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.
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"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."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"It has prevented failures from occurring in our production environment."
"The breakdown of the response time of different components and getting in-depth details of the slow component are the most valuable features. It is easy to use, and it gets the job done."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"The service maps that it creates, the health maps that it creates, the insights that it provides, etc., are all quite useful."
"We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."
"The most important thing is that it tells us where the latency in throughput and response time are."
"The integration and configuration of New Relic is straightforward and easy."
"We have done the New Relic integration with Serverless AWS, which has helped us with monitoring, and keeping our monitoring from our on-premise part with the cloud part."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided."
"The monitoring is only as good as the alerts that it produces. By having it set up fine grain alerting, it is a bit of a pain."
"I would like an infrastructure network that provides real-time views, showing the issues."
"There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
"I think that there have been some questionable product enhancements. Over a year ago, New Relic rolled out a new navigation that really disrupted our workflow."
"I would like to see the company implement the AI auto-baseline feature which Dynatrace has."
"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."
"New Relic APM is a good tool, and it has a database of failures, but it could use a list of customer-specific failures. New Relic APM should be able to give my company advanced analytics through AI."
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, Prometheus, Sentry 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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