We performed a comparison between New Relic and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: New Relic is preferred over Instana Dynamic APM due to its versatile features, accurate alert mechanisms, end-to-end monitoring, consistent customer service and support, and straightforward pricing. Instana Dynamic APM is praised for its real-time data generation and fast implementation, but lacks certain features and anomaly detection based on AI. New Relic is a stable and reliable solution with a simple user interface, making it easier to use than other tools.
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The detailing of our application behavior and user experience is most valuable. In case there is an issue, we typically use Instana to figure it out. We can drill down to the application and figure out what's going on and where the issue is."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"It is a stable solution."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is the dashboard, New Relic Insights. I configured my own dashboard to monitor certain parameters."
"The synthetics, alerts, and native inbuilt capabilities for monitoring the cloud with the New Relic agents have been helpful."
"It has helped my organization to dive deeper into the application using the APM module is very helpful."
"It does everything we wanted it to do."
"The best feature of New Relic is its simple look and feel, making it easier to use than other tools."
"We appreciate the way that this solution allows us to monitor the ongoing status of the UI at any given time."
"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."
"It is a software solution as a service, so I don't have to manage it on-premise."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"I would like to have storage monitoring. E.g., being able to monitor SANS, specifically protocols, like NFS and CIFS metrics."
"The UX/UI design of New Relic APM could be improved. The solution currently has some slow pages in terms of loading and viewing the pages, for example, the reports. The reports and other pages take a long time to load."
"The price needs improvement."
"The solution needs to have staging."
"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."
"It gives you amazing statistics, but doesn’t give you enough information about what to do with the statistics."
"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."
"I would like to be able to invest less time in IT and ad hocs. We should be concentrating on other issues."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 152 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". 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". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic Observability, IBM Application Performance Management and Datadog, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. New Relic report.
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