We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and New Relic based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is praised for its lower cost, better integration with Microsoft technologies, and its ability to monitor cloud resources across multiple subscriptions. Although New Relic is easy to use and provides in-depth application information, it is criticized for its pricing structure and lack of network monitoring features. Azure Monitor also offers valuable resources for new users with customizable templates and best practices from Microsoft. Overall, Azure Monitor is regarded as a strong and dependable product that offers excellent value for its cost.
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The synthetic alert is the most valuable feature in New Relic APM. I also like the time travel feature and find traceability useful in the solution. New Relic APM also has good response times."
"There are many valuable features in New Relic APM. We developed some software applications and we are able to monitor the errors very easily. Their log security retention is very good."
"We like the performance of the product."
"The alert mechanism is quite accurate when something goes wrong in your system. For example, if you have hundreds of APIs on your server, and any of the APIs is not performing well, you get an alert. When there is a drop or change in the threshold value, the beauty of New Relic is that within a fraction of seconds, all the stakeholders who are configured in the New Relic system will get an alert. That's one good thing."
"It is a one stop shop and integrated with PagerDuty seamlessly. The solution is pretty self-contained."
"The synthetics, alerts, and native inbuilt capabilities for monitoring the cloud with the New Relic agents have been helpful."
"Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly."
"The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided."
"I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues."
"The solution needs to have staging."
"The solution must provide better support for Azure Web Apps service."
"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."
"The product has good documentation for Linux, however, their documentation for Windows is lacking substantially. It's something they need to develop."
"I would like to see the company implement the AI auto-baseline feature which Dynatrace has."
"One thing I'd like to see in any APM, especially New Relic, is the ability to use distributed transactions. When one microservice calls another, it calls another database and microservice. The entire data visualization layer will not be able to correlate from one microservice from end to end and return on that path. Distributed transactions would be a great addition that would make life simpler. Unfortunately, no APM has that end-to-end capability."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Elastic Observability, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Sentry. See our Azure Monitor vs. New Relic report.
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