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 most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"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."
"It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy to track and easy to follow."
"The most valuable features of New Relic are the reports and ease of use."
"It gives insights to non-technical people about what technical issues are most important, how much it impacts customers, and potentially, where we should be targeting our development teams when they have time."
"The most valuable feature of New Relic is its ease of use."
"It does everything we wanted it to do."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"The browser isn't exactly reliable."
"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 could improve."
"We have had issues with our agents going offline."
"How granular I could go down at looking at certain data, especially related to the operations, is limited."
"The connectivity between legacy and newer cloud applications is not great."
"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."
"It gives you amazing statistics, but doesn’t give you enough information about what to do with the statistics."
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 151 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 Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. New Relic report.
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