it_user344568 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Cvent
Real User
I can drill down and see what’s happening in real-time, but I'd like second-by-second monitoring, instead of a five-minute lag time.

What is most valuable?

Real-time error monitoring means I can drill down and see what’s happening. It allows me to see what my latency is while it’s going on.

How has it helped my organization?

The data visualization is easy to read. Better yet, it's easy to show other people the visualizations.

What needs improvement?

I'd like second-by-second monitoring, instead of a five-minute lag time.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's good, though there was just one instance where the agent had a problem, but it was quick to remedy.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered with scalability.

How are customer service and support?

I found a bug and they gave us a work around, and a week later, they released a patch.

How was the initial setup?

I wasn't involved in the initial setup.

What other advice do I have?

I would like to see the platform extended further.

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it_user331185Senior Product Marketing Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
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Drew - have you tried AppInternals? It offers user-to-backend transaction tracing and second-by-second performance monitoring. Try it for free here: www.appinternals.com

it_user342180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer, DevOps Team at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
We can see easily what’s working and not, so there’s less downtime, but some training and documentation from them would be nice.

Valuable Features:

Dashboards let us monitor applications. We can see exactly what the problem is and where we need to go to troubleshoot it to solve the problem. Most of the time it tells us what the problem is. When you see it up in the application you put it exactly where you need it; we can troubleshoot simply by looking.

Improvements to My Organization:

If something goes bad, we can resolve it faster and in the proper way, rather than spending a lot of time just trying to understand what’s going on. We can see easily what’s working and not, so there’s less downtime.

Room for Improvement:

It’s really powerful with a lot of features, but some training and documentation from New Relic would be useful.

Stability Issues:

We had some problems at the beginning, but we may not have set it up properly. It’s not clear if it was stability problem in New Relic or in our application, and it was just at the beginning.

Scalability Issues:

Our stack is fixed, so we only scale within the set number of servers.

Initial Setup:

I wasn’t on the implementation team.

Other Advice:

Sometimes we just don’t know how to maximize the use of its features. If we had some additional training, that would help.

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Co-Founder at a computer software company
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We used to get lots of complaints from clients on app slowness. Using New Relic we are able to solve slowness issues

What is most valuable?

  • App server monitoring
  • Response time
  • Error Rates

How has it helped my organization?

We used to get lots of complaints from clients on app slowness. Using New Relic we are able to solve the slowness issues based on traffic and server response metrics.

What needs improvement?

Errors insights have room for improvement especially error analysis part which is somewhat less compared to similar tool Splunk.

For how long have I used the solution?

Over 2 years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

None encountered. It's quite stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

9 out of 10. They have a great support team.

Technical Support:

9 out of 10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No but we are using Splunk and New Relic along with Stackdriver Simultaneously [Don't want to depend on one and use the features of all].

How was the initial setup?

We followed their documentation and it was good enough to set it up.

What about the implementation team?

In house team.

What was our ROI?

About 50-60%.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We spend around $100 per month.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We analyzed AppDynamics as well but found New Relic better suited for us.

What other advice do I have?

Please go ahead and try this and you won't regret having it.

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it_user68343 - PeerSpot reviewer
Webmaster with 51-200 employees
Vendor
Great application but still lacks a bit in non application monitoring

One of the greatest finds of the past 12 months has to be New Relic. Its monitoring and performance tracking in a box is just amazing, and shows what modern SaaS solutions should be.

New Relic is a great application tier monitoring solution, and while I would love it to do many more things, its still amazing how much it can do.

It is still lacking a bit in non application monitoring, so can’t hold all the cards at the moment, but works well alongside other platforms.

Don’t write this off as a Java tool, I know I initially did, but we have had it run against PHP stacks with just as much useful information generated.

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it_user344532 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Developers and operations people can look at the same data, but, although rare, there have been some times where it failed to record something.

Valuable Features

Transactions overview - we can track the slowest ones to see where the problems occur. It’s the first place we look for problems.

Improvements to My Organization

Both developers and operations people can look at the same data, and that’s a great benefit. Operations can monitor, as they’re also in charge of the website, and developers can use it to see code changes.

Room for Improvement

It could be faster, but they’re already working on making this.

Stability Issues

Quite stable. There have been some times where it failed to record something, but those were rare. Pretty reliable.

Scalability Issues

No performance issues when scaling. We don’t need to care about scaling it as it monitors our system. You just put an agent in the server and New Relic takes care of the scaling to provide you with the data.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Haven’t had to use it as the product is quite easy to use. Also, the documentation is also very clear in how to use the API, etc.

Other Advice

Just do it.

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it_user344571 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations, Android engineer at Cvent
Real User
We're all privy to data at the same time, whereas before we only had siloed views that provided limited data. However, it needs ways to extract data to other platforms such as mobile.

Valuable Features

It’s fast! I have a tab open all the time and I don’t have to refresh the page, I just glance at it. It provides easily digestible information.

Improvements to My Organization

We all look at the data, so we are all privy to the data at the same time. Before, we only had siloed views that provided limited data.

Room for Improvement

  • Slack-integration
  • JIRA integration for ticket creation
  • It needs ways to extract data to other platforms such as mobile. The docs in API and dashboards seem to be a little behind and overly verbose, I don’t want to have to jump back and forth.

Stability Issues

There's no problem with stability, but I had one annoying problem where I wasn’t part of the right group, but New Relic fixed it for me.

Scalability Issues

We don't have much experience with scaling it, but we've been able to scale to a mobile platform.

Customer Service and Technical Support

We've had good experiences with technical support.

Initial Setup

I wasn't involved in the setup.

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it_user344559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at Cvent
Real User
It's given us the ability for anyone to know how our customers experience our application, although it would be nice to have a way to pull charts and data into third-party services.

Valuable Features

It allows us to break up the bands of types of responses you get, such as database and external transactions.

Improvements to My Organization

It's given us the ability for anyone to know how our customers experience our application.

Room for Improvement

I'd like a way to pull charts and data into third-party services. If we can pull that data and recreate charts, that would be great.

There are also a couple UX/UI inconveniences, as some of the graphs take a sharp drop down because they haven't gotten data yet.

Stability Issues

It's fairly stable, but there were some issues every once in a while, but New Relic is very quick to put notifications out.

Scalability Issues

It's no problem, we’ve gone through adding services and have had no issue scaling.

Customer Service and Technical Support

We've only had good experiences.

Initial Setup

I wasn't involved in the setup.

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Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
Transcational traces are very helpful.

What is most valuable?

Transaction traces

How has it helped my organization?

It helps me to identify root cause on the code level issues.

What needs improvement?

Doesn't recognized some third party transaction traces.

For how long have I used the solution?

3 Years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

I haven't experienced any issues with deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I haven't experienced any issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I haven't experienced any issues with scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Extremely satisfied

Technical Support:

Satisfied

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Yes, I switched because of the low cost

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward

What about the implementation team?

Implemented on my own

What was our ROI?

Very high

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

They come up with best pricing solution for frequent buyers.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Did PoC using pro version.

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