Alternatives

Alternatives to New Relic

5 Observability & Monitoring rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — New Relic itself ranks #4 with a PA Score of 29/100. Every “beats New Relic on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

#1
Grafana
Grafana Labs
PA Score 39/100vs New Relic →
coverage
41.2/100
Beats New Relic on: Self-host the core product · Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
#2
Sentry
Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry)
PA Score 35/100vs New Relic →
coverage
35.5/100
Beats New Relic on: See application errors grouped into issues with stack traces, release tracking, and regression detection · Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
#3
Honeycomb
Hound Technology, Inc. (Honeycomb)
PA Score 30/100vs New Relic →
coverage
34.4/100
Beats New Relic on: Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs · Send telemetry directly over OTLP with first-class OpenTelemetry support
#5
Datadog
Datadog, Inc.
PA Score 27/100vs New Relic →
coverage
33.5/100
Beats New Relic on: Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs · Alert on any telemetry signal with routing, grouping, and silencing of notifications
#6
SigNoz
SigNoz, Inc.
PA Score 23/100vs New Relic →
coverage
29.5/100
Beats New Relic on: Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs · Send telemetry directly over OTLP with first-class OpenTelemetry support

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