We performed a comparison between New Relic and BMC TrueSight Operations Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: New Relic offers better network monitoring, longer historical data retention, improved error debugging and log correlation, and better dashboard customization and access management. It also has a simpler user interface, easier setup process, and more straightforward pricing. While BMC TrueSight Operations Management has some valuable features, it needs improvement in several areas, including deeper application monitoring, better cloud monitoring, and more powerful reporting dashboards.
"I like the event management part."
"I like the deep-dive detail and end-user metrics data. The synthetic monitor is the best one. The best point of the new one is that there's no need for configuration. You can inject the Java script and start to change major developments in the application. This is a good approach, and we received all the data using this."
"The ability of this platform to monitor the very diverse assets that we maintain around the world is its most valuable feature... We support a vast array of manufacturers' equipment, like HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi... We can do it all with [this] one [solution]."
"It is breadth. It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console."
"It allows our operations team to have one single application to reference when investigating issues in our environment."
"I like everything about this tool. I recommend this solution to anyone looking for a standalone solution with high availability meaning that can be used depending on the customers requirements."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the dashboard presentation server."
"I use the solution to monitor servers, databases, Windows, Linux, and web services."
"It does everything we wanted it to do."
"The deep insights, which will give you the metrics (not a high level), so we can build out at the database level where the bottleneck is. This has been pretty helpful."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy to track and easy to follow."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Every time there is a crisis, high traffic, or if we see a problem with a server, we go to New Relic and monitor it to determine the cause."
"New Relic's dashboard is nice, and it's reliable. It's also compatible with many services, especially Java and the Python ecosystem."
"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."
"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."
"In a large company of our size, we need multiple people in our company trained. So, I have to take the training classes. Then, I have to go and train the rest of my organization. I would prefer to say to the other people on my team, "Go to this link and..." Or, "Here's a list of training sessions that you can go to which are online and that are free." I think it would help the adoption of their product in the marketplace, personally."
"The one piece that I would love to see is a general-purpose, configurable agent which would be a framework that you can deploy on anything, whether it be Java or anything else. It would allow you to easily deploy it on a platform that they support."
"BMC's online documentation is often incorrect or incomplete."
"The dashboards are not good. We have a limited dashboard, and if we want better dashboards, we need to use other solutions like Grafana because the TrueSight dashboards are not good."
"The solution could improve its price."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
"The UI for the end users could be improved and more flexible than it is now."
"It's too complex, too many servers are required, there are too many different components in the solution, and a lot of agents are required."
"It would help customers if there were an on-premises version available."
"Compared to their competitors, they are missing some features at the moment."
"Some AIOps are missing in New Relic APS, and I would like to see more features in this area."
"There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
"The price needs improvement."
"New Relic is very slow, and the app is a bit frustrating to use, which is something that has been happening a lot in the past year. During the last six months, I have noticed that it has become extremely laggy."
"They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive."
"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."
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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 50 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". 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". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Prometheus. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. New Relic report.
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