We performed a comparison between New Relic and BMC TrueSight Operations Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: New Relic offers better network monitoring, longer historical data retention, improved error debugging and log correlation, and better dashboard customization and access management. It also has a simpler user interface, easier setup process, and more straightforward pricing. While BMC TrueSight Operations Management has some valuable features, it needs improvement in several areas, including deeper application monitoring, better cloud monitoring, and more powerful reporting dashboards.
"Its event management capabilities are very open and flexible. I haven't seen a use case scenario with a customer that we couldn't actually solve the problem for, so it's really good. There are some interesting things that happen in an enterprise network (things that people don't normally expect), and the event management product is very flexible. You can solve problems as far as your imagination can go with it."
"We're using native monitoring capabilities for all our server hardware, for visibility for applications, for URLs, for webpage response and accuracy, and for monitoring network throughput in a lot of particular instances. We're using lightweight protocols for pinging, for DNS, for LDAP."
"The tailoring of the knowledge modules has been particularly useful as I can streamline the agents to only report on critical events."
"From an administrative standpoint, what stands out in TrueSight is the ability to implement quickly. When they have a requirement to monitor something, we're able to turn that on quickly in their environment. We're able to set up new apps within a day."
"I like the deep-dive detail and end-user metrics data. The synthetic monitor is the best one. The best point of the new one is that there's no need for configuration. You can inject the Java script and start to change major developments in the application. This is a good approach, and we received all the data using this."
"It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools"
"What I like best about BMC TrueSight Operations Management is that it allows you to do granular monitoring and improves VM load."
"We have one application, which is fairly large. In the past, we had Level 1 and 2 NOC support teams who were responsible for watching dashboards. When they saw an issue in the application, they would call Level 2 or 3 support and escalate the call, if necessary. Now, through the use of this product, we have been able to reduce the headcount by five people, as we are able to eliminate the eyes on the glass. We no longer have people watching the dashboard. We have events which are processed automatically through the system and get to the right people. We had six people in L1s, and now have one. So, we reduced five out of six headcount, which is pretty significant."
"The most important thing is that it tells us where the latency in throughput and response time are."
"New Relic's dashboard is nice, and it's reliable. It's also compatible with many services, especially Java and the Python ecosystem."
"We use it for monitoring, identifying when services go down, or when they are outside of what we would consider normal operations."
"New Relic has helped us in terms of the optimizing our print and loading times."
"What I like best about New Relic APM is its user interface because it's simple. The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is end-to-end monitoring."
"There are many valuable features in New Relic APM. We developed some software applications and we are able to monitor the errors very easily. Their log security retention is very good."
"The best feature of New Relic is its simple look and feel, making it easier to use than other tools."
"They have baseline level alerting."
"The solution is a little obsolete."
"The solution could improve its price."
"The product must provide application or service monitoring features."
"BMC's solutions for cloud monitoring (monitoring of AWS and Azure resources) are very poor in stability and customization."
"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
"Application performance management (APM) is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement. I"
"We have a unique use case because BMC typically sells this solution into enterprises that are deploying it within their IT, versus to a managed services provider like us where we're supporting thousands of customers. Multi-tenancy and the scalability have been challenges along the way, as we've grown... If anything could have gone better as we were ramping this up and adding a lot of volume to it, I would say it's the scalability. That would be one thing that could be improved."
"In our company, we faced some issues with the solution’s application endpoint, IP, and the physical location of the transactions."
"We have had issues with our agents going offline."
"New Relic APM could improve error debugging and the correlation with the logs. We are receiving some alerts or alarms but we need to correlate with the error log, but it is difficult if it is more than seven months retention period, it is hard to trace. We need this especially for getting historical information."
"One thing that we noticed was that historical information was only for a limited period, which was not helpful in certain scenarios. For example, if I want to size my system for an event for New Year or Christmas season based on the historical data, I won't be able to find the historical data. Currently, the data is limited to three months. It would be helpful if they can provide historical data for a longer duration so that we can plan our system accordingly."
"In addition, its difficult to have a predictive tool to see how the application would behave in the future when it basically only shows the historical data."
"Some of our customers see New Relic as a promising product to have, and we would like to deliver it to them. The only way we would be able to do that would be if we had server appliance for clients that we could install in their data centres."
"There has been some problem with the agent, and it is just not working well. It is not able to record information with the application server. They have been able to fix the issue, but it took quite a long time. This is the main issue in the APM products and also in New Relic. The mobile application monitoring has been pretty difficult to set up and also quite expensive. It should be a little bit easier and cheaper. Because it is pretty difficult and expensive, many customers don't take it."
"They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive."
"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."
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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 49 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". 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". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Honeycomb.io. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. New Relic report.
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