Best New Relic Alternatives

New Relic is an observability platform for monitoring applications, infrastructure, and logs. People seek alternatives for pricing, simpler setups, open-source stacks, or specific monitoring needs.

12 alternativesObservability & APMUpvote the ones you rate — the list re-ranks by votes.
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#1

Datadog

Subscription

A cloud monitoring platform covering infrastructure, APM, logs, and error tracking.

Web
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#2

Grafana

Freemium

An open-source observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces dashboards.

Web
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#3

Prometheus

Open Source

An open-source monitoring system and time-series database for metrics.

LinuxWeb
#4

Dynatrace

Subscription

An AI-powered observability platform for full-stack monitoring.

Web
#5

Sentry

Freemium

An error tracking and performance monitoring platform for developers.

Web
#6

Grafana Cloud (with Loki/Tempo)

Freemium

A managed observability stack for metrics, logs, and traces.

Web
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Elastic Observability

Freemium

Observability built on the Elastic Stack for metrics, logs, and traces.

WindowsmacOSLinuxWeb
#8

AppDynamics

Subscription

Cisco's application performance monitoring platform for enterprises.

Web
#9

Splunk

Subscription

A platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine data and logs.

Web
#10

Honeycomb

Freemium

An observability tool focused on high-cardinality tracing and debugging.

Web
#11

SigNoz

Open Source

An open-source observability platform for APM, logs, and traces.

WebLinux
#12

Grafana competitor Uptrace

Open Source

An open-source APM and distributed tracing tool built on OpenTelemetry.

WebLinux

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