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.
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"The synthetic alert is the most valuable feature in New Relic APM. I also like the time travel feature and find traceability useful in the solution. New Relic APM also has good response times."
"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."
"The versatility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"It has a simple initial setup."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy to track and easy to follow."
"It offers helpful user metrics so we can learn more about the user experience."
"You don't have to go through a list of 500 servers."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"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 App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"Documentation could be improved in New Relic APM, so users would have more clarity on configuring the dashboard. If New Relic gave better guidelines, users would find it easier to understand the metrics and features of New Relic APM. Another area for improvement is integration with Kubernetes. Currently, the process isn't user-friendly. It's challenging and lacks documentation for users to understand how to integrate New Relic APM with Kubernetes quickly. With multiple levels of Kubernetes dockers and other DBs on different clouds, it's tricky to gather all into New Relic APM on a single dashboard. What I'd like to see in the next version of New Relic APM is a single dashboard where you can easily view which applications fall under specific APMs. If there's a search feature where you can type in a keyword to find out if an APM is related to a particular application, that would be great."
"The initial setup can be made easier. Like Mixpanel, New Relic can also have a step-by-step guide for the setup process."
"The solution only supports the cloud platform and not on-premises."
"The scalability can be improved."
"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."
"One thing I'd like to see in any APM, especially New Relic, is the ability to use distributed transactions. When one microservice calls another, it calls another database and microservice. The entire data visualization layer will not be able to correlate from one microservice from end to end and return on that path. Distributed transactions would be a great addition that would make life simpler. Unfortunately, no APM has that end-to-end capability."
"The solution needs to have staging."
"We would like a dashboard feature to be created for this product. This would allow us to monitor both the front and back-end of our UIs performance, and then report on it."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while New Relic is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 34 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 8.0, while New Relic is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "We can drill down and figure out what's going on with the application, but the API monitoring and user experience monitoring aspects could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of New Relic writes "Provides a complete picture of what's happening and has an accurate alert mechanism". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, IBM Application Performance Management, Elastic Observability and Prometheus, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. New Relic report.
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