31 engineers on Hacker News describe using New Relic first-hand: 9 endorse it, 4 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We migrated from newrelic to datadog (for cost reasons LMAO) a while back and I miss NRQL every single day”
endorse · production · blyry · 2025-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All the free, open-source ones have absolutely nothing on Datadog and New Relic (which is what we use).”
endorse · production · icelancer · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to NewRelic and while its dashboards are not quite as fancy or powerful as Kibana, it's as close to zero-configuration as you can hope.”
endorse · production · piaste · 2021-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just hook sentry or newrelic and they'll log exception stack traces that I can use”
endorse · production · neurostimulant · 2021-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We ditched them a day before our contract ended. Would never use them again.”
regret · production · simplyinfinity · 2020-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched over from one to another because NewRelic doesn't really support Rust”
regret · production · cfabianski · 2020-06-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm sure it's a good product, we use New Relic a lot!”
endorse · production · joaodlf · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The development mode of New Relic ... is another good tool to find out about response times of your controller actions... We switched to this”
endorse · production · yoran · 2016-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“New Relic uses a 5-minute rolling average for error rates, and alerts when that average goes above some threshold.”
regret · production · jordanthoms · 2015-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the past 4-years (ish), I've been using NewRelic in 100% of my personal and professional projects, and couldn't be happier.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · rdegges · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We also have been using New Relic, which I don't think we would have installed without Heroku. This tool is amazing”
endorse · production · noahc · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love NewRelic, it just costs too much per server.”
mixed · production · jreposa · 2011-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use NewRelic right now, and all that the "code performance" part of it shows is index.php... Obviously, not very helpful.”
regret · production · manuelflara · 2011-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“New Relic's RPM has became an important asset in all of my applications, plus we heavily use it for a Rails app”
endorse · production · rprime · 2011-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run NewRelic configured to monitor Apache, which stops us from having to roll our own”
neutral · production · rawleyfowler · 2023-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've tried Honeycomb, NewRelic, Lightstep.”
neutral · personal · CSDude · 2023-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I spend a lot of time flipping between New Relic and Splunk, and my company spends a ton on both.”
neutral · production · reilly3000 · 2022-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my workplace we have two options for sending Slack alerts - one from our NewRelic cloud account alerts”
neutral · production · piaste · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use tools like Splunk and New Relic for monitoring”
neutral · production · giaour · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally debug with the stdlib pprof package ... print statements, general testing/experimentation and newrelic.”
neutral · production · courtf · 2016-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use them integrated with New Relic, so I'll have to look at what the permissions are there.”
neutral · production · scoj · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use NewRelic for our Rails application on Heroku”
neutral · production · fmotlik · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even with tools like NewRelic”
neutral · production · numlocked · 2014-08-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We mainly started with services we use, we'll be adding more rapidly”
neutral · production · triaged · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our New Relic stats looked insanely fast, but Twilio logs told us that we were taking over 15 seconds”
neutral · production · michaelrkn · 2013-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Google Analytics, KissMetrics, New Relic, Pardot, Tracelytics.”
neutral · production · sedwards · 2012-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use New Relic to find slow queries in production.”
neutral · production · ekidd · 2011-09-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used NewRelic quite a bit in the past, but only in production.”
neutral · production · pakeha · 2011-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We actually just talked about the monitoring stack we use at Scout. ... Scout,Monit,Hoptoad,New Relic, and Pingdom”
neutral · production · itsderek23 · 2010-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?