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Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Simple to deploy and good support but needs a better dashboard
Pros and Cons
  • "It has a simple initial setup."
  • "The browser isn't exactly reliable."

What is most valuable?

The APM is great.

The solution can scale well. 

We've found support to be helpful.

It has a simple initial setup. 

What needs improvement?

The browser isn't exactly reliable. 

There are dashboard issues that need to be dealt with. 

There's no proper management of roles and divisions. For example, let's say if I create a dashboard and I want to give access only to a set of people and not to the other set of people, I can't do that, and that's where it has a lot of problems. If I develop a dashboard for myself, everyone else has an access to it. There's no proper access management. You just add someone to the platform, he gets access to all the dashboards. Yet there should be proper division of people who need to have access to a certain dashboard. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

While the APM is stable, the browser itself isn't too reliable. 

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's a scalable, reliable solution. 

We have 30 to 40 people working on the solution generally.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is quite good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The solution is very simple to set up. I'd rate the entire implementation and deployment experience a five out of five. 

What was our ROI?

I've not witnessed any ROI. That's beyond my scope. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I'm not aware of the exact licensing cost. The contracts are handled at an organizational level. 

What other advice do I have?

We have a partnership with New Relic.

I'd advise potential new users to go through the docs first. They have very good documentation. Anybody who's going to start should first start with reading the documentation in order to get a good understanding of the product.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. I'd rate it higher if the browser rate was more reliable. 

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Sr.Engineer csit Quality Assurance at Verizon
Real User
A stable solution that provides good UI monitoring functionality
Pros and Cons
  • "We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution to provide insight into how the UI is performing.

What is most valuable?

We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time.

What needs improvement?

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.

We would also like the solution to increase the details that are provided when there are system abnormalities.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have found this to be an overall stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have found the cloud-based version of this product to be scalable.

How are customer service and support?

We use an in-house support team for this solution. They are our first-line contact point to resolve any issues that arise on a day-to-day basis.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were previously using a different, comparable solution. However, we decided to switch to this product as it provided lower response times.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Other
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Technical Lead with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
The product has good dashboards, scalability, and environments
Pros and Cons
  • "We detect issues using dashboards that we built on New Relic."
  • "The APIs could be better. I would also like more APIs and features to integrate with streaming solutions, like Kinesis or Kafka."

What is our primary use case?

We use New Relic for monitoring and alerts. 

How has it helped my organization?

We detect issues using dashboards that we built on New Relic. For example, if our drivers are taking too long to get rides, we usually detect the problem using New Relic dashboards.

What is most valuable?

The user experience with dashboards and the machine learning features are its most valuable features. The dashboards are useful for BI and fraud detection, if implemented the right way.

What needs improvement?

The APIs could be better. I would also like more APIs and features to integrate with streaming solutions, like Kinesis or Kafka.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good. Because it is calibrated for SaaS, it is transparent for us.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good because it is SaaS.

How is customer service and technical support?

The technical support is good.

How was the initial setup?

The integration and configuration was good for our containers and LAN disks.

What was our ROI?

The detection piece of it brings us a big return on investment.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Splunk and Dynatrace are the alternatives in the market. New Relic is the solution that our company purchased.

I have used another product at my company called Dynatrace. Though, I think New Relic is better because its dashboard is more intuitive for users. I use Dynatrace at my company because we have a partnership with them.

What other advice do I have?

New Relic is the best choice because the product has good dashboards, scalability, and environments.

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Sr. Hybris Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
The Insights module creates a real-time dashboard on application performance to create awareness for the DevOps team.
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the New Relic APM module to deep-dive into the application, to get bottlenecks to the surface, and to improve application performance. Also, the New Relic Insights module creates a real-time dashboard on application performance to create awareness for the DevOps team."
  • "They need to improve the alerting and dashboarding as these are the key features in DevOps."

Improvements to My Organization

With the help of New Relic APM, we managed to deliver an online B2B application with average response times below two seconds, where with v6, the average response times was about 30 seconds.

