If we receive errors or exceptions, or we need to check the load we use New Relic.
Effective reporting, high availability, and scales well
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of New Relic are the reports and ease of use."
- "The price could improve."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of New Relic are the reports and ease of use.
What needs improvement?
The price could improve.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic for approximately one year.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the stability of New Relic a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have approximately five managers using this solution.
I rate the scalability of New Relic a nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I have not used the support from the vendor.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We are mainly using Tomcat, but we use New Relic simultaneously. New Relic works as well Tomcat.
What about the implementation team?
We have a team that does the deployment of the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of New Relic could improve. It is expensive.
I rate the price of New Relic a six out of ten.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have not evaluated other solutions.
What other advice do I have?
One administrator can handle the maintenance on the weekends.
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate New Relic a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
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A well-integrated solution good for notification and customization
Pros and Cons
- "The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy to track and easy to follow."
- "The scalability can be improved."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case for the solution is notification, customization, and everything from New Relic. Before adding a monitoring tool to New Relic APM, we need to add a subscription and specify the target we want to add, and this is a blank dashboard where we have to select, step by step, which modelling we want to understand. The solution is very similar to Azure monitor.
What is most valuable?
The new release is very valuable because it is well integrated.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution for approximately two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good but can be improved.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy to track and easy to follow. It's somewhat like creating a graph where drag and drop features.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the solution an eight out of ten. The solution is good, but the scalability can be improved.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
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Director - Operations at FranConnect LLC
Reliable, good support, and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "The stability of New Relic APM is very good."
- "New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided."
What needs improvement?
New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic APM for approximately six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of New Relic APM is very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of New Relic APM is good. We have not had any issue with scalability when we use different types of loads, it worked very well.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support from New Relic APM is very good.
What was our ROI?
The ROI from using New Relic APM is good.
What other advice do I have?
I rate New Relic APM an eight out of ten.
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System Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In-depth reports, reliable, and straightforward installation
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature is the ability to receive in-depth information about applications. It can detect a lot of important information."
- "The solution could improve by having more network monitoring features, such as for all the infrastructure."
What is our primary use case?
We are using New Relic APM to monitor our production application and to get some insight into performance.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the ability to receive in-depth information about applications. It can detect a lot of important information.
What needs improvement?
The solution could improve by having more network monitoring features, such as for all the infrastructure.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using New Relic APM for approximately six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability has been fine.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable. We had a lot of infrastructure at the beginning and it worked well.
How are customer service and support?
The support could improve because they are not very fast and the information was not very accurate.
I would rate the technical support a three out of five.
How was the initial setup?
The installation is straightforward, and it only took approximately one month.
What about the implementation team?
Our office did the implementation of the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of the solution could be less expensive. You have to pay a lot for each user. There is an additional cost for extra features.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others is this solution is working fine for me and it might most likely be for you too.
I rate New Relic APM a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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Product Manager Cloud at Pricer
User-friendly with good insights and an overall good product
Pros and Cons
- "Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly."
- "It would be nice if there were pre-made dashboards."
What is our primary use case?
Basically, I'm helping a customer of mine to set up monitoring items. What I'm doing is comparing solutions in order to create a document that I can give them so that they can pick one final solution.
What is most valuable?
The client is looking for infrastructure and for an application.
So far, we like the insights.
Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly.
Overall, it's a good product, from what we have evaluated.
Currently, we're more in the process of gathering materials. The solution is quite new for us.
What needs improvement?
I haven't yet had too much of a chance to read up on the product or to compare it to other solutions to see if there are items that are standard elsewhere but lacking in this product. I need more time with the solution to really talk about any shortcomings if they exist at all.
It would be nice if there were pre-made dashboards. There should be out-of-the-box options that you can have. It would be nice to have something already done, so that you don't need to reinvent the wheel again, to create your own dashboard.
The pricing might be high if you are a company that goes through a lot of data.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for about two years or so.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We're working on figuring out the pricing.
It looks like it's a little bit about how much data you ingest. Therefore, if you have a big environment, then it might not be good to ingest that month, as that much data will cost you a lot.
On the other hand, Dynatrace has a good set of features where you can trace down to the application. However, they are more expensive they don't have some dashboards and cost is an issue for the client.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I'm also looking at Dynatrace and Datadog.
The thing is all of these three solutions are doing the same thing. It depends. What we're currently comparing is pricing and if they work for the company on a budget level. We want to see what offers the most for the best rate. We're still trying to figure that out.
What other advice do I have?
I'm just a consultant. I'm not a partner or a user of the solution.
I'm not sure if I have any specific advice to a company considering this solution as we are still in the early days of considering of this solution is the right fit. However, it's important to go through the process and examine a solution according to your company's unique needs. What works for our client might not work for everyone and vice versa. There needs to be a bit of research.
In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's a good product. It just depends on what you need as a company.
