We performed a comparison between New Relic and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: New Relic is preferred over Instana Dynamic APM due to its versatile features, accurate alert mechanisms, end-to-end monitoring, consistent customer service and support, and straightforward pricing. Instana Dynamic APM is praised for its real-time data generation and fast implementation, but lacks certain features and anomaly detection based on AI. New Relic is a stable and reliable solution with a simple user interface, making it easier to use than other tools.
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"It is a stable solution."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Every time there is a crisis, high traffic, or if we see a problem with a server, we go to New Relic and monitor it to determine the cause."
"New features are added often."
"We use it for monitoring, identifying when services go down, or when they are outside of what we would consider normal operations."
"The solution is good for sending alerts, drawing graphs about system usage, and creating plug-ins."
"The deep insights, which will give you the metrics (not a high level), so we can build out at the database level where the bottleneck is. This has been pretty helpful."
"We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."
"The most valuable feature is the New Relic APM module to deep-dive into the application, to get bottlenecks to the surface, and to improve application performance. Also, the New Relic Insights module creates a real-time dashboard on application performance to create awareness for the DevOps team."
"We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"They don't have an opportunity to share the dashboard with the public. If you want to share it with stakeholders or people outside the organization who just want to have a look at a couple of metrics, you can't do that without onboarding them to the product itself."
"They need to improve the alerting and dashboarding as these are the key features in DevOps."
"The scalability can be improved."
"New Relic is very slow, and the app is a bit frustrating to use, which is something that has been happening a lot in the past year. During the last six months, I have noticed that it has become extremely laggy."
"The product has good documentation for Linux, however, their documentation for Windows is lacking substantially. It's something they need to develop."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The connectivity between legacy and newer cloud applications is not great."
"Compared to their competitors, they are missing some features at the moment."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of New Relic writes "Has a simple user interface and end-to-end monitoring and self-healing features". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic Observability, IBM Application Performance Management and Datadog, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Honeycomb.io. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. New Relic report.
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