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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.

Which 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.