it_user267330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Plone developer. Python programmer. Technical project lead. at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Real-time performance statistics showed that our online service wasn't as fast and reliable as we expected.

What is most valuable?

The ability to have real-time performance statistics, as we need to know if the main features of our website are working and responding fast enough to our clients' clicks.

How has it helped my organization?

New Relic helped us in realizing that sometimes our online service wasn't as fast and reliable as we expected it to be. With the help of New Relic tools, our organization was able to detect, track, and fix errors in our website, so we focused our efforts in these areas.

What needs improvement?

The pricing model. New Relic can be expensive for growing startups. Maybe they should think of some more choices.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Not at all.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No, access to the New Relic website and reports was always stable. Monitoring, events and reports are always available and we didn't notice any kind of downtime.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No, our website started with a small number of users and grew to hundreds. New Relic was always working as expected.

How are customer service and support?

Customer service has always answered our questions very quickly, even on weekends. It seems very effective. 10/10.

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

We previously tried some hosted solutions using a variety of tools to perform monitoring and reporting tasks. We decided to switch to New Relic for its simplicity on setup and maintenance. We are able to quickly deploy new servers using New Relic in zero time.

How was the initial setup?

New Relic offers great tools to integrate your software stack with their tools, and everything worked like a charm.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented New Relic ourselves

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

Pricing can be dangerous if your product grows a lot. You should start with the free lite option to see if you can find New Relic useful for your application, and then try the Pro version with one or more hosts.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No other options evaluated,

What other advice do I have?

Search in the plugins repository to see if there's already a package for your CMS framework. Install que iOS/Android mobile app to monitor your sites and get alerts.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user660 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Expert at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Unique model, ultra-modern product

Valuable Features:

From operationally rich, to developer deep. Invites dev and ops to work together, most operational APM tools don't invite the dev. Most easily adopted APM tool. For innovators first, then the rest of the Org will start to "Get It".

Room for Improvement:

It is a SaaS service and this creates internal friction that needs innovative solutions (but you have to own that).ROI is very high because a single SKU product is rare in APM today, and the ability to move licenses anywhere is an amazing agility quotient.

Other Advice:

ROI - found key issues in the first month in the biggest Alexa-rated site that we own.
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it_user4401Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor

The importance of New Relic is that the user do not have to install and maintain the back end monitoring system, its database and its storage - that is all done by New Relic. The user just have to install the New Relic agents into his applications.

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Director - Operations at FranConnect LLC
Real User
Reliable, good support, and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "The stability of New Relic APM is very good."
  • "New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided."

What needs improvement?

New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using New Relic APM for approximately six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of New Relic APM is very good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of New Relic APM is good. We have not had any issue with scalability when we use different types of loads, it worked very well.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support from New Relic APM is very good.

What was our ROI?

The ROI from using New Relic APM is good.

What other advice do I have?

I rate New Relic APM an eight out of ten.

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Database Administrator at a music company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Good drill-down functionality let us see through to SQL code, and it integrates well with Slack
Pros and Cons
  • "We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."
  • "There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."

What is our primary use case?

We were using New Relic Synthetics to test our application, which retrieved data from the web on a daily basis. Our second use case was that it helped us to isolate any bad code.

You put the hooks in for the website as a database, and you can drill down into all of the offending code. You can even go down into the SQL. We were running an Oracle database and I was the DBA, so the SQL level was my responsibility.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature was drill-downs. I was able to use it to drill-down into the SQL, get the response time, as well as the allocation based on IO, CPU, and the other resources attached to the SQL queries.

We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right.

What needs improvement?

There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search. Certain things like this would have helped me a little bit.

For how long have I used the solution?

We used New Relic Synthetics for at least a year, up until the end of 2019.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's a stable solution and we never had a problem with it.

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

Prior to New Relic, we were using some Oracle tools such as AWR. Although they were useful, they were not really proactive. New Relic is a more proactive tool, as it were.

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in the initial setup, but it was done in-house by one person. It took at least half a week to complete it. This included setting up the service, and Slack integration. It took a nice amount of time, in total.