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Owner at RP reaaliprosessi
Easy to use, gets the job done, and provides good breakdown and in-depth details
Pros and Cons
- "The breakdown of the response time of different components and getting in-depth details of the slow component are the most valuable features. It is easy to use, and it gets the job done."
- "There has been some problem with the agent, and it is just not working well. It is not able to record information with the application server. They have been able to fix the issue, but it took quite a long time. This is the main issue in the APM products and also in New Relic. The mobile application monitoring has been pretty difficult to set up and also quite expensive. It should be a little bit easier and cheaper. Because it is pretty difficult and expensive, many customers don't take it."
What is our primary use case?
We are basically testing three products before going live with the new release of the software. We are also using it to monitor our production.
How has it helped my organization?
You can immediately see if there is some slowness. It can also alert you, and you can fix the problem pretty soon. In pre-production, you can ensure that everything is okay, and you don't put the worst performance to production. The performance should at least be at the same level as before.
What is most valuable?
The breakdown of the response time of different components and getting in-depth details of the slow component are the most valuable features.
It is easy to use, and it gets the job done.
What needs improvement?
There has been some problem with the agent, and it is just not working well. It is not able to record information with the application server. They have been able to fix the issue, but it took quite a long time. This is the main issue in the APM products and also in New Relic.
The mobile application monitoring has been pretty difficult to set up and also quite expensive. It should be a little bit easier and cheaper. Because it is pretty difficult and expensive, many customers don't take it.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for four years.
How are customer service and technical support?
Their technical support is pretty good. Sometimes, they took longer than I hoped. There were times when they took a couple of days, but I got help, and it is working.
What other advice do I have?
They seem to have a new pricing model, and I would advise others to look out and ask them before buying.
The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that you don't always guess right. Without APM, you can guess where the problem is, but with APM, you can actually see where it is, which is nice to know.
I would rate New Relic APM a nine out of ten. It is a good product. There might be another product that is better than this, but this is the product that I use and recommend first.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Cloud Solution Architect at FCamara
Stable with a good VPN and very easy to set up
Pros and Cons
- "The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us."
- "The older view is much better than the new view that they have. We'd like to go back to that previous version. The user interface just isn't as nice as it used to be."
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use the solution for watching user behavior, among other use cases.
What is most valuable?
The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us.
We like that we have the ability to view users and speculate.
The initial setup is very easy.
What needs improvement?
The older view is much better than the new view that they have. We'd like to go back to that previous version. The user interface just isn't as nice as it used to be.
The solution does not seem to be lacking any features. I can't say that I recommend any specific features for the next release.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for about 2 months, more or less. It hasn't been too long just yet.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of the solution has been good for us so far. We don't have any problems with it. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We've found the scaling to be good. If a company needs to expand it, it should be able to do so without any problems.
Currently, we have four or five people using the solution. Our company, however, works for my customers, and therefore we have a lot of ongoing projects.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support has been good so far. That said, we haven't really had any technical issues either. We're satisfied with the level of service we've received so far.
How was the initial setup?
We didn't find the initial setup complex. The implementation was straightforward and simple.
The deployment was pretty quick as well. It might have taken us one to two hours to get everything done.
What other advice do I have?
We're just customers. We're end-users. We don't have a business relationship with the company.
I would recommend the solution to other organizations. We've had a good experience with it so far.
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the solution at a ten. It's pretty much perfect for our purposes.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
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Database Administrator at a music company with 51-200 employees
Good drill-down functionality let us see through to SQL code, and it integrates well with Slack
Pros and Cons
- "We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right."
- "There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search."
What is our primary use case?
We were using New Relic Synthetics to test our application, which retrieved data from the web on a daily basis. Our second use case was that it helped us to isolate any bad code.
You put the hooks in for the website as a database, and you can drill down into all of the offending code. You can even go down into the SQL. We were running an Oracle database and I was the DBA, so the SQL level was my responsibility.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature was drill-downs. I was able to use it to drill-down into the SQL, get the response time, as well as the allocation based on IO, CPU, and the other resources attached to the SQL queries.
We were able to integrate with the messaging tool, Slack, which meant that we got notifications whenever something was not quite right.
What needs improvement?
There are certain features that are not supported in New Relic, such as CATSEARCH, which allows you to do a full-text search. Certain things like this would have helped me a little bit.
For how long have I used the solution?
We used New Relic Synthetics for at least a year, up until the end of 2019.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's a stable solution and we never had a problem with it.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to New Relic, we were using some Oracle tools such as AWR. Although they were useful, they were not really proactive. New Relic is a more proactive tool, as it were.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved in the initial setup, but it was done in-house by one person. It took at least half a week to complete it. This included setting up the service, and Slack integration. It took a nice amount of time, in total.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I loved this product, but we can no longer afford it, so we dropped it.
What other advice do I have?
Honestly, at first, I was very hesitant about using this product. My advice is to learn to use it and learn all of the features because it has many of them, not all of which are documented, but they work wonders. For us, they really helped a lot.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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