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.