We performed a comparison between New Relic and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is stable and scalable."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The product allows the developer to see the actual problems in the applications."
"We like the performance of the product."
"It offers helpful user metrics so we can learn more about the user experience."
"The most important thing is that it tells us where the latency in throughput and response time are."
"Server uptime is its most valuable feature."
"The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"New Relic does enable frontend performance monitoring by default. However, when we are troubleshooting the issue, New Relic is not able to trace back to the service where the issue is. Other solutions, such as Dynatrace are better."
"The price needs improvement."
"New Relic APM could improve error debugging and the correlation with the logs. We are receiving some alerts or alarms but we need to correlate with the error log, but it is difficult if it is more than seven months retention period, it is hard to trace. We need this especially for getting historical information."
"We would like to receive more AWS-specific details from the New Relic Dashboard, like EC2 health."
"The deployment process could be improved."
"There has been some problem with the agent, and it is just not working well. It is not able to record information with the application server. They have been able to fix the issue, but it took quite a long time. This is the main issue in the APM products and also in New Relic. The mobile application monitoring has been pretty difficult to set up and also quite expensive. It should be a little bit easier and cheaper. Because it is pretty difficult and expensive, many customers don't take it."
"Some of our customers see New Relic as a promising product to have, and we would like to deliver it to them. The only way we would be able to do that would be if we had server appliance for clients that we could install in their data centres."
"Data Dog captures the entire session and then provides it as a video player path, which gives more insight into what the user was doing. It's pretty impressive. New Relic does that, yet it only captures using a couple of screenshots, which is not very detailed since you are unable to see the entire user flow."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 48th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. New Relic is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of New Relic writes "Has a simple user interface and end-to-end monitoring and self-healing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Prometheus, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana and Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor. See our New Relic vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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