New Relic alternative
Best New Relic alternatives in 2026
Teams searching for a New Relic alternative usually want one of two things: comparable observability with a pricing model that behaves better as data and headcount grow, or a simpler tool because they were only ever using New Relic for uptime, API, database and server checks. Those are different problems, so the list below separates them. Every option says what it is genuinely good at and where it will disappoint you, ours included.
- Included, even on Free
- Customer status pagesNew Relic: Via Statuspage.io
- Flat monthly
- Pricing modelNew Relic: Data ingest + users / compute
- Monitoring & incidents
- Best forNew Relic: Full-stack observability
Best for: Teams paying observability prices for monitoring, incidents and status pages
Not in New Relic
- Branded public status pages
- Status pages driven by the same checks
- Flat, predictable monthly bill
- No per-GB ingest meter
If New Relic is mostly watching uptime, API, database and server health for you, and the ingest and user meters are the problem, this covers that core job at a flat monthly price. It adds incident management with escalation policies, AI-written incident briefings and post-mortems, and branded public status pages with email subscribers. Database monitoring runs real queries against PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis, so you catch a primary that accepts connections but cannot serve them.
Start freeFlat monthly tiers, free to start
6 New Relic alternatives, compared
Our pick
NoDisrupt
OursBest for: Teams paying observability prices for monitoring, incidents and status pages
If New Relic is mostly watching uptime, API, database and server health for you, and the ingest and user meters are the problem, this covers that core job at a flat monthly price. It adds incident management with escalation policies, AI-written incident briefings and post-mortems, and branded public status pages with email subscribers. Database monitoring runs real queries against PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis, so you catch a primary that accepts connections but cannot serve them.
Not in New Relic
- Branded public status pages
- Status pages driven by the same checks
- Flat, predictable monthly bill
Datadog
Best for: The like-for-like observability heavyweight
The closest full-platform rival: APM, infrastructure, logs, synthetics and RUM with the deepest integration catalog and strong Kubernetes and cloud-infra coverage. If you want maximum breadth and depth in one pane, this is the benchmark.
Watch out: Per-host, per-GB-ingested and per-test pricing can scale as unpredictably as New Relic's, sometimes more so. Moving between the two is often a sideways step on cost, not a saving.
Per host + GB ingested + test
Grafana Cloud
Best for: Metrics, logs and traces on an open-source foundation
Managed Prometheus, Loki and Tempo with a genuinely useful free tier. If your team already thinks in PromQL and is comfortable building its own dashboards and alert rules, this is a cost-effective way to get observability depth without running the storage layer.
Watch out: You assemble it. Dashboards, alert routing and sensible defaults are largely your job rather than out of the box, which is real engineering time that never shows up on the invoice.
Free tier, then usage-based
SigNoz
Best for: An open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability stack
APM, logs and traces in one tool built on OpenTelemetry, available self-hosted or as a managed cloud. Attractive if you want to own your telemetry pipeline and avoid per-host or per-user licensing.
Watch out: A younger product with a smaller ecosystem and fewer turnkey integrations, and the self-hosted route means you run and scale the storage yourself.
Open source, or usage-based cloud
Better Stack
Best for: Uptime, on-call and status pages in one modern product
The closest tool to what NoDisrupt does: uptime monitoring, incident management with on-call scheduling, status pages and log management in a clean interface. A strong choice when observability depth is not the point and you want the monitoring-and-response job done well.
Watch out: Per-monitor pricing means cost climbs with the number of things you watch, and database monitoring is thinner than a dedicated database check.
Free tier, then per-monitor
Prometheus + Grafana, self-hosted
Best for: Platform teams who want everything under their own control
The do-it-yourself route: no licence cost, no data limits, and complete freedom over how you instrument and alert. For a team with platform engineers and the appetite to own it, a legitimately excellent answer.
Watch out: Free to licence is not free to run. You own scaling, storage, upgrades, high availability and the on-call for your own monitoring stack. The tool that tells you production is down must not be the thing that is down.
Open source, plus your infrastructure and time
Side by side, on the things that decide it
✓ full support · — not available · anything else is the detail
| Capability | NoDisrupt | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| What you can monitor | ||
| Website / HTTP uptime | ✓Yes | Synthetics |
| API checks with assertions | ✓Yes | Synthetics |
| Database monitoring | Postgres, MySQL, Redis | On-host integrations |
| Ping & port | ✓Yes | Synthetic ping |
| Server / host metrics | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Custom application metrics | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| APM & distributed tracingNew Relic's core strength. NoDisrupt does not do tracing. | —No | ✓Yes |
| Log management | —No | ✓Yes |
| Real-user & browser monitoring | —No | ✓Yes |
| When something breaks | ||
| Incident management | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Escalation & on-call | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| AI incident summaries | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Keeping customers informed | ||
| Branded public status pagesNew Relic integrates Statuspage.io rather than publishing its own customer status pages; NoDisrupt includes them on every plan. | ✓Yes | —No |
| Status pages driven by the same checks | ✓Yes | —No |
| Cost & fit | ||
| Flat, predictable monthly billBilled on data ingested (100 GB free, then per GB) plus per-user or compute units, which moves with your traffic and headcount. | ✓Yes | —No |
| No per-GB ingest meter | ✓Yes | —No |
Where New Relic is the better pick
We'd rather you choose the right tool than the wrong one. New Relic wins if:
- Full APM and distributed tracing across your services. NoDisrupt does neither.
- Log management, and a genuinely large free data allowance of 100 GB of ingest a month that suits small teams with a lot of telemetry.
- Real-user and browser monitoring, plus scripted synthetics for multi-step journeys.
- A single platform for metrics, events, logs and traces, with one of the broadest integration catalogs in the market.
- If you need observability depth across a fleet, New Relic is far more capable than NoDisrupt, and priced for it.
Check-for-check
What happens to the checks you already run
Every New Relic check type you are likely to have, and its equivalent here. The last two rows have no equivalent, which is the honest answer rather than a reason not to list them.
4 of 6 New Relic check types have a direct equivalent.
Switching from New Relic
- 01
Recreate your monitors
Move your uptime, API, database and host checks into NoDisrupt: the monitoring most teams rely on day to day, without a data-ingest meter.
- 02
Move incident response over
Set up escalation policies so alerts turn into a coordinated response by email, SMS or phone.
- 03
Turn on status pages
Publish branded, customer-facing status pages backed by the same checks, included on every plan, instead of wiring up Statuspage.io separately.
- 04
Keep New Relic only where it earns it
If you genuinely need APM, logs or tracing, keep New Relic for that and run NoDisrupt for monitoring, incidents and status: most teams cut their bill sharply this way.
Questions
Make the switch in an afternoon
10 monitors free, no card. Recreate your New Relic checks and keep your customers informed in the same sitting. Branded public status pages starts on the paid tiers.
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