Valuable Features

The most valuable feature is the New Relic APM module to deep-dive into the application, to get bottlenecks to the surface, and to improve application performance. Also, the New Relic Insights module creates a real-time dashboard on application performance to create awareness for the DevOps team.

Room for Improvement

They need to improve the alerting and dashboarding as these are the key features in DevOps.

Stability Issues

Once we had stability issues when the New Relic agent was overwhelming the IIS process, but that was a long time ago. We spoke to New Relic, and they delivered an agent to fix the problem.

Scalability Issues

We've not had any issues scaling it. We work with Java, and the agent is easily implemented.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

Many times, they have been of great help even though support is in America and we are in Europe; we get help within eight hours.

Technical Support:

The support department has good technical knowledge and is customer-friendly. Even if you don't answer their follow-up questions, the issue is resolved.

Initial Setup

The setup is really straightforward. Install a server agent on the operation system, and install an application agent in the application.

Implementation Team

We developed in-house and also maintain the developed application.

ROI

I don't have actual numbers, but as we improved the quality of the application, we received less incidences compared to applications without New Relic.

Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing

New Relic is either free with low retention and minimal functionalities, or expensive with full options and retention. I suggest a pricing between.

Other Solutions Considered

We did investigate other software, such as Ruxit and AppDynamics, but the price and quality of New Relic made us choose New Relic.

Other Advice

I think all online applications need to have APM software implemented to actually knów the performance state of the application.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate
Real User
Good monitoring capability helps to fine-tune performance and identify problems
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
  • "They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive."

What is our primary use case?

We were using New Relic to build performance, application monitoring, security aspects, infrastructure, exporting from databases, lower-performance tips, and trying to identify deadlocks.

How has it helped my organization?

Yes. However we dropped due to not able to achieve RoI due to high cost

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is application monitoring.

What needs improvement?

The main reason we switched away from New Relic is that the cost is too high. They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive.

I would like to see the capacity planning improved.

The security standard and compliance are areas that should be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

We had been using New Relic APM for a few years and have now switched to DataDog.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There is no question about this product's stability. It is very good and I would continue to use it, but the price has caused the organization to move on to the DataDog solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

New Relic is a scalable solution. I have between 10 and 15 large customers who use it.

How are customer service and support?

I have never been in contact with technical support. I am comfortable with using the product.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have switched away from New Relic and have begun to use DataDog.

How was the initial setup?

This is a cloud-based solution that doesn't need to be installed.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This is an expensive tool.

What other advice do I have?

This is one of the best tools that I have used. I have recommended it to customers in the past and would continue to do so. In summary, this is a very good product and the only real problem is that the cost is on the higher side.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

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Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Stable and scalable but does not provide input regarding page performance
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is quite stable."
  • "The solution does not provide input on how the page performs in a big group. It just says that the page performance is bad, but it does not say what can be done to improve it. If they could provide some insight or guidance on how to make improvements, that would be a big help."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution to optimize web pages and to track user behavior.

What is most valuable?

The solution's most valuable aspects are that it tracks java better and operates very efficiently.

What needs improvement?

The solution does not provide input on how the page performs in a big group. It just says that the page performance is bad, but it does not say what can be done to improve it. If they could provide some insight or guidance on how to make improvements, that would be a big help.

The solution could adjust the pricing to make the costs more reasonable.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for three months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is quite stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. We have about 15 people using it currently. They're mostly developers and managers and we all use the product daily.

How are customer service and technical support?

The solution offers 24/7 support and they are quite efficient.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We didn't previously use a different solution.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very straightforward. Deployment took about a week. It doesn't require more than three people to deploy and maintain the solution.

What about the implementation team?

We had a vendor partner assist us with the implementation.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is quite expensive. It costs around $5,000 a month. There aren't any additional costs above that.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

There were other options that were considered, but I was not a part of the decision making process.

What other advice do I have?

The solution is a cloud-based software.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten.

