New Relic Reviews

This is an awesome APM, and solves a lot of the problems that were in the interactions between system components and micro services, to see how the system between the backend, middle tier, and front-end works. 

It provides diverse middle-tier Insights through the entire execution landscape and actionable data. Some give you alerts and logs, but to figure out what to do with that is New Relics strength.

The browser functionality gives view activity on the client, JS errors, in the same view as the rest of the APM allows us to solve these things quickly.

One issue is cost.

We looked into other solutions. SumoLogic does other kinds of log aggregation. Maybe Splunk. LogAnalytics. Rigor is a competitor to their Synthetic.

Because they have a lot of new functionality, to get an ROI we use an open source solution that they give us, GA monitor.

They have a price desk who can be negotiated with.

• The monitoring and alerts for servers
• Memory
• Disk space
• CPU

We use it at our clients' sites. We own all our dev servers, and then hand them off to our clients. 

Then, with our micro-services, we have basic analytics. It is super simple to set up.

If we can find a way to communicate the need to use it, we use it, but we want a way to hand it off to our clients easily. There are other solutions out there.

Just to show the response time of the app, and how much time each request spends in the tiers. Database is a tenth of a second, web takes two-tenths, and Ruby takes one-tenth.

I can tell you that there are two use cases. One is to look at how we are performing on average over time. So, assuming the systems are healthy and we look at the last month, the average response time is very good at telling us that. Let's say I add capacity, I can see it trend downwards. The other use case is pinpoint key problems happening right now. Uber called and they are saying that their Freshdesk isn’t working. We look in and can see clearly that only the database is taking 27 times longer than it should, and it helps us solve acute broken things.

It helps with current broken things and help us understand what is happening on our system overall.

It just gives us an idea for how fast were running. That cuts down to it -- how fast we're running, and if there is slowness, where it's coming from. It's really fast at telling us.

I would say that the user interface is maybe a little bit overly complicated. But I don’t have any specific way to improve it. I would say that what’s not commonly used, that are rarely used, should be less conspicuous and buried behind. Like your iPhone has one or two buttons -- if you need settings you can dig down to that stuff, but you don’t want that in your face when you take a call. Similarly, when you are in New Relic there are all these things that I need to sift through mentally. I just want to see how fast the apps are responding. You can’t change that.

I want to see the potential for Docker statistics or container statistics. Like if we start running containers, will it be able to track data for a given container. If one container serves one purpose, we need to track how many requests per day, when does the usage peek, how much does it vary week to week. And then that needs to be organized per container.

Finally, there's lot of noise on the front page that I don’t want to see. If it is customizable then it isn't obvious. Another nuance is that it always shows the wrong throughput for the most recent five minutes, and it's always wrong. The system is wrong for the most recent five minutes. They show wrong data and that changes after the five minutes is up.

We've had it for more than two years.

10/10 - it's very stable. It went down, maybe, once.

Super scalable. For us it scales for what we need. Scale means does it work as well if you have three nodes or 500, and it does. It doesn't break when you scale it up.

I don’t know. Never had a problem. Never had an issue with it. Really simple, like your microwave. Does it well so I never needed support.

This has always been our solution since we started.

We looked for a product that gives the data in a way that is easy to visualize, is reliable, and is simple.

The API response time has been a valuable feature.

This product had actually helped us in identifying peak load hours and system response to such situations. Also on Local system if we have upgraded or downgraded any API, this tool has actually given data facts in response time & that is very important.

Mobile APP's Performance Monitoring.

I have been using the solution for 2.5 Years.

No.

No.

No.

Very Good.

Very Good.

Easy.

In-House Team.

Reduced response time.

We evaluated DataDog.

This is a really awesome tool, giving you in & out of your entire backend framework in a cohesive manner. Also maintains history of data to help to find root cause of problems back in history.

The primary uses case was to monitor all the front end servers, code, and query optimization for code and DB to enhance the performance, detect and remove anomalies which cause a long time to process the functions. 

It gives us useful insights for end-users and gives more information which led us to drive the future strategy for the application for business units.

The most valuable feature is New Relic Insights.

End-user, Synthetics monitoring, Infra, and DB monitoring are very good.

Our customers are happy with the dashboard and the data that it displays and the correlation between the components.

Data retention should be increased, advanced RCA and all possible and best recommendations should be provided. 

Pricing should be revised

I have been working with New Relic APM for six months.

I have never been in contact with New Relic support.

The closest alternative is AppDynamics and the best part its On-prem module is also available. the support is not as good as the product

New-relic is easy to use and the implementation support is awesome.

The complexity of the installation depends on the environment. If the infrastructure is simple then it can discover all of the units in an hour or two. If on the other hand, the environment contains a gateway and a proxy then it might be complicated by having to open the proper ports and establish communication with the cloud portal.

We have our own team for implementation, deployment, and maintenance.

The pricing depends on the count of agents and the level.

Appdynamics

For people who are comfortable with the cloud, this is the best option and a product that I recommend. So far, our customers are all happy with it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use this for application monitoring of our product.

The solution makes it very easy to have a holistic view.

They have baseline level alerting.

There is room for improvement on the alerting, insights, and infrastructure monitoring. It provides basic level alerting, and I would like more details. 

I would also like an infrastructure network that provides real-time views, showing the issues.

Compared to their competitors, they are missing some features at the moment.

We haven't faced any stability issues.

We haven't faced any scalability issues.

They have a pretty good technical support.

The integration went smoothly with this product.

We also considered Datadog, but New Relic had better features for our use case and good support.

We don't have an AWS version right now.

It helps us organize the data from our clients and reason with it. Moreover, with the client JS API, we can report data to New Relic and query it with Insights. It is easy to use and has an understandable graph editor. 

This is the real deal.

Tracking and monitoring production is mandatory, however, we did it for years only for the back-end side. As the client-side applications grow bigger and get more complex more responsibility gets to the client. Because of that we must be able to understand if our clients are "healthy". The term "healthy" is not clear to what it means. 

Presently we report data to New Relic Insights, and we've built some really readable and understandable graphs. We monitor with those graphs every deploy to production, and we are advising the graphs to resolve current problems with our application, like errors and problems with the load and response times.

New Relic comes with some features out of the box, but not enough. There are some essential features that New Relic needs to implement that their competitors already support, like special treatment for AngularJS/React applications. We had to implement (with the JS API) the ability to query errors through Insights which is essential. Currently, we don't have a way to send alerts which is a real pain.

We are using it in conjunction with APM and Insights.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability.

We also looked at Raygun.io and TrackJs which are great products, but neither has the tri-factor, which is:

1. Tracking errors with integration to the server
2. Ability to report you own data
3. Ability to build you own custom dashboard

New Relic has a good separation between the data that you report and how you show it, along with data you get out of the box. My advice is about how to show the data in a way that it will be easy to reason with it.

You can build many different graphs, really try them all, and then decide what fits best for your organization. That's what we did. The way you handle data varies between organizations and even between teams in a organization, and the ability to show the data in different ways is very helpful with that.

New Relic always gets new things done. The system is always changing and in a good way. New features are always coming into the system and we are very happy with it.

It is easy to set up from scratch, as you don’t need resources.

Also, the response time and PHP are valuable.

From an ops standpoint, we can know and pinpoint what the problem is. We're excited by down-to-the-server performance, as this was missing before.

If they added the monitoring to the ops-server side, it would be better.

We're using it alongside Insights for about three years, and heavily for the past two years. We had logic monitor that helped us at server level.

We're moving our infrastructure to AWS, as they are integrated with it.

No issues with tech support.

It was easy.

It's easy to deploy and maintain, and all bugs can be handled.