Distributed Tracing

New Relic is an established leader in the performance monitoring space, based in San Francisco and founded in 2008.

Pricing

Free tier available; Essentials plan starts at $0.30 per GB ingested, visit website for details.

Things To Consider

Cost at Scale: Pricing can become significant at larger scales or higher data volumes.

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Benefits

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New Relic is an established leader in the performance monitoring space, based in San Francisco and founded in 2008. The platform offers a suite of cloud-based observability and analytics tools that provide deep visibility into software and infrastructure performance. Known for its detailed application performance insights, New Relic helps developers, operations, and management teams understand and improve the performance of their applications.

Open Source: No, New Relic is a proprietary commercial product, though it supports open standards for data ingestion.
SDK: Proprietary SDK but supports Open Telemetry SDK
Benefits:
- End-to-End Transaction Visibility: Excellent for tracking user requests across the full stack.
- Service Dependency Mapping: Visualizes interactions and dependencies between services clearly.
- Performance Trending and Anomaly Detection: Advanced analytics tools identify trends and detect anomalies.
Community Feedback: Highly praised for its comprehensive capabilities and integrations, though some users mention the learning curve and cost.