What I don't like about New Relic is their pricing model. I don't like to be paying for each appserver connected.
We are constantly adding and removing servers based on our traffic, and with something like New Relic we need to renegotiate or change contract if we suddenly needs a lot of servers. Pay by metric, pay by request etc. is fairer in my eyes. If I have 10 servers connnected and send 1 request-per-minute I still pay for having 10 servers connected.
If they process 1 request from me it shouldn't matter whether or not I have 1 or 10 servers connected, I should only pay for what they process.
The reason I am not using NewRelic personally is that my infrastructure is 5 linodes, which I pay $20 for each server. And with NewRelic Pro I have to pay $149 per host. I have seen people doing tricks like only enabling NewRelic for certain hosts just to get around their pricing model.
I really like New Relic, and its very pleasant to use their service, they give good insight about your application, I just wish I could afford their service.
We are constantly adding and removing servers based on our traffic, and with something like New Relic we need to renegotiate or change contract if we suddenly needs a lot of servers. Pay by metric, pay by request etc. is fairer in my eyes. If I have 10 servers connnected and send 1 request-per-minute I still pay for having 10 servers connected.
If they process 1 request from me it shouldn't matter whether or not I have 1 or 10 servers connected, I should only pay for what they process.
The reason I am not using NewRelic personally is that my infrastructure is 5 linodes, which I pay $20 for each server. And with NewRelic Pro I have to pay $149 per host. I have seen people doing tricks like only enabling NewRelic for certain hosts just to get around their pricing model.
I really like New Relic, and its very pleasant to use their service, they give good insight about your application, I just wish I could afford their service.