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

I loved this product, but we can no longer afford it, so we dropped it.

What other advice do I have?

Honestly, at first, I was very hesitant about using this product. My advice is to learn to use it and learn all of the features because it has many of them, not all of which are documented, but they work wonders. For us, they really helped a lot.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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CTO and VP R&D at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
It gives us the visibility that we need in monitoring
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for monitoring the CPU, memory, services, email rates, etc.

How has it helped my organization?

We monitor the Internet daily, or every few days. Then, 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.

What is most valuable?

  • The APM
  • Monitoring
  • The capabilities which allow you to easily see whatever you are looking for.

What needs improvement?

  • I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues.
  • I would like more deep dive monitoring into services and being able to install it on some apps.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable. We don't have any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good. We have a few thousand servers, and it is up and down based on the traffic and need. We have New Relic on all of our servers.

How is customer service and technical support?

We don't use the technical support.

How was the initial setup?

The integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment was quite easy.

We have it integrated mostly with our physical servers.

What was our ROI?

The product saves time and money.

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

Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy. The product is easy to deploy and manage, which is why our company purchased through the AWS Marketplace.

The pricing could be better. We did not purchase the full version. Maybe if we applied all the other features of the full version of New Relic, we could get all the features that we feel are missing.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In addition to New Relic, we evaluated Monitis and Dynatrace. We chose New Relic because it was cheaper for us as a startup, and it is also faster and more user-friendly.

What other advice do I have?

Go with it. It is a good product. It gives us the visibility that we need in monitoring.

The AWS version is easier to deploy than the on-premise version.

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it_user344535 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Director at Ontegrity
Consultant
It allows us to perform threshold testing to see how quickly transactions are getting out to customers, providing us with data such as response time and adequacy.

What is most valuable?

We used it more heavily before Synthetics came, but it’s kind of like Synthetics, but used domestically.

It allows us to perform threshold testing to see how quickly transactions are getting out to customers, providing us with data such as response time and adequacy.

Our software does significant data queries, so we throttle performance according to region just to keep the application up. Now we can open it up completely because of New Relic tools.

Ability to quickly identify different browser usage performance issues across our application functions. Again saves time in coding to enhance the end user experience.

How has it helped my organization?

It enables us to fine-tune our application quicker. It's also better if we find issues in our application than if our customers find it.

It also prevents performance issues because we're able to see potential issues before they cause real problems.

What needs improvement?

I can't recommend any improvements to Browser. I really can’t find anything that I don’t like about these apps.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Deployment was very simple.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've encountered no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling has not been a problem.

How is customer service and technical support?

I've not had to use technical support.

How was the initial setup?

We had no problems setting it up.

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it_user344514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Although it isn’t as expressive as SQL, we're able to implement a solution that uses New Relic's API to provide data so the project manager can query it using NRQL.

What is most valuable?

It's schema-less and unconstrained to queries. And although NRQL isn’t as expressive as SQL, we're able to implement a solution that uses New Relic's API to provide data so the project manager can query it using NRQL.

They announced that they’re expanding a GUI to make NRQL even less technical.

How has it helped my organization?

Helped us understand that we had a professional group of our users that we didn’t even know about.

It identified mechanized behavior (e.g. bots) and then blocked them.

What needs improvement?

Raw transaction didn’t give us data that we needed. We needed user information so we needed to supply the data with an API.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It’s built to stay up. We starting sending a ton of data to them. They were able to deal with it on their end given their internal architecture. We had a marketing partnership with them.

How are customer service and technical support?

It’s responsive. When I have had questions, we used the forum. As a big customer, we get a response within a few hours.

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

Our CTO came back from a conference last year and we were trying to solve a problem using DynamoDB, S3 and Redis (trying to solve the user segmentation question and analyze user behavior). Within a few hours of implementing the API, I was able to query for what we needed. You could do a lot with elastic search, but that needs a team of three people.

How was the initial setup?

No complexity. Just an API call.

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

They charge by the number of events and for the retention.

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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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