Open Source Alternatives

Alternatives to New Relic

Application performance monitoring and observability.

2 drop-in replacements9 building blocks

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Updated May 2026

What you gain

✓No per-GB ingestion pricing on logs and traces
✓No per-seat Full Platform User licensing ($549/user/mo)
✓Full control over telemetry data retention and querying
✓Self-hosted deployment with OpenTelemetry-native backends

What you give up

△No NRQL for querying all telemetry types in one language
△No built-in Errors Inbox with automatic error grouping across services
△No managed Distributed Tracing with automatic service maps
△No Vulnerability Management integrated with APM data

Switching Cost

New Relic's data is exportable via NRQL and their APIs, so you won't lose historical data if you plan ahead. The pain is in the instrumentation. Every custom dashboard, every alert policy, every synthetic monitor needs rebuilding. Teams with heavy custom instrumentation (custom attributes, distributed tracing configs) should budget 2-3 weeks. Teams using mostly out-of-the-box APM can switch to Grafana or SigNoz in a few days.

Quick Compare

	SigNoz	openobserve
Overlap	70%	55%
Migration	moderate	significant
License	MIT + Enterprise	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Best for	Teams with DevOps	Small teams

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Drop-in Replacements

Ranked by feature coverage

SigNoz

8170% coverage

OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, traces, and metrics

SigNoz gives you performance traces, error rates, and system metrics in one dashboard. It's built on OpenTelemetry (the open standard for collecting observability data), which means you're not locked into a proprietary SDK.

26.8k ★+91/wkTypeScriptMIT + Enterprise

openobserve

7355% coverage

OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring. A cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

OpenObserve handles logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring in one tool. It pitches itself as a Datadog and Splunk alternative, but the real story is the storage architecture.

18.8k ★TypeScriptGNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Building Blocks

New Relic is a platform. It bundles multiple capabilities into one subscription. These tools each cover one piece. Teams often assemble 2–3 of them instead of paying for the full suite.