New Relic vs Sentry vs Stackify

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New Relic vs Sentry vs Stackify: What are the differences?

Introduction:

When it comes to application performance monitoring and error tracking, New Relic, Sentry, and Stackify are widely used tools. Each tool has its unique features and benefits that cater to specific needs of developers and organizations.

  1. Deployment and Integration: New Relic provides seamless deployment and integration processes, making it easy for users to set up monitoring for various applications and platforms. On the other hand, Sentry and Stackify also offer robust integration options but may require more manual configuration compared to New Relic.

  2. Monitoring Capabilities: New Relic offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities for both application performance and infrastructure, providing detailed insights into code-level performance issues. In contrast, Sentry and Stackify primarily focus on error tracking and log management, offering in-depth visibility into application errors and exceptions.

  3. Customization and Alerting: New Relic allows users to customize dashboards, set up custom alerts, and create tailored reports based on specific metrics and parameters. Sentry and Stackify also offer customization options but may have limitations compared to the flexibility provided by New Relic.

  4. Scalability and Pricing: New Relic is known for its scalability and can handle monitoring for large-scale enterprise applications with ease. While Sentry and Stackify are also scalable, the pricing models for these tools may vary and could be more cost-effective for smaller organizations or projects.

  5. Community Support and Documentation: New Relic has a large community of users and extensive documentation resources, making it easier for users to troubleshoot issues and find solutions. Sentry and Stackify also have active user communities, but the level of support and documentation may not be as comprehensive as that of New Relic.

  6. User Interface and User Experience: New Relic offers a user-friendly interface with intuitive navigation and visualization features, making it easy for users to navigate and analyze monitoring data. Sentry and Stackify also provide user-friendly interfaces but may have a steeper learning curve for users unfamiliar with the tools.

In Summary, New Relic stands out for its deployment ease, monitoring capabilities, and customization options, while Sentry and Stackify offer strong error tracking and log management features with varying levels of scalability and community support.

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SysdigSysdig

We are looking for a centralised monitoring solution for our application deployed on Amazon EKS. We would like to monitor using metrics from Kubernetes, AWS services (NeptuneDB, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, etc) and application microservice's custom metrics.

We are expected to use around 80 microservices (not replicas). I think a total of 200-250 microservices will be there in the system with 10-12 slave nodes.

We tried Prometheus but it looks like maintenance is a big issue. We need to manage scaling, maintaining the storage, and dealing with multiple exporters and Grafana. I felt this itself needs few dedicated resources (at least 2-3 people) to manage. Not sure if I am thinking in the correct direction. Please confirm.

You mentioned Datadog and Sysdig charges per host. Does it charge per slave node?

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Can't say anything to Sysdig. I clearly prefer Datadog as

  • they provide plenty of easy to "switch-on" plugins for various technologies (incl. most of AWS)
  • easy to code (python) agent plugins / api for own metrics
  • brillant dashboarding / alarms with many customization options
  • pricing is OK, there are cheaper options for specific use cases but if you want superior dashboarding / alarms I haven't seen a good competitor (despite your own Prometheus / Grafana / Kibana dog food)

IMHO NewRelic is "promising since years" ;) good ideas but bad integration between their products. Their Dashboard query language is really nice but lacks critical functions like multiple data sets or advanced calculations. Needless to say you get all of that with Datadog.

Need help setting up a monitoring / logging / alarm infrastructure? Send me a message!

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Maik Schröder
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Hi Medeti,

you are right. Building based on your stack something with open source is heavy lifting. A lot of people I know start with such a set-up, but quickly run into frustration as they need to dedicated their best people to build a monitoring which is doing the job in a professional way.

As you are microservice focussed and are looking for 'low implementation and maintenance effort', you might want to have a look at INSTANA, which was built with modern tool stacks in mind. https://www.instana.com/apm-for-microservices/

We have a public sand-box available if you just want to have a look at the product once and of course also a free-trial: https://www.instana.com/getting-started-with-apm/

Let me know if you need anything on top.

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Attila Fulop
Management Advisor at artkonekt · | 2 upvotes · 337.8K views

I have hands on production experience both with New Relic and Datadog. I personally prefer Datadog over NewRelic because of the UI, the Documentation and the overall user/developer experience.

NewRelic however, can do basically the same things as Datadog can, and some of the features like alerting have been present in NewRelic for longer than in Datadog. The cool thing about NewRelic is their last-summer-updated pricing: you no longer pay per host but after data you send towards New Relic. This can be a huge cost saver depending on your particular setup

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing

I'd go for Datadog, but given you have lots of containers I would also make a cost calculation. If the price difference is significant and there's a budget constraint NewRelic might be the better choice.

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Decisions about New Relic, Sentry, and Stackify

I essentially inherited a Shopify theme that was originally created by an agency. After discovering a number of errors being thrown in the Dev Console just by scrolling through the website, I needed more visibility over any errors happening in the field. Having used both Sentry and TrackJS, I always got lost in the TrackJS interface, so I felt more comfortable introducing Sentry. The Sentry free tier is also very generous, although it turns out the theme threw over 15k errors in less than a week.

I highly recommend setting up error tracking from day one. Theoretically, you should never need to upgrade from the free tier if you're keeping on top of the errors...

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Attila Fulop

I haven't heard much about Datadog until about a year ago. Ironically, the NewRelic sales person who I had a series of trainings with was trash talking about Datadog a lot. That drew my attention to Datadog and I gave it a try at another client project where we needed log handling, dashboards and alerting.

In 2019, Datadog was already offering log management and from that perspective, it was ahead of NewRelic. Other than that, from my perspective, the two tools are offering a very-very similar set of tools. Therefore I wouldn't say there's a significant difference between the two, the decision is likely a matter of taste. The pricing is also very similar.

The reasons why we chose Datadog over NewRelic were:

  • The presence of log handling feature (since then, logging is GA at NewRelic as well since falls 2019).
  • The setup was easier even though I already had experience with NewRelic, including participation in NewRelic trainings.
  • The UI of Datadog is more compact and my experience is smoother.
  • The NewRelic UI is very fragmented and New Relic One is just increasing this experience for me.
  • The log feature of Datadog is very well designed, I find very useful the tagging logs with services. The log filtering is also very awesome.

Bottom line is that both tools are great and it makes sense to discover both and making the decision based on your use case. In our case, Datadog was the clear winner due to its UI, ease of setup and the awesome logging and alerting features.

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Ram Kumar
CTO, Architect at Sarvasv.in · | 1 upvote · 32.6K views

Sentry is so far the best in exception monitoring. It also has a decent rate limit and user limits for startups.

New relic is mostly performance monitoring but you have thousands of ways to optimise performance. With cloud based, serverless and auto-scaling solutions, performance within a limited RAM or disk space is not even a question, forget concern.

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Benoit Larroque
Principal Engineer at Sqreen · | 4 upvotes · 435.7K views

I chose Datadog APM because the much better APM insights it provides (flamegraph, percentiles by default).

The drawbacks of this decision are we had to move our production monitoring to TimescaleDB + Telegraf instead of NR Insight

NewRelic is definitely easier when starting out. Agent is only a lib and doesn't require a daemon

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    What is Sentry?

    Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.

    What is Stackify?

    Stackify offers the only developers-friendly innovative cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error and log. Allowing them to easily monitor, detect and resolve application issues faster

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