New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided.
Director - Operations at FranConnect LLC
Reliable, good support, and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "The stability of New Relic APM is very good."
- "New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided."
What needs improvement?
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic APM for approximately six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of New Relic APM is very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of New Relic APM is good. We have not had any issue with scalability when we use different types of loads, it worked very well.
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How are customer service and support?
The technical support from New Relic APM is very good.
What was our ROI?
The ROI from using New Relic APM is good.
What other advice do I have?
I rate New Relic APM an eight out of ten.
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Database Administrator at a music company with 51-200 employees
Good drill-down functionality let us see through to SQL code, and it integrates well with Slack
Pros and Cons
- "We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."
- "There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
What is our primary use case?
We were using New Relic Synthetics to test our application, which retrieved data from the web on a daily basis. Our second use case was that it helped us to isolate any bad code.
You put the hooks in for the website as a database, and you can drill down into all of the offending code. You can even go down into the SQL. We were running an Oracle database and I was the DBA, so the SQL level was my responsibility.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature was drill-downs. I was able to use it to drill-down into the SQL, get the response time, as well as the allocation based on IO, CPU, and the other resources attached to the SQL queries.
We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right.
What needs improvement?
There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search. Certain things like this would have helped me a little bit.
For how long have I used the solution?
We used New Relic Synthetics for at least a year, up until the end of 2019.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's a stable solution and we never had a problem with it.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to New Relic, we were using some Oracle tools such as AWR. Although they were useful, they were not really proactive. New Relic is a more proactive tool, as it were.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved in the initial setup, but it was done in-house by one person. It took at least half a week to complete it. This included setting up the service, and Slack integration. It took a nice amount of time, in total.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I loved this product, but we can no longer afford it, so we dropped it.
What other advice do I have?
Honestly, at first, I was very hesitant about using this product. My advice is to learn to use it and learn all of the features because it has many of them, not all of which are documented, but they work wonders. For us, they really helped a lot.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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CTO and VP R&D at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It gives us the visibility that we need in monitoring
Pros and Cons
- "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."
- "I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for monitoring the CPU, memory, services, email rates, etc.
How has it helped my organization?
We monitor the Internet daily, or every few days. Then, 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.
What is most valuable?
- The APM
- Monitoring
- The capabilities which allow you to easily see whatever you are looking for.
What needs improvement?
- I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues.
- I would like more deep dive monitoring into services and being able to install it on some apps.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable. We don't have any issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good. We have a few thousand servers, and it is up and down based on the traffic and need. We have New Relic on all of our servers.
How is customer service and technical support?
We don't use the technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment was quite easy.
We have it integrated mostly with our physical servers.
What was our ROI?
The product saves time and money.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
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.
The pricing could be better. We did not purchase the full version. Maybe if we applied all the other features of the full version of New Relic, we could get all the features that we feel are missing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
In addition to New Relic, we evaluated Monitis and Dynatrace. We chose New Relic because it was cheaper for us as a startup, and it is also faster and more user-friendly.
What other advice do I have?
Go with it. It is a good product. It gives us the visibility that we need in monitoring.
The AWS version is easier to deploy than the on-premise version.
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Information Technology Director at Ontegrity
It allows us to perform threshold testing to see how quickly transactions are getting out to customers, providing us with data such as response time and adequacy.
What is most valuable?
We used it more heavily before Synthetics came, but it’s kind of like Synthetics, but used domestically.
It allows us to perform threshold testing to see how quickly transactions are getting out to customers, providing us with data such as response time and adequacy.
Our software does significant data queries, so we throttle performance according to region just to keep the application up. Now we can open it up completely because of New Relic tools.
Ability to quickly identify different browser usage performance issues across our application functions. Again saves time in coding to enhance the end user experience.
How has it helped my organization?
It enables us to fine-tune our application quicker. It's also better if we find issues in our application than if our customers find it.
It also prevents performance issues because we're able to see potential issues before they cause real problems.
What needs improvement?
I can't recommend any improvements to Browser. I really can’t find anything that I don’t like about these apps.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Deployment was very simple.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We've encountered no issues with stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scaling has not been a problem.
How is customer service and technical support?
I've not had to use technical support.
How was the initial setup?
We had no problems setting it up.
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Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Although it isn’t as expressive as SQL, we're able to implement a solution that uses New Relic's API to provide data so the project manager can query it using NRQL.
What is most valuable?
It's schema-less and unconstrained to queries. And although NRQL isn’t as expressive as SQL, we're able to implement a solution that uses New Relic's API to provide data so the project manager can query it using NRQL.
