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New Relic vs SigNoz
New Relic also offers full-stack monitoring but with different pricing; SigNoz emphasizes open-source roots and OpenTelemetry compliance.
New RelicObservability platform for apps and infrastructure
SigNozOpen-source observability: traces, metrics and logs on OpenTelemetryWhich to pick
Pick New Relic if you want…
- AI-aware full-stack observability
- OpenTelemetry-native monitoring
- Integrations with Prometheus, StatsD or eBPF (on New Relic's list, not SigNoz's)
Pick SigNoz if you want…
- Unified OpenTelemetry observability
- Open-source code (SigNoz/signoz on GitHub)
- Integrations with Kubernetes (on SigNoz'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.
- SigNoz:SigNoz is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform offering APM, logs, traces, metrics, alerts and AI-assisted debugging.
- Best for
- New Relic:AI-aware full-stack observability
- SigNoz:Unified OpenTelemetry observability
- Who it’s for
- New Relic:Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product teams needing full-stack monitoring.
- SigNoz:DevOps, SRE and engineering teams needing unified observability.
- Pricing
- New Relic:Freemium
- SigNoz:Freemium
- Plans
- New Relic:Free $0
- SigNoz:Teams $49/month per month · Community (Self-Hosted) Free
- Open source
- New Relic:—
- SigNoz:Yes, 32,258 GitHub stars
- Works with
- New Relic:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF, 800+ pre-built integrations
- SigNoz:OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes
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.
SigNoz features
- APM & Tracing. Collect and analyze traces with up to a million spans, showing latency, errors and service dependencies.
- Log Management. Columnar log storage with built-in trace correlation and fast query via PromQL or ClickHouse SQL.
- Metrics & Alerts. Metrics ingestion with usage-based pricing, plus threshold, anomaly and Apdex alerts.
- AI Assistant (Noz). Chat-based AI teammate that can query telemetry, investigate incidents and build dashboards.
- LLM Observability. Native telemetry for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini and other LLM services.
- Infrastructure Monitoring. Kubernetes, host and cloud metrics displayed alongside application signals.
- Dashboards & Templates. Reusable dashboard templates for services, infra, databases and LLM usage.
- Compliance & Security. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, data residency in US/EU/India and SSO/SAML support for enterprise.
New Relic vs SigNoz FAQ
Is New Relic or SigNoz free?+
New Relic has a free plan and paid plans. SigNoz has a free plan (Community (Self-Hosted)); paid plans start at $49/month (Teams).
Is New Relic or SigNoz open source?+
SigNoz is open source (SigNoz/signoz on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for New Relic.
Do New Relic and SigNoz integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list OpenTelemetry. New Relic also lists Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF and 800+ pre-built integrations; SigNoz also lists Kubernetes.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.