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New Relic vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

New Relic
Ranking in AIOps
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
157
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), Network Monitoring Software (6th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (5th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (4th)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in AIOps
13th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (15th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), Critical Event Management (CEM) (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Iqbal Khowaja - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 22, 2022
Has a simple user interface and end-to-end monitoring and self-healing features
My organization uses many application performance management solutions, such as AppDynamics, New Relic APM, Splunk, and Datadog. I'm the CTO for the state of Hawaii, and across the board, different departments use different APM tools. I'm using the latest version of New Relic APM, but I cannot recall the exact version. My company has a dozen engineers using and monitoring New Relic APM. I'd tell anyone planning to use New Relic APM that it has to fit what you have. For example, most of my company's payload is in AWS, and the tool has adopters and features that CloudWatch cannot provide. Still, New Relic APM can, so you should do a demo or trial run first and see if it's a tool that'll help you with end-to-end monitoring. New Relic APM is working well for my company, so an excellent way to start is to do a trial run to see how the tool works out for your current applications. My rating for the tool is nine out of ten because my experience with it has been great. New Relic also worked closely with my company and has always been upfront on what's available and what's not. My company is a New Relic APM customer.
Ashish  Paikrao - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 8, 2023
Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure
We were exploring ManageEngine ServiceDesk. So, we need a feature where we can, like, when an alert triggers, we should alert the recipient by on-call. So, when an alert is detected, a ticket is generated in the management team, and we want to notify them on-call. Like, this ticket has been generated and stuff. So, I would like to see a similar feature in this solution. This is why we want an alternative to PagerDuty. We want an alternative to PagerDuty. So we are getting on-call notifications using PagerDuty, but now we want to replace PagerDuty with ManageEngine ServiceDesk. So whenever some incident happens in the cloud infrastructure, we get data alerts from cloud security. We want to integrate a service that will provide us with notifications on-call. That this server is down, or this website is down, or this thing is going wrong. Another area of improvement is integration. It cannot be integrated with our upgraded Jira system. That's why we are dropping PagerDuty. We won't continue using it due to integration issues.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly."
"It offers helpful user metrics so we can learn more about the user experience."
"The versatility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The breakdown of the response time of different components and getting in-depth details of the slow component are the most valuable features. It is easy to use, and it gets the job done."
"It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously."
"The solution is scalable, and it is easy because all the documentation is available."
"It gives insights to non-technical people about what technical issues are most important, how much it impacts customers, and potentially, where we should be targeting our development teams when they have time."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to execute queries and analyze the data."
"The solution's most valuable features are that it adds each alert as a service, has good scheduling capabilities, and includes the ability to write logic based on texts."
"The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable."
"PagerDuty's notification process is the most valuable feature."
"A cool feature is that it helps us to understand the flow of the alert. If the alert was coming to the current on-call and he didn't catch the call or didn't notice it for any reason, it starts being escalated automatically, according to the escalation schedule, or to other teammates. You can see the flow very easily on your phone or via the website, if you want to do a post-mortem."
"The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls."
"The initial setup is a simple process."
"PagerDuty's best features are the dedicated application that allows me to reach my engineers immediately and the ability to directly assign specific tasks to individuals and have them report back."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
 

Cons

"I haven't come across any features that are lacking."
"It is very difficult to award the service level cycles at an endpoint level."
"We would like a dashboard feature to be created for this product. This would allow us to monitor both the front and back-end of our UIs performance, and then report on it."
"I would like to have storage monitoring. E.g., being able to monitor SANS, specifically protocols, like NFS and CIFS metrics."
"I would like the ability to set up certain dummy accounts and do the actual things that the customer is doing, without impacting the production environment."
"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."
"It is complicated, especially in how you interpret the data that it provides. If it had a bit more canned, out-of-the-box features, especially some of the reporting features, that would be more useful."
"The connectivity between legacy and newer cloud applications is not great."
"The solution does not code all alerts correctly so sometimes you get false positives or multiple alerts for the same issue."
"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."
"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."
"The user interface could be more intuitive."
"I would like the UI to be more intuitive. I would like to be able to group or color-code the discoveries. When you create a system, you have a listing of all the different configurations. You can list them by teams, but some additional color coding would be helpful. I would break it down by incident controls. In other words, it should be broken down it into response teams and engineering divisions."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"PagerDuty's webhooks need some improvement."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If it’s the right tool, it doesn’t matter what it costs because you’re going to get it back many-fold from your productivity."
"Pricing is better with New Relic APM than Dynatrace."
"This is an expensive tool."
"This solution required a license and it is better than some other competitors."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy. The product is easy to deploy and manage, which is why our company purchased through the AWS Marketplace."
"They gave us aggressive discounts when they were brought in for the first time, but they have also kept them for the year-on-year renewals, which has been absolutely fine."
"It would be nice if we could buy it annually instead of monthly."
"Because of budget, we are not using the mobile app part of this tool."
"The cost is based on the package you select."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The price is very high."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
43%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What do you like most about New Relic Insights?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?
It helps prevent issues but does not cause losses. The error messages and deep insights may help us find the root cause and resolve the issue. It could be bit better. We are looking at sorting the ...
What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The price is very high. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The license for stakeholders is very limited.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
It is difficult to send underlying trace files or statuses using PagerDuty. You can set up email alerts, but you cannot build any triggers using those email alerts. There are limitations; you canno...
 

Also Known As

New Relic Browser, New Relic Applied Intelligence, New Relic Insights, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Servers, New Relic APM
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

World Fuel Services, Verizon, FootLocker, McDonald's, Trainline, Mondia Media, Confused, Costa Coffee, Ryanair, Marks & Spencer, William Hill, Delivery Hero, Skyscanner, BASF, DAZN, Veygo, Virtuo, movingimage, talabat, Australia Post, Tokopedia, Seven Network, Virgin Australia, Zomato, BigBasket, Mercado Libre, Lending Club
40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast
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