We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and New Relic based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is praised for its lower cost, better integration with Microsoft technologies, and its ability to monitor cloud resources across multiple subscriptions. Although New Relic is easy to use and provides in-depth application information, it is criticized for its pricing structure and lack of network monitoring features. Azure Monitor also offers valuable resources for new users with customizable templates and best practices from Microsoft. Overall, Azure Monitor is regarded as a strong and dependable product that offers excellent value for its cost.
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"It allows the restriction of privileges and control of users."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is the dashboard, New Relic Insights. I configured my own dashboard to monitor certain parameters."
"We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."
"The synthetics, alerts, and native inbuilt capabilities for monitoring the cloud with the New Relic agents have been helpful."
"End-user Synthetics and monitoring are very good."
"The service maps that it creates, the health maps that it creates, the insights that it provides, etc., are all quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic is its ease of use."
"The solution is good for sending alerts, drawing graphs about system usage, and creating plug-ins."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"They need to improve the alerting and dashboarding as these are the key features in DevOps."
"The solution only supports the cloud platform and not on-premises."
"The scalability can be improved."
"Some AIOps are missing in New Relic APS, and I would like to see more features in this area."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The price could improve."
"The connectivity between legacy and newer cloud applications is not great."
"The customization of the start and end time is kind of cool."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Elastic Observability, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Sentry. See our Azure Monitor vs. New Relic report.
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