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Better Stack vs New Relic
Short answer: Pick Better Stack if you want all-in-one observability with AI assistance; pick New Relic if you want AI-aware full-stack observability. Better Stack has a free plan, paid from $25/month; New Relic has a free plan.
Better StackUptime monitoring, incidents, logs and status pages
New RelicObservability platform for apps and infrastructureWhich to pick
Pick Better Stack if you want…
- All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- Uptime and incident management
- Integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams or Linear (on Better Stack's list, not New Relic's)
Pick New Relic if you want…
- AI-aware full-stack observability
- Integrations with StatsD, eBPF or 800+ pre-built integrations (on New Relic's list, not Better Stack's)
Better Stack provides uptime and status page monitoring, while New Relic delivers end-to-end observability including logs, traces, AI monitoring, and cost intelligence.
Side by side
- What it is
- Better Stack:Better Stack provides unified uptime monitoring, incident management, logs, metrics, traces and AI-native error tracking.
- New Relic:New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates telemetry across apps, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Best for
- Better Stack:All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- New Relic:AI-aware full-stack observability
- Who it’s for
- Better Stack:DevOps, SREs and engineering teams needing full-stack observability.
- New Relic:Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product teams needing full-stack monitoring.
- Pricing
- Better Stack:Freemium
- New Relic:Freemium
- Starting price
- Better Stack:$25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano)
- New Relic:—
- Free plan or trial
- Better Stack:Free plan (Free (personal projects)) · Free trial
- New Relic:Free plan (Free)
- Plans
- Better Stack:Free (personal projects) $0 · Responder $34 per month · AI SRE tokens $5 per million tokens · Slack & Teams incident $9 per responder license per m per month · Telemetry bundles – Nano $25 per month billed yearly
- New Relic:Free $0
- Works with
- Better Stack:Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- New Relic:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF, 800+ pre-built integrations
Better Stack features
- AI-native SRE. Claude-style AI analyzes logs, metrics, traces and suggests tickets, merges incidents and writes post-mortems.
- eBPF service map. Zero-code instrumentation creates a live service map for tracing and SLO tracking.
- Slack/Teams incident workflow. Resolve incidents directly in Slack or Microsoft Teams with templated automations.
- Unified telemetry bundles. Logs, traces and metrics are ingested together with OpenTelemetry support and SQL/PromQL query builder.
- Real-user monitoring. Session replay, auto-captured events and web-vitals with correlation to backend telemetry.
New Relic features
- AI-driven root cause analysis. Automatically identifies the cause of incidents across services and AI agents.
- Unified data layer. Collects logs, metrics, traces, and digital experience data in one place.
- Infrastructure & Kubernetes monitoring. Provides real-time health views for hosts, containers, and K8s clusters.
- Digital experience monitoring. Session replay, browser, mobile, and synthetic checks to track user friction.
- AI model monitoring. Tracks model performance, cost, and hallucinations with agentic tracing.
- Security & compliance. Vulnerability management, FedRAMP/HIPAA eligibility, and log obfuscation.
- OpenTelemetry support. Ingests data via OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF and other standards.
- Extensible integrations. 800+ pre-built integrations for cloud, SaaS, and on-prem services.
Better Stack vs New Relic FAQ
What is the difference between Better Stack and New Relic?+
New Relic focuses on APM and cloud monitoring; Better Stack combines monitoring, logs, traces and AI assistance in one platform. Better Stack provides uptime and status page monitoring, while New Relic delivers end-to-end observability including logs, traces, AI monitoring, and cost intelligence.
Should I use Better Stack or New Relic?+
Pick Better Stack if you want all-in-one observability with AI assistance, uptime and incident management or integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams or Linear (on Better Stack's list, not New Relic's). Pick New Relic if you want AI-aware full-stack observability or integrations with StatsD, eBPF or 800+ pre-built integrations (on New Relic's list, not Better Stack's).
Is Better Stack or New Relic free?+
Better Stack has a free plan (Free (personal projects)); paid plans start at $25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano). New Relic has a free plan and paid plans.
Do Better Stack and New Relic integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Better Stack also lists Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub and 6 more; New Relic also lists StatsD, eBPF and 800+ pre-built integrations.
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