Alternatives to New Relic
A hosted observability platform for application performance, infrastructure, logs and alerting, with a free tier. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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New Relic
A hosted observability platform for application performance, infrastructure, logs and alerting, with a free tier.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as New Relic.
SigNoz
Open-source full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse.
SigNoz is an open-source self-hosted platform combining APM, logs, traces and metrics on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, so data stays with you but you run it.
Site24x7
A hosted monitoring service for websites, servers, networks and cloud platforms with alerts on downtime.
Site24x7 is another hosted freemium service covering websites, servers, networks, applications and cloud, with monitoring data kept by the vendor.
OpenObserve
Collect logs, metrics and traces in a unified observability application.
OpenObserve is AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted to collect logs, metrics and traces in one application, with separate pricing for hosted and enterprise features.
Uptrace
Explore traces, metrics and logs collected through OpenTelemetry.
Uptrace is an AGPL-3.0 self-hosted tool for exploring OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs, requiring your own instrumentation and storage.
HyperDX
Investigate application failures using linked logs, traces and related telemetry.
HyperDX is MIT-licensed and can run on your own infrastructure, linking logs and traces for debugging production failures.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
OneUptime is Apache-2.0 and self-hostable, combining logs, metrics and traces with uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call alerting.
Coroot
Investigate application behavior using automatically collected observability data.
Coroot is Apache-2.0 self-hosted observability that combines service views, metrics and traces using eBPF collection on compatible Linux hosts.
Apache SkyWalking
Observe distributed applications through traces, metrics and related service information.
Apache SkyWalking is free Apache-2.0 self-hosted application performance monitoring using traces and metrics, needing collectors and instrumentation you deploy.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
Prometheus
Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules.
Jaeger
Follow requests across services to investigate distributed-system latency.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
OpenTelemetry Collector
Receive, process and export telemetry through a vendor-neutral collector.
Seq
A self-hosted server for searching, analysing and alerting on structured logs, traces and metrics.
