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New Relic vs Sentry comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.7
New Relic enhances performance by quickly pinpointing issues, improving application speed and stability, despite occasional pricing concerns.
Sentiment score
3.9
Sentry quickly resolves errors, boosts productivity, reduces downtime, improves user experience, and allows focus on new features.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
New Relic's customer service is praised for quick, helpful support, although some experience variable wait times and off-hour delays.
Sentiment score
4.0
Sentry's comprehensive documentation and community support reduce reliance on customer service, with support rated 3.5 out of 5.
Issues that could be solved quickly sometimes take longer because they go around in circles.
I have reached out to customer support multiple times for various cases, particularly for customization such as creating dashboards, and my experience has been good.
We have not contacted their technical support because everything is easy to set up under Sentry.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
New Relic is praised for its scalability, handling various environments efficiently, though some users consider costs a factor.
Sentiment score
7.5
Sentry is praised for its robust scalability, handling large-scale operations efficiently, even with high user volumes and complex environments.
We have not encountered any scalability issues with Sentry.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
New Relic is highly stable, handling workloads well, with minor issues quickly resolved and consistently high user ratings.
Sentiment score
7.5
Users praise Sentry's stability, citing few downtimes and robust features contingent on user skills, with high ratings.
 

Room For Improvement

New Relic users seek better pricing, enhanced integrations, improved documentation, and more comprehensive dashboards, alerts, and performance monitoring.
Users seek Sentry improvements in integrations, analytics, customization, interface, debugging, personalization, mapping, documentation, and cloud capabilities.
Using real-time data, if there are any malicious patterns or something happening, they can identify those.
Email alert customization is limited; it cannot be tailored much, which makes the system more rigid than optimal.
New Relic can get pricey for larger organizations.
Integrations or single sign-on capability with Microsoft would be beneficial for securing all assets.
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers should consider New Relic's complex and potentially expensive pricing model, especially for smaller companies or large deployments.
Sentry offers flexible, cost-effective pricing with easy plan transitions and customizable options for enterprise users.
Compared to New Relic, it provides the necessary features at a cheaper cost, especially since we moved infrastructure monitoring to Azure.
 

Valuable Features

New Relic offers easy installation, real-time monitoring, detailed insights, custom dashboards, and efficient integration, enhancing application performance and optimization.
Sentry provides robust error management, performance monitoring, and seamless integration with platforms, enhancing developer collaboration and application efficiency.
Using New Relic speeds up troubleshooting and resolution, giving us a clearer picture of where issues are, thus saving time and effort.
Another aspect I appreciate is its good alerting mechanism, which can throw alerts and can be configured with PagerDuty or Slack, allowing easy checks on triggers and troubleshooting using New Relic.
Your data is monitored end to end, which could be directly linked with the SLA and SLO.
Real-time error tracking helps our Quality Assurance team easily identify the root causes of problems or bugs and promptly inform the developers about specific issues.
At this time, I focus on finding and fixing bugs.
With Sentry, the debugging process is made more efficient, reducing the time developers spend on finding and fixing errors.
 

Categories and Ranking

New Relic
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
160
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (9th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (8th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Mobile APM (3rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (5th), AIOps (4th)
Sentry
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Debugging (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of New Relic is 5.1%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentry is 5.8%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
New Relic5.1%
Sentry5.8%
Other89.1%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Rahul -Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Good for application Performance Monitoring but not stable
There are two types of teams we have in every organization. One is for DevOps, and the second one is for performance testing. Those who are using these tools, like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or whatever tool we have on the APM side. These tools are used by two teams: one is the performance team, and another one is the DevOps team. So, the setup and the alert system belong to the DevOps team, not for performance. So, I don't use any alerts in AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or any of the tools.
Abdullah Baig - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use solution that has a good dashboard, performs well, and provides flexible pricing
Sentry was easy to learn compared to New Relic and Azure Monitor. I saw some valuable input. It took us the least amount of time to see how Sentry is valuable. It took just a few minutes. Session Replay provides a replay of the recorded errors. It is a good feature. Azure Monitor does not have this feature. The error reporting is straightforward. We can see everything that we need to see. The dashboard seems pretty fine. The product performs well. We can see the user's IP addresses.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business65
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise61
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What do you like most about New Relic Insights?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?
New Relic can be improved by incorporating an automated incident analysis solution. They have comprehensive enterprise data, and based on that, they could generate and forecast things. They can pre...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sentry?
Do you know anything about the pricing aspect, the licensing costs, setup cost of Sentry product?
What needs improvement with Sentry?
What would you like to see improved or enhanced in Sentry in the future? Are there any specific features that you would like to see included in the next releases of Sentry?
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

New Relic Browser, New Relic Applied Intelligence, New Relic Insights, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Servers, New Relic APM
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

World Fuel Services, Verizon, FootLocker, McDonald's, Trainline, Mondia Media, Confused, Costa Coffee, Ryanair, Marks & Spencer, William Hill, Delivery Hero, Skyscanner, BASF, DAZN, Veygo, Virtuo, movingimage, talabat, Australia Post, Tokopedia, Seven Network, Virgin Australia, Zomato, BigBasket, Mercado Libre, Lending Club
Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber
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