New Relic: the Observability Platform
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Exceptional Visibility and Real-Time Insights with New Relic
What do you like best about the product?
New Relic provides exceptional visibility into application performance with an intuitive UI and powerful dashboards. I like how easy it is to identify bottlenecks, trace issues to specific services, and get actionable insights in real time. It genuinely helps improve system reliability and developer productivity.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a slight learning curve when exploring advanced capabilities, and some settings feel complex initially. However, once you understand the structure, it becomes very powerful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic solves the complexity of monitoring microservices, tracing requests across services, and identifying bottlenecks in real time. It helps us detect slow transactions, memory/CPU spikes, and root causes of performance issues far more quickly than manual debugging. With powerful dashboards, alerts, and APM visibility, it reduces MTTR, prevents customer-impacting incidents, and improves overall application stability and team productivity.
Comprehensive Observability with Real-Time Insights
What do you like best about the product?
I like New Relic for the level of visibility it provides across the entire stack. It integrates application performance, logs, traces, and infrastructure metrics into one unified view, making it easy to understand how different components interact. The distributed tracing feature is particularly useful because it allows me to follow a request across multiple services, speeding up troubleshooting significantly. I also appreciate the alerting and dashboards, which are flexible and easy to customize, helping teams stay proactive instead of reactive.
What do you dislike about the product?
What could be improved in New Relic is the overall complexity of the platform—there’s a learning curve, especially when setting up custom dashboards, alerts, or distributed tracing for large microservice environments. Some features feel a bit scattered across different sections, which can make navigation less intuitive. In addition, the pricing can become high as data ingestion grows, so more flexible or predictable pricing models would make it easier to scale without constantly worrying about cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use New Relic to monitor application performance, track errors, and understand system behavior in real time. It helps me identify bottlenecks, resolve issues faster, and catch anomalies early. Dashboards and alerts keep our services stable and reliable.
Streamlined Log Management with Advanced Insights
What do you like best about the product?
I like New Relic's powerful, centralized visibility across logs and system performance in a single dashboard. The real-time search and filter capabilities make troubleshooting fast and efficient. I appreciate the reliable alerting and notification system, which helps catch issues proactively before they escalate. The intuitive UI and customizable dashboards provide detailed insights into application and infrastructure behavior. Overall, it simplifies monitoring, improves response time during incidents, and gives confidence in system stability.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the main areas for improvement is cost, especially as log volume and data ingestion grow—it can become expensive at scale. Sometimes the query language and advanced configurations have a learning curve, which can slow down new users initially. We’ve also noticed that log ingestion latency can occasionally impact real-time debugging during peak loads. Additionally, while the UI is powerful, it can feel slightly overwhelming due to the number of features and options available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use New Relic for centralizing logs from multiple servers, making real-time log analysis easy. It speeds up troubleshooting, reduces downtime, and improves system observability. It provides proactive alerts, enhances operational efficiency, and eliminates guesswork from debugging.
Improved incident detection has reduced response times and supports better customer agreements
What is our primary use case?
New Relic is primarily used for log monitoring, where queries on the logs provide insights and create log-based metrics for all alerting-related requirements. The focus is mainly on alerting and dashboards.
How has it helped my organization?
New Relic helped with the mean time to detection, the MTDD metric tracked for applications. For the platform, the detection capability enabled a reduction from around 20 to 30 minutes down to three minutes. This has been really helpful in terms of detecting issues as well as helping to triage and troubleshoot issues faster, creating a positive impact on the organization.
What is most valuable?
One of the best features that New Relic offers is the user interface, which is much easier to use compared to other products such as Datadog or Splunk. The team management and alert configuration process is also fairly straightforward. New Relic is very useful for teams that don't have much of a dedicated DevOps team but want to have observability for their platform, and it's an easy way to get started.
One of the main UI features is the ability to see a particular frequency, such as an error or a high amount of logs at a particular timestamp, and easily filter that via the graph as well as the timestamps that can be configured. This is relatively easy to use compared to other products.
What needs improvement?
New Relic is priced on the higher side. Because of the pricing model, organizations have experienced uncontrolled costs and were not able to afford New Relic, which resulted in moving to open-source solutions such as Grafana and Loki. This pricing structure has been the main pain point experienced with New Relic.
