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.
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"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 most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"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."
"What I like best about New Relic APM is its user interface because it's simple. The most valuable feature of New Relic APM is end-to-end monitoring."
"It is a software solution as a service, so I don't have to manage it on-premise."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The simplicity of the dashboard is very good."
"We detect issues using dashboards that we built on New Relic."
"The versatility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"The service maps that it creates, the health maps that it creates, the insights that it provides, etc., are all quite useful."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"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."
"The price needs improvement."
"The solution needs to have staging."
"They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive."
"There were some settings we had issues with."
"The solution should include more detailed reports for SQL database requests."
"It would be nice if there were pre-made dashboards."
"The solution only supports the cloud platform and not on-premises."
"I would like to see the company implement the AI auto-baseline feature which Dynatrace has."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 151 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, IBM Application Performance Management, Elastic Observability 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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