queries, and the availability of the data is very nice. The tool gives you a basic way to manage the data.
What needs improvement?
The product's initial setup phase is not straightforward to manage if you have no experience with installations, making it an area that can be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic for a year. My company is in partnership with New Relic.
How are customer service and support?
I think the support of the tool is a good option. I think the support of the tool. I rate the tool's support an eight and a half out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have experience with Catchpoint. With New Relic, you monitor the application from within. You monitor all the communication calls between the application and all the systems that the application needs to use, such as databases or servers. With Catchpoint, you can monitor user experience and how it interacts with the application, so we are monitoring from the outside, which is from the user to the application.
How was the initial setup?
For the product's initial setup phase, you need to have a background of doing installations. It is not a straightforward process, as you need to have more skills to do the tool's setup. The tool's setup phase is a little bit more complex but with the correct knowledge, it can still be very easy. You have to have some prior knowledge in installation to start with the tool's setup phase.
For the product's deployment phase, you need around 20 people because you need the people who do the installation and connections, along with the owner of the platform or the database, for which there is a need to create some access using New Relic. You have to do some configurations or partitions to install the agent. You need to have an expert on New Relic, as well as the user or the administrator of the infrastructure where the tool will be installed, so customizations can be done if needed.
The time required to deploy the solution depends on the amount of installations required and the architecture where the solution will be used. One agent can be deployed in maybe 30 minutes. Depending on whether you have everything in place and people know what they are doing, it may take 30 minutes to deploy the tool.
What was our ROI?
The tool can not be related to productivity. The product helps the development team that develops and makes changes in the applications. The tool helps a lot and provides a lot of information to the development teams so they do not have to do simulations. With all the information that New Relic provides, the development teams can just make decisions about the changes within the applications during the development. The tool offers information about the business process. With the tool, you can have all the information related to all the purchases from the marketplace and understand why the purchases were okay or why not, why the people that are logging in are not making any purchases, along with all the information related to the business process that are very helpful for the business.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is neither cheap nor expensive, and I believe that it is a competitively-priced tool.
What other advice do I have?
I don't know how the alerting mechanism in New Relic has improved our company's response time. I am more into the demo part, so I am not a user of the tool.
I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
Newrelic Boosts Speed and Reliability for TruckX
What do you like best about the product?
At www.TruckX.com, I’m an Engineering Lead, and we use Newrelic for real-time analytics and custom dashboards that help us see how our fleet management systems work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their plans can be quite expensive depending on the project scope.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Newrelic enables TruckX to tune up the speed and reliability of our software. It helps us make our ELD Compliance and Fleet Management services more reliable and pleasing to the customer, helping manifest the brand as the Best ELD provider on the market.
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