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CTO at Elo7
Real User
The infrastructure of New Relic is very stable, and it works well
Pros and Cons
  • "Sometimes, I monitor the user's time of response and use this information to improve the number of servers on the back-end. Or, I can use it to change my back log for front-end developers and improve their response times. It's very important in this case because I can improve the experience of the final user."

    What is our primary use case?

    I use the product for monitoring many types of metrics, e.g., availability and comparing numbers in relation to products. I evaluate the response time of servers and the product to determine the health of the servers.

    How has it helped my organization?

    Sometimes, I monitor the user's time of response and use this information to improve the number of servers on the back-end. Or, I can use it to change my back log for front-end developers and improve their response times. It's very important in this case because I can improve the experience of the final user.

    What is most valuable?

    Time of response for back-end and front-end (user) requests.

    What needs improvement?

    There is a picture which goes to your browser and it monitors requests from other users. However, it's impossible to use now because the price is very high. The feature is very nice, but I tried it during the trial period, and the current price makes it impossible to use.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    More than five years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    The infrastructure of New Relic is very stable, and it works well.

    How was the initial setup?

    We are using AWS Cloud, and I integrated New Relic with our software, was very simple. It is easy to use the New Relic product, and it is not a hard connection between AWS Cloud and it.

    What was our ROI?

    The return of investment is very good.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    New Relic browsers are very expensive.

    I recommend using the free version of New Relic. If you like the free version and understand its importance for your company, you can move to the trial. Then, you can migrate to the paid version.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    I have tried other competitors of New Relic, but the other competitors which I tried were not good. On the other hand, the competitors are cheaper than New Relic.

    We chose New Relic because it has all the attributes which we are using to monitor the health of servers.

    What other advice do I have?

    I use other type of software for database, e.g., MongoDB and GraphQL. It is easy to integrate New Relic with these third-party softwares. I don't spend more than one or two days for integration, as it's very fast. It can monitor our codes and third-party codes in these softwares.

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    CTO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
    Real User
    It allows us to pinpoint pages that require fixes to improve the user experience, and while it provides statistics, it doesn't give enough information about what to do with them.
    Pros and Cons
    • "They instrument up from the bottom to the top – every piece of code - they have a very perfect read of what’s being done, and how long it’s taking."
    • "It gives you amazing statistics, but doesn’t give you enough information about what to do with the statistics."

    How has it helped my organization?

    The website is much more responsive because we are able to quickly pinpoint the worst pages – we can be really targeted with where we put our resources. In a lot of areas, one page takes one minute, the next can be ten, then some take one, some take 30 seconds. You have to decide at what point you want to focus, this allows us to find the pages that are really painful for users, and fix those and make them a lot better.

    What is most valuable?

    It’s absolutely the ability to get a really specific read of what is taking up time. For example, if a webpage takes two minutes to load it tells you why it’s taking so long.

    They instrument up from the bottom to the top – every piece of code - they have a very perfect read of what’s being done, and how long it’s taking. And, a super nice way of presenting that.

    What needs improvement?

    It gives you amazing statistics, but doesn’t give you enough information about what to do with the statistics. The sales people need to be on board on this end.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    Three to five years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    There were no issues.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    From a point of view of showing you what to do fine but in terms of showing you what to do with the data infuriatingly unhelpful. Very friendly and available however.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    There was no solution in place previously.

    What about the implementation team?

    We implemented in-house.

    What was our ROI?

    It was able to really effectively find the problem and solve it – it sped up the pages considerably.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The monthly cost os $1000 per server per month, but it could be even more. We pay about $250 for the server, and then New Relic wants over $1000 to give us statistics on those servers.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    The alternative is to do UNIX profiling. Basically, you do it piecemeal, and amongst those piecemeal solutions is also browser profiling, and it’s really hard to justify. We thought about it, as if you’re a relatively small company New Relic is expensive, but it's way better than that. The price point is an issue so we turn it on and off when we need it. Not a great solution for a start-up.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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