New Relic vs. Datadog vs. SignalFx
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What is New Relic?New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.
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What is Datadog?Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
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What is SignalFx?We provide operational intelligence for today’s elastic architectures through monitoring specifically designed for microservices and containers with:
-powerful and proactive alerting
-metrics aggregation
-visualization into time series data
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3018 Companies Using New Relic
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407 Companies Using Datadog
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3 Companies Using SignalFx
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Reviews of New Relic, Datadog, and SignalFx
Great App Through the Eyes of a Sysadmin Turned CTO
July 23, 2014 14:27
I've been a systems administrator most of my career. Everywhere I went, I'd have to rebuild the same monitoring + graphing system. And then make sure that every machine wrote to that system and every application handed up the proper metrics through whatever mechanism seemed good at the time.
Then, as CTO of SimpleReach, single-handedly managing over 200 servers in addition to everything else, I found Datadog. We were already using statsd to instrument our applications, now it was just a matter of getting that data to Datadog. We use Chef, so I installed the Datadog agent on every machine in about 10 minutes and we were up and running.
The best part was that we had a deploy problem the next day with one of our main applications and troubleshooting took minutes instead of hours (and Datadog immediately paid for itself). Now no new features go out without instrumentation and no machine gets created without being monitored.
Datadog just scales with us. Great service and I highly recommend it to anyone not looking to reinvent the wheel with monitoring and instrumentation.
Great Product, Good Value
June 19, 2014 09:22
Background
We're a real-time financial services messaging company, so being able to monitor our servers and applications in real-time is important to us. We also like a good deal, so $15/server seemed a bargain.
What were we looking for?
We wanted to monitor our MS infrastructure (servers, SQL) and apps (C#) to understand performance issues and be able to rectify. We also want to be able to do long-term trending. And we wanted to go from nothing to live in a short time.
Experience
Installing the Datadog agent on the servers was a breeze and enabling the integrations for SQL and Windows trivial.
Using the StatsD based API was also very easy - no worrying about JSON or UDP calls. The ability to add tags to all metrics is also a key benefit. We run multiple (100+) instances of a single application and being able to distinguish events from each one via tagging, or to see aggregates, is extremely useful.
In all it took 2 days R&D to instrument our key applications sufficiently for production deployment. Deploying the agent to our production servers took 30 mins, giving our Ops team complete visibility for the 1st time.
What have we learned
Since we've been live Datadog has given us numerous insights into the way our system behaves, from uneven server loadings and sporadic memory usage to performance tuning a key application that resulted in a 50% increase in throughput. Knowing what's taking the time has been a boon.
Continuous evolution
The other nice surprise has been the evolving nature of Datadog. It seems like every couple of weeks there's a new feature on the site.
Other points
- I like the transparent pricing. Services that won't show me the price without having to talk to a sales person are really annoying.
- Support has been good. We've contacted them several times with questions and always had a quick response (time zone considered...we're in London) and a helpful answer.
So What's bad?
Probably the weakest aspect at the moment is the long term trending of data. Whilst you can wind the time bar back to see what happened last week you can't ask questions like "show me the peak period each day for the last x months". The "get data" API is also fairly weak. Neither are concerns at the moment, and I'm sure they're on the to-do list.
Essential tool
July 11, 2014 08:54
Datadog makes running a service with 800,000 unique users a month possible as a single developer/maintainer. I bought a separate monitor just to keep my datadog dashboards always visible and rely on triggers to keep watch over 20+ servers.
Highly recommended.
developer friendly easy-to-scale monitoring service
July 22, 2014 05:40
We use datadog to monitor our servers and some application metrics. Easy to get started and scale to many servers. Datadog support engineers are always quick to respond to bugs and other challenges.
How developers use New Relic vs Datadog vs SignalFx
MaxCDN uses New Relic
How do you know what parts of the workflow need improvement? Measure it. With New Relic in place, we have graphs of our API performance and can directly see if a server or zone is causing trouble, and the impact of our changes. There’s no comparison between a real-time performance graph and “Strange, the site seems slow, I should tail the logs”.
Pathwright uses New Relic
Server and application performance monitoring, alerting, and page/background task tuning.
nrise uses New Relic
어플리케이션 서버 및 각종 서버들을 모니터링하는데 이만한 툴이 없습니다. 어플리케이션 서버의 퍼포먼스 드릴다운 모니터링이나 각 서버들의 활성화 상태를 모니터링 하는 용도로 사용합니다.
StackShare uses New Relic
Free Heroku add-on. Not particularly useful for us. Rails profilers tend to do a better job at the app level. And I can never really figure out what’s going on with Heroku by looking at New Relic. I don’t know if we’re just not using New Relic correctly or if it really does just suck for our use case. But I guess some insight is better than none.
Kalibrr uses New Relic
We monitor and troubleshoot our app's performance using New Relic, which gives us a great view into each type of request that hits our servers. It also gives us a nice weekly summary of error rates and response times so that we know how well we've done in the past week.
Foundbite uses New Relic
We use NewRelic for monitoring our APIs, it's free with Windows Azure which is super!
stevepaulo uses New Relic
I'm trying to wring more instrumentation out of New Relic as it pertains to Rack, but for the time being, New Relic is monitoring/alerting uptime and some basic performance metrics.
jegesh uses New Relic
We hooked New Relic up to monitor the health or our servers and containers, as well as track the actual app performance.
RocketFuel uses New Relic
New Relic is used both to monitor availability and to find potential candidates for optimization.
jflynn33 uses New Relic
Just like we care about errors, we care about metrics - especially around performance. You'd be crazy not to use it - and not surprisingly, it's a one-click add-on in Heroku.
DigitalPermits uses Datadog
We just started looking into Datadog, but from what we see, it's like New Relic meets Loggly. It's really easy to plugin different services (like the one on this list) and get detailed analysis of what is happening on your servers and services. It makes tracking down sparse and difficult to understand problems possible.
Runbook uses Datadog
Monitors things like server cpu/memory/disk usage and sends Runbook a webhook when things get out of wack.
Sail Tactics uses Datadog
Monitoring day-to-day operations of multiple high-performance computing assets distributed across several networks. Monitoring vendor provided data and setting up alerts when things do not show up on time.
AngeloR uses Datadog
Datadog was used as an agent for monitoring and as for the statsd daemon included. This way we are able to have automated system stats and include whatever other metrics we want to track.
Dynamictivity uses Datadog
Datadog is used because it has a great free tier and it provides us with great insights and integrations into our infrastructure and tools.
ONLICAR uses Datadog
We use Datadog to power the TVs in our office that show real-time metrics of uptime, performance and errors.
SignalFx uses SignalFx
We use SignalFx to monitor all of SignalFx.. that include the entire stack from core services like Cassandra and AWS EC2 up through custom application metrics from SignalFx itself.
