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Systems Engineer at GRIFFIN Solutions Group
Real User
It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously
Pros and Cons
  • "It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously."
  • "Server uptime is its most valuable feature."
  • "We have had issues with our agents going offline."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for server monitoring and strictly for our EC2 instances.

How has it helped my organization?

It has helped us maintain a much higher uptime than we had previously.

It fulfills the need that we had for the product.

What is most valuable?

Server uptime is its most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

We have had issues with our agents going offline.

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For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

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?

Our environment has 25 servers.

How are customer service and support?

The help from the technical support has always been good.

How was the initial setup?

We have to install an agent on each of our instances.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

New Relic was the main product that we looked at.

What other advice do I have?

If you are looking for this specific type of application to keep a record of your inventory, then it does exactly what it is supposed to do.

We use their cloud version of it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Software Developer at Cox Automotive Inc.
Real User
It visualizes metrics well and tracks our incoming requests, providing a lot of detail for troubleshooting
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a one stop shop and integrated with PagerDuty seamlessly. The solution is pretty self-contained."
  • "We would like to receive more AWS-specific details from the New Relic Dashboard, like EC2 health."

What is our primary use case?

  • Mostly monitoring
  • Analytics
  • Troubleshooting
  • PagerDuty

How has it helped my organization?

  • It visualizes metrics well and tracks our incoming requests, providing a lot of detail which is useful for troubleshooting. 
  • It can track cross-application, knowing when you go from one application to another, like a request stop. 
  • It's very visually appealing and useful.

What is most valuable?

It is a one stop shop and integrates with PagerDuty seamlessly. The solution is pretty self-contained.

What needs improvement?

We would like to receive more AWS-specific details from the New Relic Dashboard, like EC2 health.

For how long have I used the solution?

Less than one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I haven't seen any problems with it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is good. We are using it at an enterprise level and have 20 companies in our corporation.

How is customer service and technical support?

It has a good presence on the Internet, in terms of support and community. Answers are out there and easy enough to find.

What about the implementation team?

The AWS integration was seamless for us. It was implementing stuff that other people have done so many times before, and the team which headed it up knew what they were doing. From my understanding, there was very minimal configuration. Maybe there was more on the New Relic side, but as far as feeding it, it was pretty easy.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We were also looking at CloudWatch and a homegrown performance-type solution.

We chose New Relic because it is all-inclusive. It has everything right there.

What other advice do I have?

I just starting using it, but the product is pretty impressive.

We are hosting it through AWS.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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VAP & IT Planning & Optimization Responsible at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
We have a mode we call "influx" where we can see statistics, traffic jams or other important information.
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the ability to manage the application flow."
  • "It is stable and scalable."
  • "In addition, its difficult to have a predictive tool to see how the application would behave in the future when it basically only shows the historical data."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use is for data application monitor, we used to add some backlogs into the application to see where the progress or the border makes in the process. So far, it is a good program.

What is most valuable?

I think it is the possibility to see the application flow, and gives us suggestions how to manage it. We have a mode we call "influx" where we can see statistics, traffic jams or other important information.

What needs improvement?

I think the APM mode can be improved. 

In addition, its difficult to have a predictive tool to see how the application would behave in the future when it basically only shows the historical data.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is very sclable.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at Dynatrace. We analyzed the differences between New Relic and Dynatrace and we realized that New Relic was easier to implement and that our Miami office had experience to do so. They had already started using it there, in the Operations office. So, we went with New Relic.

What other advice do I have?

In my opinion, New Relic is a good tool, and if a colleague was asking my opinion, I would say "Go ahead and use it!" It is a good solution.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Information Technology Director at Ontegrity
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It allows us to perform threshold testing to see how quickly transactions are getting out to customers, providing us with data such as response time and adequacy.

What is most valuable?

We used it more heavily before Synthetics came, but it’s kind of like Synthetics, but used domestically.

It allows us to perform threshold testing to see how quickly transactions are getting out to customers, providing us with data such as response time and adequacy.

Our software does significant data queries, so we throttle performance according to region just to keep the application up. Now we can open it up completely because of New Relic tools.

Ability to quickly identify different browser usage performance issues across our application functions. Again saves time in coding to enhance the end user experience.

How has it helped my organization?

It enables us to fine-tune our application quicker. It's also better if we find issues in our application than if our customers find it.

It also prevents performance issues because we're able to see potential issues before they cause real problems.

What needs improvement?

I can't recommend any improvements to Browser. I really can’t find anything that I don’t like about these apps.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Deployment was very simple.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've encountered no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling has not been a problem.

How is customer service and technical support?

I've not had to use technical support.

How was the initial setup?

