Best New Relic Alternatives
The top-ranked New Relic alternative is Datadog (Subscription). The best free option is Prometheus (open source).
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.
1A cloud monitoring platform covering infrastructure, APM, logs, and error tracking.
2An open-source observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces dashboards.
3An open-source monitoring system and time-series database for metrics.
Dynatrace
SubscriptionAn AI-powered observability platform for full-stack monitoring.
An error tracking and performance monitoring platform for developers.
Grafana Cloud (with Loki/Tempo)
FreemiumA managed observability stack for metrics, logs, and traces.
Elastic Observability
FreemiumObservability built on the Elastic Stack for metrics, logs, and traces.
AppDynamics
SubscriptionCisco's application performance monitoring platform for enterprises.
Splunk
SubscriptionA platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine data and logs.
Honeycomb
FreemiumAn observability tool focused on high-cardinality tracing and debugging.
SigNoz
Open SourceAn open-source observability platform for APM, logs, and traces.
Grafana competitor Uptrace
Open SourceAn open-source APM and distributed tracing tool built on OpenTelemetry.
New Relic alternatives: FAQ
What is the best alternative to New Relic?
Datadog is ranked first on this list (Subscription). The ranking combines our base score with readers' votes, so it can change.
What is the best free alternative to New Relic?
The highest-ranked free or open-source options here are Prometheus, SigNoz and Grafana competitor Uptrace.
Which New Relic alternatives work on Mac?
Elastic Observability run on macOS.
Which New Relic alternatives work on Linux?
Prometheus, Elastic Observability, SigNoz and Grafana competitor Uptrace run on Linux.
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