They announced that they’re expanding a GUI to make NRQL even less technical.
How has it helped my organization?
Helped us understand that we had a professional group of our users that we didn’t even know about.
It identified mechanized behavior (e.g. bots) and then blocked them.
What needs improvement?
Raw transaction didn’t give us data that we needed. We needed user information so we needed to supply the data with an API.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It’s built to stay up. We starting sending a ton of data to them. They were able to deal with it on their end given their internal architecture. We had a marketing partnership with them.
How are customer service and technical support?
It’s responsive. When I have had questions, we used the forum. As a big customer, we get a response within a few hours.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Our CTO came back from a conference last year and we were trying to solve a problem using DynamoDB, S3 and Redis (trying to solve the user segmentation question and analyze user behavior). Within a few hours of implementing the API, I was able to query for what we needed. You could do a lot with elastic search, but that needs a team of three people.
How was the initial setup?
No complexity. Just an API call.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
They charge by the number of events and for the retention.
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Cloud Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It has been helpful for our developers when they are tracking down issues
Pros and Cons
- "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."
- "New Relic has helped us in terms of the optimizing our print and loading times."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for application performance monitoring. It helps us to track down the bottlenecks in the application, whether it is in the database or the front-end. It is helpful for our developers when they are tracking down issues.
How has it helped my organization?
We are concerned about our application's print and load times. It should be faster for the end user's experience. New Relic has helped us in terms of the optimizing our print and loading times.
It has solved many of our performance issues.
What is most valuable?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
Three to five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is good. We haven't had any issues with New Relic. We load test for about 10,000 users accessing the application for every five minutes. This is our use case, and New Relic was used to monitor how the application is performing.
We use SaaS, so we don't really manage New Relic in any of the boxes.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good, because it is already running on AWS.
How is customer service and technical support?
We have not used technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment was very easy.
We have plans to integrate with other products going forward.
What was our ROI?
It has saved on our developers' time when digging into performance issues.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing model is a little confusing for beginners. They find it a little expensive, and if you are using it already, then that is not good.
Purchasing from the AWS Marketplace is very straightforward. When you buy it from AWS Marketplace, you can go with both options: URL SSL license and On Demand. So, when you are building, it is part of AWS, and this is convenient for end users.
We deploy everything on AWS. Purchasing the product on AWS Marketplace made it easier for us.
The pricing is okay comparatively their competitors. The only concern was whether it should be purchased on demand or bring your own license, and which way passes some savings onto the end customers.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated a couple of other vendors: AppDynamics and Datadog. They were quite a few other players as well, but we are happy with New Relic because it is simple to use and the developers can use it in their development.
What other advice do I have?
Evaluate it, because it supports almost all the popular run times. Most of the popular languages support this, like Java. So, it makes it adaptable and easy to use.
I work predominantly on AWS.
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Systems Engineer at GRIFFIN Solutions Group
It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously
Pros and Cons
- "It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously."
- "Server uptime is its most valuable feature."
- "We have had issues with our agents going offline."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for server monitoring and strictly for our EC2 instances.
How has it helped my organization?
It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously.
It fulfills the need that we had for the product.
What is most valuable?
Server uptime is its most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
We have had issues with our agents going offline.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability has been fine.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Our environment has 25 servers.
How is customer service and technical support?
The help from the technical support has always been good.
How was the initial setup?
We have to install an agent on each of our instances.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
New Relic was the main product that we looked at.
What other advice do I have?
If you are looking for this specific type of application to keep a record of your inventory, then it does exactly what it is supposed to do.
We use their cloud version of it.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We utilize the APM, BROWSER, and INSIGHTS dashboards on a daily basis.
How has it helped my organization?
The New Relic toolset has become part of our SDLC -- reviewing the changes we made for impact to the production environment. It's been a valuable asset to identify areas for improvement in our application.
What is most valuable?
We utilize the APM, BROWSER, and INSIGHTS dashboards on a daily basis to monitor the health and performance of our application.
What needs improvement?
We really love the INSIGHTS query and dashboarding capabilities. It would be great to see this expand even further with more options for querying.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
None at all.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
No.
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
10 -- New Relic has been very responsive and helpful when we've had to contact them.... and it was mostly about 'how do I do xxx' and not related to product problems.
Technical Support:
10/10
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No.
How was the initial setup?
Very easy -- install the agent and reload the dashboard!
What about the implementation team?
In-house
What was our ROI?
Improved product performance and customer satisfaction.
What other advice do I have?
Don't be hesitant to reach out to New Relic in the pre-sales process to ask questions for help.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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