Alternatives to New Relic
APM pioneer with usage pricing
New Relic ranks #3 of 9 in Infrastructure monitoring, with an Alt Score of 91. It is proprietary and available on the web. 10 of 10 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams responsible for the uptime and performance of applications and infrastructure, from small startups to large enterprises running distributed or cloud-native systems.
A unified observability platform that ingests metrics, logs, and traces into one correlated view. It covers APM, infrastructure and Kubernetes monitoring, log management, browser/mobile digital experience monitoring, and database monitoring, plus customizable dashboards and alerting. AI features (AI monitoring, an SRE agent, AIOps) help detect anomalies and assist with incident response.
You sign up and connect your applications, infrastructure, and cloud accounts using one of 800+ integrations or OpenTelemetry, after which New Relic collects and correlates telemetry data into dashboards, alerts, and AI-assisted insights. Pricing is usage-based by data ingestion and user seats, with a free tier including 100GB of monthly ingestion.
Where New Relic stands out
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Feature comparison
Rows come from the Infrastructure monitoring checklist (14 rows). Human-verified cells only. ? means the value has not been verified.
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Every fact and feature listed for New Relic is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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Pricing model Usage-based verified 2026-07-10
Usage-based pricing for full-stack, Intelligent Observability
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Starts at $0.40/GB ingested verified 2026-07-10
$0.40/GB ingested
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Platforms Web verified 2026-07-10
To access New Relic, go to one.newrelic.com.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/introduction-new-relic-platform/ -
License Proprietary verified 2026-07-10
New Relic grants to Customer during the Subscription Term the right to use and access the Service for its internal business purposes only in accordance with the Documentation, Order, and this Agreemen
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Status active verified 2026-07-10
Added the nroracledbreceiver, nrsqlserverreceiver, secretsmanagerprovider, and aesprovider for database monitoring capabilities.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/docs-release-notes/docs-7-3-2026/ -
Metrics collection Yes verified 2026-07-10
In the software monitoring industry, a metric means a numeric measurement of an application or system. Metrics are typically reported on a regular schedule.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/ -
Dashboards Yes verified 2026-07-10
build and share tailored user-friendly charts and visualizations
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/dashboards/introduction-dashboards/ -
Alerting rules Yes verified 2026-07-10
Configure any signal to be evaluated against a threshold, or if it exhibits abnormal behavior.
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Log aggregation Yes verified 2026-07-10
New Relic offers a fast, scalable log management platform so you can connect your logs with the rest of your telemetry and infrastructure data in a single place.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/logs/log-management/get-started/get-started-log-management/ -
Tracing / APM Yes verified 2026-07-10
Distributed tracing tracks and observes service requests as they flow through distributed systems.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/distributed-tracing/concepts/introduction-distributed-tracing/ -
Self-hostable No verified 2026-07-10
New Relic's global data hosting structure consists of two regions: the European Union (EU) region and the United States (US) region.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/account-setup/choose-your-data-center/ -
Agent footprint Yes verified 2026-07-10
It collects performance and health data about system resources and processes.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/introduction-infra-monitoring/ -
Integrations count Yes verified 2026-07-10
now offers integrations with 500+ cloud services, open source tools, and enterprise technologies to empower every engineer to start with observability in minutes.
https://newrelic.com/press-release/20221215 -
Free tier limits Yes verified 2026-07-10
100 GB of free data ingest per month
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High-availability setup Yes verified 2026-07-10
New Relic will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain Service Availability of at least 99.8% during any calendar month.
https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/licenses/license-information/referenced-policies/service-level-availability-commitment/
FAQ
Yes. checkmk, Grafana and Zabbix have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
checkmk, Netdata and Grafana — every license claim links its source.