New Relic APM Reviews

PROS: We were on the long run looking for a tool which can really improve the performance of our websites. We left this problem in the past with New Relic, and we have great servers to prove that it is actually working. I’ve honestly never used a better tool for the purpose! Our company is an admirer of their detail accuracy, knowing as much as the timeline of a triggered webpage (we know exactly how much it takes for data to be presented to users, and we can interpret every delay accurately). The ultimate result is full exposure of dysfunctional codes and queries, and you won’t be sitting on the fence too long before asking a dev team to deal with it. I must say I’d be lost without these New Relic’s reports. Obviously, code optimization doesn’t carry the can for every webpage’s malicious performance, but in case it does we know it. That’s why we rely on New Relic so badly: the review features are the best they can get. It really helps. It just does!

CONS: I was thinking about this, but nothing crossed my mind. I think all features work well. Maybe they should be more innovative in terms of availability, a mobile app or a Mac version, per se. The tool is so good that I think everyone should be able to track performance with it, wherever they are. I would really like those versions for myself.

PROS: If this is your first encounter with New Relic, forget about me and ‘run’ to their website! You might be missing on the most innovative tool for active analysis and software development. I’ve honestly never worked with something so perfect and I believe it is an investment for the future of every company. One of the things New Relic des for you is to log every app error with detailed explanation (the headers, the timing, the request parameter, or even the response), and you’ll have all data in one place. Instead of recapturing two years of previous work to detect where you went wrong, install it, and you’ll have all data on types, dates, duration and responses on errors right in front of you. New Relic will even calculate the frequency of errors, and will suggest solutions. I thought this was impossible before. It’s not all about errors, though. New Relic pays attention to the quality of your performance, measuring response time and coming up with accomplishment rates. It is the profiling tool of the future, with insight in every method, and with a great comparison capability. It will help you determine the best method for each request, and will detect any implementation issue neglected during your submission. It will send you email alerts whenever the app crashes, or it detects some type of unusual behavior. Let me tell you that no configuration threshold can beat that. The icing is the configuration: perfect, perfect, perfect!

CONS: That sounded like a fairytale, didn’t it? Unluckily, for some, the fairytale doesn’t have a happy ending. On-budget firms may find it appropriate to sacrifice quality for price. I understand it; the price is not modest after all. Still, if you tried it and you liked how the thing went, or better yet if it deployed your app on Heroku, call the support team and negotiate the price. It can be painful to buy it on your own.

PROS: New Relic is the service of the future! They are the school example on how to analyze web apps (sql executions, javascripts, etc), how to stay in control of performance, how to detect mistakes before users notice them, and how to make your websites/apps visually appealing. We are so lucky to have New Relic to help us monitor our work, and at the same time surprised by its simplicity and easy installation.

CONS: Good things cost, and New Relic makes that quite obvious. I wouldn’t complain much about it, but I would warn you that php installations are not as laid on the line as one would expect. Nothing else to say here.