[LRUG] [Help] Alternatives to NewRelic

[Ben Lovell]

On 28 May 2015 at 15:21, Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don’t have any answers for you but very keen to see what others are
> going as we’re in a similar position. We’re on a non longer existent new
> relic plan which doesn’t quite have the features we need but the
> $199/host/month pricing on new relic is super high (and it seems like it’s
> getting more rather than less expensive over time). The per host price
> aspect is also pulling us in the opposite direction that we want to go in.
>
>
Speak to somebody at newrelic. I've always found them very (very) amenable
to negotiation where price is concerned.


>
> Fred
>
>
> On 28 May 2015 at 14:03:06, Seb Jacobs (seb.jacobs at futurelearn.com) wrote:
>
>  Hello all,
>
> At FutureLearn we have been using NewRelic since before we launched back
> in October 2013,
> however it's getting to the point where we can no longer justify paying
> for NewRelic.
>
> * What do we currently use NewRelic for? *
>
> + Identifying slow controller actions/SQL queries
> + Monitoring slow background jobs
> + Identifying deployments which may have effected specific page generation
> times.
> + Monitoring page generation times
> + Monitoring page load times
> + Monitoring general throughput and servers (used for Capacity planning)
>
> I am currently in the process of evaluating alternative services to
> NewRelic, and although in theory a combination of services such as
> AppSignal, Skylight.io and ServerDensity might be able to meet the more
> general use cases I have been unable to find any which feel quite right.
>
> I was wondering if any fellow LRUGers have come across any NewRelic-like
> services which fit these particular needs, and work out cheaper overall.
>
> It might be worth noting that we are currently hesitant to go down the
> path of reducing the number of instances running NewRelic as this will make
> our infrastructure considerably more complicated to manage.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> --
>
>     Seb Jacobs
> Web Developer
> FutureLearn
> E: seb.jacobs at futurelearn.com <james.coglan at futurelearn.com>
>
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