Performance Monitoring

New Relic vs Prometheus

New Relic17.4K Stacks

Prometheus2K Stacks

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Pros of New Relic

Pros of Prometheus

40
Powerful easy to use monitoring
38
Flexible query language
31
Dimensional data model
22
Alerts
21
Active and responsive community
18
Easy to setup
18
Extensive integrations
11
Beautiful Model and Query language
7
Easy to extend
6
Nice
3
Written in Go
1
Good for experimentation
1
Easy for monitoring

Cons of New Relic

Cons of Prometheus

18
Pricing model doesn't suit microservices
10
UI isn't great
7
Expensive
7
Visualizations aren't very helpful
5
Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

8
Just for metrics
5
Needs monitoring to access metrics endpoints
4
Bad UI
2
Supports only active agents
2
Written in Go
2
Not easy to configure and use
1
Requires multiple applications and tools
1
TLS is quite difficult to understand

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