We had no problems setting it up.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Information Technology Director at Ontegrity
Consultant
It replicates testing, and we have a much higher level of functional and scripted testing across our application. We can execute test cases as they’re meant to be.

What is most valuable?

It has the ability to simulate real-world testing outside of the US, emulating conditions outside the US with remote-access. The rest of world doesn’t have internet the way we do. Because we’re a cloud-based solution, it doesn’t perform consistently the same because of internet issues in other countries.

When our app passes critical threshold, can quickly go to Transactions and/or Database views and immediately see the code areas causing the issue. Saves so much time in debugging our code and environments.

Allows us to test and monitor performance for our international deployments in Asia and Central America throughout the release cycle.

How has it helped my organization?

It replicates testing, and we have a much higher level of functional and scripted testing across our application. We can execute test cases as they’re meant to be.

What needs improvement?

I honestly can't think of any areas for improvement. It's a complete solution that gets a 10/10 in my book. I really can’t find anything that I don’t like about these apps.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues with deployment at all.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've encountered no issue with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There have been no issues with scalability.

How is customer service and technical support?

Once I had to file a support ticket which was resolved on the same day. It may have been a setup ticket for the kind of test we wanted to run.

How was the initial setup?

We had no problems setting it up as it was very straightforward.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We didn't consider any other solution.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Engineering Manager at Survox
Vendor
It revealed where our code was insufficient or needed to be refactored, but most importantly, it told us where we had latency in throughput and response time.
Pros and Cons
  • "The most important thing is that it tells us where the latency in throughput and response time are."

    How has it helped my organization?

    It helps us keep our customers happy, that’s the bottom line. When it responds the way they expect, they’re happy.

    What is most valuable?

    It shows us where the bottlenecks are in our code. It was great to reveal where our code was insufficient or needs to be refactored. The most important thing is that it tells us where the latency in throughput and response time are.

    What needs improvement?

    What we have we’re happy with, but we’re still evaluating.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    Very stable. Never had any issues.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    Very extensible. Support and QA can look at the parts they care about and that allows for feedback and communication across the teams. It’s been great for our support team.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Never had to contact them.

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

    We knew that we were going to move into SaaS, and these are the kinds of tools we’re going to need to get there.

    How was the initial setup?

    Very straightforward. In this day and age, that’s what you expect from a service like that. Being able to set my alerts and the thresholds for those alerts is very intuitive.

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

    We look at what it produces – I don’t look at cost. We look at what you can get from the product. If it’s the right tool, it doesn’t matter what it costs because you’re going to get it back many-fold from your productivity.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    New Relic was it. We looked at other things we could put together ourselves, but they weren’t the full package. Something like this is all-inclusive; it’s a one-step.

    We look for their reputation, how many people are using the solution. When your peers talk about it, you know that’s something you should consider. Knowing also who their customers are and how long they’ve been around is important.

    What other advice do I have?

    The ease of use, the information you can get out of it from the very little things you do – you get so much out of it. It’s very intuitive. You don’t have to read a manual – you just use it.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    Wonderful product

    APM products are something that needs to be well-tailored to your specific needs and environment. for the project i'm currently working on, we chose new relic after a bakeoff with another vendor. both products were great, but new relic came up on top and we've been very happy with the insights it provides.

    This review assumes one is familiar with APM and will not cover the basic benefits of New Relic as an APM product.

    Strong points:

    New Relic was very easy to deploy and had minimal impact on our environments. Visibility was near-total out of the box and support was extremely helpful in adding the missing instrumentation into the product.

    New Relic supports a good mix of environments which is important to us as we work with several languages.

    Support for background tasks is also an important feature for us which is usually not as well-covered in other products.

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    Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
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    We utilize the APM, BROWSER, and INSIGHTS dashboards on a daily basis.

    How has it helped my organization?

    The New Relic toolset has become part of our SDLC -- reviewing the changes we made for impact to the production environment. It's been a valuable asset to identify areas for improvement in our application.

    What is most valuable?

    We utilize the APM, BROWSER, and INSIGHTS dashboards on a daily basis to monitor the health and performance of our application.

    What needs improvement?

    We really love the INSIGHTS query and dashboarding capabilities. It would be great to see this expand even further with more options for querying.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    None at all.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    No.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Customer Service:

    10 -- New Relic has been very responsive and helpful when we've had to contact them.... and it was mostly about 'how do I do xxx' and not related to product problems.

    Technical Support:

    10/10

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

    No.

    How was the initial setup?

    Very easy -- install the agent and reload the dashboard!

    What about the implementation team?

    In-house

    What was our ROI?

    Improved product performance and customer satisfaction.

    What other advice do I have?

    Don't be hesitant to reach out to New Relic in the pre-sales process to ask questions for help.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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