Developer Tools Review
New Relic
Deep Dive Analysis
New Relic is a full observability platform covering application performance, infrastructure, logs and browser monitoring. The pricing model charges per user and per gigabyte of data ingested.
Target Audience
Teams that want application, infrastructure and log monitoring from a single vendor.
The Final Verdict
"Capable and complete. Watch the ingest bill: teams are far more often surprised by cost here than by capability."
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What we checked
Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.
