New Relic alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of New Relic, shown against it.

New Relic Datadog Dynatrace Honeycomb IBM Instana
Vendor New Relic, Inc. Datadog, Inc. Dynatrace, Inc. Honeycomb.io IBM
Pricing model Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based Free tier + paid plans Usage-based
Free tier Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No No No No
Best for Teams that want a single ingest-priced data platform across APM, infra and logs without per-host math. Platform and SRE teams that want a single managed SaaS covering infra, APM, logs and RUM without operating their own backend. Large enterprises wanting automated topology discovery and AI root-cause analysis across a complex, heterogeneous estate. Engineering teams debugging live production issues by slicing high-cardinality request data rather than watching fixed dashboards. Microservice/Kubernetes shops that want zero-config APM with second-level metric granularity.
Pricing

Free up to 100GB/month and one full user; beyond that, priced per full-platform user seat plus per-GB data ingest overage.

Free $0
Standard - full user $99/user/month
Pro - full user $349/user/month
Data overage $0.40/GB

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Billed per product (infra hosts, APM hosts, log GB ingested plus indexed events, custom metrics) — costs compound as you enable more modules.

Infrastructure Pro $15/host/month
Infrastructure Enterprise $23/host/month
APM $31/host/month
Log Management ingest $0.10/GB

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Consumption pricing per hour for compute (hosts, pods, containers) plus per-GiB for logs/traces and per-1,000 for RUM sessions and synthetic actions.

Infrastructure Monitoring $0.04/host-hour
Full-Stack Monitoring $0.01/memory-GiB-hour
Log Management (pay-per-query) $0.20/GiB ingest
Real User Monitoring $2.25 per 1,000 sessions

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free up to 20M events/month; paid plans meter by monthly event and metrics-datapoint volume, with unlimited seats on every tier.

Free $0
Pro from $150/month
Enterprise custom

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Billed per Managed Virtual Server (MVS) per hour, month or year depending on commitment; a 14-day free trial is available.

PayPerUse from $0.03/MVS-hour
SaaS from $21.20/MVS/month
Self-Hosted from $385.20/MVS/year

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • APM with distributed tracing across 15+ languages
  • Infrastructure monitoring and Kubernetes visibility
  • Log management unified with traces and metrics in one query language (NRQL)
  • Browser and mobile real user monitoring
  • AI-assisted anomaly detection and incident correlation
  • Custom dashboards and alerting workflows
  • Serverless and OpenTelemetry-native ingestion
  • Infrastructure and container monitoring with 800+ vendor integrations
  • Distributed tracing and APM with code-level flame graphs
  • Log management with unified tagging across metrics, traces and logs
  • Real user monitoring and session replay
  • Synthetic monitoring for API and browser checks
  • Custom dashboards and Watchdog anomaly detection
  • Cloud Security Management for posture and workload signals
  • OneAgent auto-instrumentation with zero manual config
  • Smartscape topology mapping across the full stack
  • Davis AI for automated root-cause analysis
  • Unified log, metric, trace and RUM ingestion (OpenTelemetry-native)
  • Runtime application security and vulnerability analytics
  • Synthetic browser and HTTP monitoring
  • Kubernetes and cloud-native platform observability
  • Wide-event, high-cardinality query model (BubbleUp)
  • OpenTelemetry-native trace and event ingestion
  • Service Level Objectives with burn-alerts
  • Unlimited seats on every plan
  • Query-time correlation without predefined dashboards
  • Honeycomb telemetry pipeline for routing/filtering before storage
  • Fully automated discovery and configuration (no manual agent config)
  • 1-second metric granularity
  • Automatic dependency mapping and root-cause analysis
  • Logs in context of traces
  • Synthetic monitoring add-on
  • SaaS, self-hosted or pay-per-use deployment

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