New Relic Reviews

It helps us organize the data from our clients and reason with it. Moreover, with the client JS API, we can report data to New Relic and query it with Insights. It is easy to use and has an understandable graph editor. 

This is the real deal.

Tracking and monitoring production is mandatory, however, we did it for years only for the back-end side. As the client-side applications grow bigger and get more complex more responsibility gets to the client. Because of that we must be able to understand if our clients are "healthy". The term "healthy" is not clear to what it means. 

Presently we report data to New Relic Insights, and we've built some really readable and understandable graphs. We monitor with those graphs every deploy to production, and we are advising the graphs to resolve current problems with our application, like errors and problems with the load and response times.

New Relic comes with some features out of the box, but not enough. There are some essential features that New Relic needs to implement that their competitors already support, like special treatment for AngularJS/React applications. We had to implement (with the JS API) the ability to query errors through Insights which is essential. Currently, we don't have a way to send alerts which is a real pain.

We are using it in conjunction with APM and Insights.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability.

We also looked at Raygun.io and TrackJs which are great products, but neither has the tri-factor, which is:

1. Tracking errors with integration to the server
2. Ability to report you own data
3. Ability to build you own custom dashboard

New Relic has a good separation between the data that you report and how you show it, along with data you get out of the box. My advice is about how to show the data in a way that it will be easy to reason with it.

You can build many different graphs, really try them all, and then decide what fits best for your organization. That's what we did. The way you handle data varies between organizations and even between teams in a organization, and the ability to show the data in different ways is very helpful with that.

New Relic always gets new things done. The system is always changing and in a good way. New features are always coming into the system and we are very happy with it.

It shows you what’s going on, but we had to do custom instrumentation ourselves.

• Debugging response time is less
• Alert notifications and alert summaries

• I wish it had more insight into what might be causing a particular slowness issue. It finds the function, but it would be great to have insight into what’s slow.
• More instrumentation.
• Also, it would be good to compare machine state to machine state (compare versions of UNIX, Ruby, and libraries) and be able to perform auditing of machines.

Never needed it.

The decision was why not to have it (cost?) not why to have it.

New Relic is great for DevOps and for a company that expects developers to do their own operations. For specialists they tend to have their own instrumentation tools.

It gives us insight into several areas--

• Where slowdowns are,
• Which of our customers is hitting us most, and
• If there’s an application issue on the database side, how long a query takes.

It gives us enough knowledge to know where to improve things on the database side, or to make improvements in the application logic.

I don't have any suggestions for improvements, but we think sometimes it’s too difficult to get more details about a problem. Sometimes it requires too much drilling down to find out about a problem for which we shouldn't need to do so much searching.

No problems whatsoever with deploying APM.

It seems pretty stable, although there are times when it is not available.

Seems to be pretty good on scalability and it’s easy to install into our applications.

We haven’t had any issues needing to involve their technical support.

It was already in the environment when I joined, but I can't imagine that setup would have been anything but straightforward.

New Relic has proven itself as a very reliable and convenient way to monitor your servers and applications. Compared to other cloud-based offerings, New Relic is easy to install and provides a lot of information to you in a very convenient and easy to understand dashboard.I chose to test drive New Relic after seeing the graphs from a fellow sysad. I was amazed at the level of information and detail that I saw that I decided to try it out myself. What's even more impressive is that you can share monitoring servers or apps with other members of New Relic. Notifications are also available via email, and all of the notifications for my servers and services arrive on time. This allows me to immediately check what is happening and take appropriate action if necessary.

One major issue for me with New Relic is data privacy. Though installation is a breeze for most operating systems, the thought of installing a monitoring application and seeing a lot of information about my servers or applications somewhere is somewhat nerve-wracking. Right now, I do not know what other information is being sent to New Relic's servers and I don't have any control as to what is being monitored and sent. This can be a major issue for some companies, and care must be taken is there is no settings page presented during installation to enable or disable certain parameters for monitoring.Overall, New Relic is a great product is recommended for use. Just make sure that you understand the potential privacy and data theft issues associated with cloud-based services.

Personally, I would like to have an options pages during installation detailing what can be monitored and allow me to only select certain parameters to be reported. Also, network usage of the tool should also be profiled as it might consume a significant amount of your bandwidth if you have many servers being monitored.

The most valuable feature for us is the ability to see what is going on with the apps on our web server. We can monitor the response times, throughput, what transactions are fast or slow, and what's being hit more than others.

In the past, we had to look at server metrics such as CPU and the number of connections. With APM, we can see much more about what it's doing. It's helped with a lot of troubleshooting of performance issues. It's also helped with code problems, where we deploy something and it's performing slowly. It helps us see the problem in the web app, database, rendering, etc.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We encountered no issues with instability.

It scaled well, as we just need to add a new agent onto the box when we add a server. Also, it's been helpful in determining when we need to scale up by looking at the metrics.

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.

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

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

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

No issues encountered with scalability.

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

I wasn't involved in the initial setup.

I would like to see the platform extended further.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I wasn’t on the implementation team.

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

Ease of installation/maintenance.

Makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot application issues.

1.5 years.

We use a deployment solution so after we set it up once we could package up the deployment and go from there. Administratively, it's really easy since it's an SaaS application.

Haven't encountered as issues with stability.

Haven't encountered as issues with scalability.

Customer Service:

Excellent.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

I had not used another solution. Others in the company have. Switch was due to feature set, ease of use, and less administrative overhead.

I had to read the instruction page but other than that, it's easy.

We did not implement through a vendor.

I do not know. The licenses were purchased and I installed Java and server agents.

I was not involved in the choice/purchase of this product.

Have your dev team read the information about the product: it's capabilities and how to implement them. That will help a lot in the long run.