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New Relic vs ProcessSpy
Enterprise-grade infrastructure monitoring, not focused on macOS processes
New RelicObservability platform for apps and infrastructure
ProcessSpyMonitor macOS Processes Like a ProWhich to pick
Pick New Relic if you want…
- AI-aware full-stack observability
- Full-stack app & infra monitoring
- Integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus or StatsD (on New Relic's list, not ProcessSpy's)
Pick ProcessSpy if you want…
- In-depth macOS process monitoring
- Integrations with macOS 14+, Homebrew or Setapp (on ProcessSpy's list, not New Relic's)
Side by side
- What it is
- New Relic:New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates telemetry across apps, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- ProcessSpy:ProcessSpy provides deep, real-time monitoring of macOS processes with detailed inspection and historical analysis.
- Best for
- New Relic:AI-aware full-stack observability
- ProcessSpy:In-depth macOS process monitoring
- Who it’s for
- New Relic:Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product teams needing full-stack monitoring.
- ProcessSpy:macOS developers, power users and system administrators who need granular process insight.
- Pricing
- New Relic:Freemium
- ProcessSpy:Freemium
- Plans
- New Relic:Free $0
- ProcessSpy:—
- Works with
- New Relic:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF, 800+ pre-built integrations
- ProcessSpy:macOS 14+, Homebrew, Setapp, Gumroad
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.
ProcessSpy features
- Per-process CPU & memory history. Logs and visualizes CPU, memory and thread usage over time with export to CSV.
- Point-and-click discovery. Find a process by clicking anywhere on the screen.
- JavaScript & regex filters. Create advanced search queries across multiple process properties.
- Advanced tree view. Groups child processes and XPC services, showing aggregate CPU, memory and thread totals.
- Menu bar dashboard. Shows real-time system health metrics in a compact drop-down.
- Finished process recall. Remembers terminated processes with command-line, env vars and timestamps.
New Relic vs ProcessSpy FAQ
Is New Relic or ProcessSpy free?+
New Relic has a free plan and paid plans. ProcessSpy has a free plan and paid plans.
Do New Relic and ProcessSpy integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: New Relic lists OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF and 1 more; ProcessSpy lists macOS 14+, Homebrew, Setapp and Gumroad.
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