For how long have I used the solution?
New Relic has been used for the past two years.
What was our ROI?
One of the metrics that helped as a return on investment was the ability to detect issues faster and troubleshoot more quickly, which in turn helped to achieve a much better service level agreement with customers.
What other advice do I have?
Pricing is primarily an area of concern. The overall rating for New Relic is eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Unified Observability Platform That Elevates Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
New Relic offers a genuinely unified observability experience by combining APM, logs, metrics, traces, and infrastructure monitoring within one platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
As data ingestion increases, costs can rise quickly, which makes it challenging to accurately predict budgets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic helps us address the core challenges of monitoring complex, distributed applications by giving us full visibility across services, infrastructure, logs, and user experience in one place.
Comprehensive Observability and Real-Time Insights Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
New Relic stands out for its comprehensive observability capabilities and intuitive user interface. The platform provides deep insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and user experience, all in one place. I particularly appreciate its real-time monitoring and alerting, which helps teams detect and resolve issues before they impact end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
While New Relic offers powerful observability features, there are a few areas that could be improved. The pricing model can become expensive for organizations with high data volumes or multiple users, as costs scale quickly with ingestion and retention. Additionally, data retention beyond the default period often incurs extra charges, which can be limiting for teams that need long-term historical analysis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic helps solve the challenge of end-to-end visibility across complex application environments. In modern distributed systems, it’s easy for performance issues to go unnoticed until they impact users. New Relic addresses this by providing real-time monitoring, distributed tracing, and detailed error analytics, which allow us to quickly identify bottlenecks and resolve issues before they escalate.
Reliable Observability with Deep Insights
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about New Relic is its unified observability platform. Bringing together application performance metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards in a single location makes it much easier to quickly spot issues and gain a comprehensive understanding of system behavior. The real-time insights, along with customizable dashboards, greatly enhance both debugging and the overall efficiency of monitoring.
What do you dislike about the product?
The primary downside is the complexity that comes with the initial setup and configuration. Because the platform offers such a wide range of features and options, it can require considerable time to fully understand and tailor it to your specific environment. Furthermore, some of the more advanced capabilities may seem daunting to newcomers, especially if they do not have adequate guidance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic has been instrumental in addressing our visibility and performance monitoring needs across various applications and services. By bringing together metrics, logs, traces, and alerts within one unified platform, it greatly simplifies the process of identifying bottlenecks and diagnosing production issues more quickly. This comprehensive view has enabled us to better understand the overall health of our systems. As a result, we have seen a notable reduction in debugging time, enhanced the stability of our releases, and become more proactive in tackling performance issues.
Exceptional Monitoring and Analytics for Enhanced Performance
What do you like best about the product?
My overall experience with New Relic has been highly positive. The platform provides robust monitoring tools, user-friendly dashboards, and insightful analytics that have truly contributed to enhancing application performance and reliability. I value the intuitive design of most of the interface, and the comprehensive data available has made troubleshooting both quicker and more precise.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main complaint is that certain aspects of the interface can be somewhat clunky, and the pricing has a tendency to increase more quickly than anticipated, depending on how much you use it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The level of detail available is great when you need to troubleshoot an issue. At times, the sheer amount of information can be a bit overwhelming, and there is certainly a learning curve at first. However, once you become familiar with it, the tool proves to be extremely useful.
Comprehensive Dashboards and APM Telemetry Elevate Performance Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Dashboards, APM telemetry and in depth analysis of services and performance. Alerts are set up and triggering is also another good thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes false alerts are triggered causing chaos.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New Relic helps me spot performance issues quickly and understand what’s slowing things down. The benefit is smoother apps, less downtime, and more confidence that users get a reliable experience. New Relic takes the guesswork out of tracking performance by showing exactly where issues start. It helps reduce downtime, speeds up troubleshooting, and keeps customers happy with smoother experiences.
Intuitive UI and Effortless Navigation
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand UI. Navigation in portal is easy
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficulty in integrating for Windows IIS Services
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New RElic is helping check Critical application Server Utilization and take action basis suggestions. It helps to setup alerts basis threshold decide. Helping us take necessary action. We have integrated this in PWA as well to check page load time and other performance metrics
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