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    New Relic

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ANew Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

    $0

    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks

    Sentry

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASentry provides engineering teams with tools to detect and solve user-impacting bugs and other issues.

    $26

    per month

    Pricing
    New RelicSentry
    Editions & Modules
    Free (Forever)
    $0
    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
    Telemetry Data Platform
    $0.25
    per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
    Incident Intelligence
    $0.50
    per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
    Standard
    $99
    per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
    Pro
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    Team
    $26
    per month
    Business
    $80
    per month
    Developer
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    New RelicSentry
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    New RelicSentry
    Considered Both Products
    New Relic
    Chose New Relic
    Less expensive than Datadog and Sentry with almost everything we need. Less effort to set up and maintain than elastic search and kibana so saved a ton on engineering bandwidth which would have otherwise been lost.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    For front-end applications we compared New Relic with Sentry, the most pro of [New Relic] is the capability the merge data from back-end applications, having a clear view of all the context. Another way, the Sentry is focused only on front-end applications and is not able to …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    They all have pros and cons. We actually do use both Sentry Datadog and NewRelic depending on the service / need.
    Incentivized
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    every one is using New Relic
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is the most full-featured offering that we've found, and is incredibly easy to start using with a PHP app. The New Relic agent is installed as a PHP extension so it is able to monitor and track the performance of any PHP app being run by the web server. Other tools …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    At the time, we selected New Relic for the broad coverage it could provide over our landscape.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    The differentiating feature, in my opinion, is the support given by New Relic, in our org, there is a slack channel dedicated for New Relic which allows us to have a quicker response and more convenience.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is way more advanced than other tools we evaluated.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is more affordable for infrastructure monitoring and had a more mature app monitoring suite (but data dog is catching up). Data dog has better predictive analytics and DB monitoring.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Stackify's pricing was quite a bit better than New Relic, however on the whole New Relic had more features overall that benefitted our team. Overall though however, Stackify is worth checking out, they are improving their application over time and adding more features. It's …
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    Sentry
    Chose Sentry
    We actually ended up using both because New Relic is a more robust overall IT infrastructure monitoring product. However, sentry is more developer oriented on the backend and more client friendly on the front end as far as showing results and the dashboard etc. It can provide …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sentry
    Sentry was cheaper and lighter weight/easier to deal with. New Relic always felt like it was slowing the site down some. I don’t think either has had any major negative impact, but Sentry always seemed better/faster. Also, Sentry doesn’t have contracts like New Relic does …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sentry
    Sentry is better suited for tracking and aggregating exceptions over New Relic. New Relic does report on exceptions that occur, but Sentry is better at rolling up similar exceptions and filtering out the noise. Sentry also does a great job at identifying when an exception first …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sentry
    I think Sentry is far more user-friendly and has a better UI. Sentry is also a more affordable option.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    New RelicSentry
    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Datadog
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Airbrake
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    New RelicSentry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (128 ratings)
    8.3
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    New RelicSentry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    New Relic
    I have used New Relic in different scenarios like monitoring my production infrastructure and applications which helps us to reduce the downtime of my applications and websites and also I have used the synthetic monitoring feature which helps to proactively monitor our websites availability. Along with this I have also used New Relic for cloud resources cost monitoring which helps to reduce my cloud cost. Also I have used mobile application monitoring which helps me to trace the sessions easily and I can easily reduce my RCA through the help of that.
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    Sentry
    Great for standard web application performance monitoring, analytics and error reporting. Shows line level code errors, gives insight into performance issues (plugins, API issues, etc.). Automation and scheduled scanning in production gives client visibility into 'after deployment' value. Also lets a relatively small number of developers keep tabs on a handful of different site/applications without needing a bunch of tools. The UI is pretty complicated and can be overwhelming for new users. Documentation could be better for the learning curve,
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    Pros
    New Relic
    • New Relic APM allows us to follow up transactions across services and trace performance bottlenecks in real-time, crucial when monitoring the processing of energy loads or predictive maintenance algorithms.
    • It gives us deep visibility into our cloud servers, containers and IOT gateways, so we can catch CPU spikes or memory leaks which can impact the data we ingest from the field devices.
    • We develop custom dashboards for monitoring trends of power consumption, abnormality in sensors and API health. In conjunction with alerting, it makes sure we are fixing issues before customers even see them.
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    Sentry
    • Great web interface. Lots of data available in a really clean format, with filtering options and more.
    • Per-user exception tracking. User is complaining about something being broken? Look up their account ID in Sentry and you can see if they've run into any exceptions (with device information included, of course).
    • Source map uploading. Took a little while to figure this out but now we have our deploy script upload sourcemaps to Sentry on each deployment, meaning we get to see stack traces that aren't obfuscated!
    • Very generous free tier – 10,000 events per month. We're nowhere near that yet.
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    Cons
    New Relic
    • Support for SQL like query with more functional features of analysis while viewing distributed tracing.
    • support for very low level specific integration from APIs to classes to functions to piece of code
    • More detailed documentation, as we faced issues while integrating for the first time.
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    Sentry
    • Alert Configuration. Would be really helpful to have multiple logical groupings within the "If" section of a single configurable alert.
    • Alert Copying. Being able to copy an alert from one project to another would be super beneficial.
    • Alert Tags. Better UI around how we select which tags are getting sent with each alert instead of a tiny text box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    New Relic
    The only issue that we have had with New Relic is that the price might be a little expensive for smaller companies. The amount of data you store in New Relic impacts the cost, and can get away from you if you don't work closely with the vendor. Overall though the application is top notch.
    Incentivized
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    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    New Relic
    New Relic helps in observability setup for the critical environments and getting known about the issues and troubleshoot the applications and services. Alerts helps in knowing the abnormal state of the system and services, Dashboards are used for visualizing the key metrics and muting the unwanted notifications and dropping the extra data from the source.
    Incentivized
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    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
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    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    New Relic
    there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.
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    Sentry
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    Support Rating
    New Relic
    The support team has been really helpful and resolved most of the issues on time. However, for a couple of issues, several follow-ups were needed to elicit a reasonable response. The issue was deeply technical and could have been investigated only by their Architects, and bringing them into the ticket took longer than needed
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    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    New Relic
    It's better to start by implementing New Relic in one project and test everything. Try to follow best recommended practices and read all the official documentation. Everything seems well tested. Then, start by installing agents to the rest of your projects and keep a close look to all logs and metrics New Relic gives you.
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    Sentry
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    Alternatives Considered
    New Relic
    New Relic has full stack visibility and gives us all options for observability like one stop shop. It gives you front end, backend as well synthetic monitoring capabilities. Every other feature built into one cost model (usually) which ties to data that you send, it helps you leverage all features without having to pay additional charge for feature
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    Sentry
    We used Rollbar but didn't like the configuration its not easy. And also doesn't support wide features like Sentry although its a cheaper option but doesn't have the dash-boarding like Sentry and its was not easy to integrate webhooks for different purposes. Somehow many people in company where not able to understand Rollbar dashboard who were very much used to Sentry.
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    Scalability
    New Relic
    Agent deployment is easily integrated into our workflow. Adding the agent to new servers is quick and painless
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    Sentry
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    New Relic
    • We were able to quickly identify our most time consuming APIs. In some cases we were able to bring down times for some apis from 4s to 200ms.
    • We were able to identify our slowest database queries and optimize them for quicker response times.
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    Sentry
    • It helped stabilize our system in the beginning
    • We had to take it down later due to internal reasons and majorly because of cost-cutting process
    • If someone has a unstable system and have no way to figure out what to do, can use sentry at least temporarily along with some other APM to fix their system faster
    Incentivized
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