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New Relic vs Uptime Kuma
New Relic includes application performance monitoring in addition to uptime checks.
New RelicObservability platform for apps and infrastructure
Uptime KumaSelf-hosted uptime monitoring toolWhich to pick
Pick New Relic if you want…
- AI-aware full-stack observability
- APM and uptime combined
Pick Uptime Kuma if you want…
- Self-hosted uptime monitoring
- A free, open-source tool
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.
- Uptime Kuma:Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted tool for monitoring website and service uptime.
- Best for
- New Relic:AI-aware full-stack observability
- Uptime Kuma:Self-hosted uptime monitoring
- Who it’s for
- New Relic:Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product teams needing full-stack monitoring.
- Uptime Kuma:Developers and ops teams who want to run their own uptime monitoring.
- Pricing
- New Relic:Freemium
- Uptime Kuma:Free
- Plans
- New Relic:Free $0
- Uptime Kuma:—
- Open source
- New Relic:—
- Uptime Kuma:Yes, 92,195 GitHub stars
- Works with
- New Relic:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF, 800+ pre-built integrations
- Uptime Kuma:—
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.
Uptime Kuma features
- Self-hosted. Runs on your own infrastructure without relying on third-party services.
- Docker deployment. Start with a single Docker command that sets up the container and data volume.
- Live demo. Provides an online demo to explore the interface before installing.
- Documentation. Includes docs for setup and usage linked from the main page.
New Relic vs Uptime Kuma FAQ
Is New Relic or Uptime Kuma free?+
New Relic has a free plan and paid plans. Uptime Kuma is free.
Is New Relic or Uptime Kuma open source?+
Uptime Kuma is open source (louislam/uptime-kuma on GitHub, MIT license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for New Relic.
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