New Relic alternatives

At a glance

We list 7 other monitoring tools as alternatives to New Relic: Better Stack, Checkly, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Rollbar and Sentry.
Better Stack, Checkly, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Rollbar and Sentry have a free plan.
Better Stack, Datadog, Grafana Cloud and Honeycomb work with Kubernetes, as New Relic does.
Checkly, Grafana Cloud and Honeycomb work with Prometheus, as New Relic does.

From each tool's own website and from published reviews. Each tool's page says when its facts were checked.

7 alternatives

Listed alphabetically. A tool is ranked by its reviews once it has 3.

Better Stack
AI SRE observability stack with logs, tracing, error tracking, incidents and status pages
No reviews yet
Choose it over New Relic for: iOS or Android; SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Responder, $34 per responder per month (as of October 20, 2026)
Platforms
iOS, Android
Integrations shared with New Relic
Kubernetes
Main features
Uptime monitoring, Log management, OpenTelemetry tracing
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO
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Checkly
The active reliability layer for developers and agents
No reviews yet
Choose it over New Relic for: Web or CLI; SOC 2 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Starter, $24 per month, billed annually (as of October 20, 2026)
Platforms
Web, CLI, API
Integrations shared with New Relic
Prometheus
Main features
Uptime monitoring, Synthetic monitoring, Heartbeat monitoring
Security and compliance
SOC 2, GDPR, SSO
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Datadog
AI-powered observability and security for any stack, any app, at any scale
No reviews yet
Choose it over New Relic for: iOS or Android.
Free trial
Yes
Platforms
iOS, Android
Integrations shared with New Relic
Azure, Kubernetes
Main features
Infrastructure monitoring, APM, Log management
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Grafana Cloud
Monitor metrics, logs, traces and profiles on a fully managed observability platform
No reviews yet
Choose it over New Relic for: SOC 2 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Pro, $19 per month, plus usage (as of October 19, 2026)
Integrations shared with New Relic
Azure, Kubernetes, Prometheus
Main features
Metrics, logs and traces, Grafana Assistant, Adaptive Telemetry
Security and compliance
SOC 2, GDPR
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Honeycomb
Observability platform for AI-era software with fast queries and unified telemetry
No reviews yet
No checked fact sets it apart from New Relic yet.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Pro, $150 per month for 50M events, scaling to 750M (as of October 19, 2026)
Free trial
Yes
Platforms
API
Integrations shared with New Relic
Kubernetes, Prometheus
Main features
Distributed tracing, BubbleUp, SLOs
Security and compliance
SSO
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Rollbar
Error tracking that ends in a fix
No reviews yet
Choose it over New Relic for: SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Essentials, $9 per month at 10,000 occurrences, scaling with volume (as of October 20, 2026)
Free trial
14 days
Platforms
API
Integrations shared with New Relic
None in common
Main features
Error monitoring, Session replay, Deploy tracking
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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Sentry
Application monitoring for developers to see errors clearer and solve issues faster
No reviews yet
Choose it over New Relic for: Web or CLI; SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Team, $26 per month, billed annually (as of October 19, 2026)
Platforms
Web, CLI
Integrations shared with New Relic
None in common
Main features
Error monitoring, Tracing, Session replay
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SSO
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At a glance

We list 7 other monitoring tools as alternatives to New Relic: Better Stack, Checkly, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Rollbar and Sentry.

Better Stack, Checkly, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Rollbar and Sentry have a free plan.

Better Stack, Datadog, Grafana Cloud and Honeycomb work with Kubernetes, as New Relic does.

Checkly, Grafana Cloud and Honeycomb work with Prometheus, as New Relic does.

From each tool's own website and from published reviews. Each tool's page says when its facts were checked.