We performed a comparison between New Relic and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: New Relic is the preferred choice over Google Cloud's operations suite due to its versatile features, accurate alerts, and end-to-end monitoring capabilities. New Relic offers more in-depth application information and transaction summaries. New Relic's straightforward pricing structure is noted as an advantage. Overall, New Relic's comprehensive features and ease of use make it the preferred choice for users.
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"It's easy to use."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"We find the solution to be stable."
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"We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."
"It has given us better insight into the performance of the system."
"New Relic's dashboard is nice, and it's reliable. It's also compatible with many services, especially Java and the Python ecosystem."
"The stability of New Relic APM is very good."
"You don't have to go through a list of 500 servers."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is the dashboard, New Relic Insights. I configured my own dashboard to monitor certain parameters."
"The simplicity of the dashboard is very good."
"The most valuable features of New Relic are the reports and ease of use."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It could be more stable."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be even more automated."
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"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."
"The solution could improve by having more network monitoring features, such as for all the infrastructure."
"There were some settings we had issues with."
"In the next release, I'd like to see a better pricing structure."
"I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues."
"New Relic needs to improve is the user data schema."
"Compared to their competitors, they are missing some features at the moment."
"It is a serious tool and requires a lot of time invested in order to understand how it works."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and BMC TrueSight Operations Management. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. New Relic report.
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