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New Relic
Full-stack observability — metrics, logs, traces, and errors in one platform.
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At a Glance
| Attribute | New Relic | Elastic Observability |
|---|---|---|
| License / Pricing | Free-Limited | Free-Limited |
| Type | DevOps | DevOps |
| GitHub Stars | — | — |
| Rating | 4.4/5 | 4.3/5 |
| Key Features | 6 listed | 6 listed |
| Integrations | 5 listed | 5 listed |
| Categories | ObservabilityMonitoring | ObservabilityMonitoringLogging |
Key Features
New Relic
- APM with distributed tracing for 15+ languages
- Unified telemetry: metrics, logs, events, and traces in one query interface
- NRQL — New Relic Query Language for flexible data exploration
- Synthetics for proactive endpoint monitoring from 20+ global locations
- Error inbox for tracking and triaging application errors
- AIOps: intelligent alert correlation to reduce notification noise
Elastic Observability
- Elasticsearch for fast, scalable log and metric storage
- Kibana for visualisation, dashboards, and alert management
- Elastic APM for distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
- Beats and Elastic Agent for lightweight data collection from any source
- Machine learning for anomaly detection on log and metric streams
- OpenTelemetry compatible for vendor-neutral data ingestion
Real-World Use Cases
New Relic
Root cause analysis for a production incident
Alert fires on a spike in error rate detected by New Relic APM
Kubernetes cluster observability
Deploy the New Relic infrastructure agent as a DaemonSet
Elastic Observability
Centralised log management for microservices
Deploy Filebeat as a DaemonSet to collect container logs from all Kubernetes nodes
APM tracing for a Python application
Install the Elastic APM Python agent: pip install elastic-apm
Integrations
New Relic
kubernetesprometheusgrafanaelastic-observabilityansible
Elastic Observability
kubernetesprometheusgrafanadatadogansible
🏆 Which should you choose?
Choose New Relic if…
- → you're already in the Observability ecosystem and prefer New Relic's workflow
Choose Elastic Observability if…
- → you're already in the Observability ecosystem and prefer Elastic Observability's workflow