Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools

New Relic vs Sentry

Compare New Relic and Sentry side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools category.

New Relic

by New Relic

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Pricing: Free plan with 100 GB ingest a month; Standard full platform users $10 first, $99 each additional; Pro $418.80 per full platform user monthly, $349 annual.

New Relic is an observability platform with APM and distributed tracing for engineering and DevOps teams, sold with a permanent free tier.

15 /16 features Full profile

Sentry

by Sentry

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Pricing: Free Developer plan for 1 user; Team $26/mo billed annually or $29 monthly; Business $80/mo billed annually or $89 monthly; Enterprise by quote; Seer add-on $40 per active contributor a month.

Sentry is application monitoring and error tracking software for developers that links errors, traces, logs, session replays and profiles, billed by usage.

12 /16 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools features side-by-side

Feature	New Relic 15/16 features	Sentry 12/16 features
Distributed tracing across services Follows one request end to end across services and shows every span with its timing and status.	Yes	Yes
Code-level transaction traces Drills a slow transaction down to the method, query or external call that took the time.	Yes	Yes
Automatic service dependency map Draws the services, databases and external calls a request touches, generated from traces with no manual setup.	Yes	No
Database query performance breakdown Ranks slow SQL and NoSQL queries by total time and ties each back to the transaction that ran it.	Yes	Yes
Continuous code profiling in production Samples CPU and memory by method or line on live hosts so hotspots show without a load test.	Yes	Yes
Deployment markers on performance charts Overlays each release on latency and error charts so a regression is tied to the deploy that caused it.	Yes	Yes
Apdex and latency percentile tracking Reports p50, p95 and p99 response time and an Apdex-style satisfaction score per endpoint.	Yes	Yes
Error rate tracking per endpoint Counts failed requests and exceptions by service and endpoint with the stack trace attached to each.	No	No
Alert thresholds on latency and error rate Fires an alert when an endpoint's response time or error rate crosses a threshold you set.	Yes	Yes
OpenTelemetry trace ingestion Accepts OTLP traces from the OpenTelemetry SDK or Collector without requiring the vendor's own agent.	Yes	Yes
Auto-instrumentation for major languages Installs an agent that instruments Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby or PHP without code changes.	Yes	No
Kubernetes and container-aware tracing Tags spans with pod, container and namespace and shows service health per cluster.	Yes	No
Serverless function tracing Traces AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions invocations as part of the request path.	Yes	Yes
Trace-to-log correlation Jumps from a span to the log lines emitted during it using an injected trace ID.	Yes	Yes
Trace sampling controls Lets you set head or tail sampling rates per service or endpoint to control ingest cost.	Yes	Yes
Free APM tier with usage caps Offers a no-cost plan limited by hosts, data volume or retention rather than a time-boxed trial.	Yes	Yes
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New Relic 15/16 features

Distributed tracing across services: Yes
Code-level transaction traces: Yes
Automatic service dependency map: Yes
Database query performance breakdown: Yes
Continuous code profiling in production: Yes
Deployment markers on performance charts: Yes
Apdex and latency percentile tracking: Yes
Error rate tracking per endpoint: No
Alert thresholds on latency and error rate: Yes
OpenTelemetry trace ingestion: Yes
Auto-instrumentation for major languages: Yes
Kubernetes and container-aware tracing: Yes
Serverless function tracing: Yes
Trace-to-log correlation: Yes
Trace sampling controls: Yes
Free APM tier with usage caps: Yes

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Sentry 12/16 features

Distributed tracing across services: Yes
Code-level transaction traces: Yes
Automatic service dependency map: No
Database query performance breakdown: Yes
Continuous code profiling in production: Yes
Deployment markers on performance charts: Yes
Apdex and latency percentile tracking: Yes
Error rate tracking per endpoint: No
Alert thresholds on latency and error rate: Yes
OpenTelemetry trace ingestion: Yes
Auto-instrumentation for major languages: No
Kubernetes and container-aware tracing: No
Serverless function tracing: Yes
Trace-to-log correlation: Yes
Trace sampling controls: Yes
Free APM tier with usage caps: Yes

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Pricing

New Relic

Free plan with 100 GB ingest a month; Standard full platform users $10 first, $99 each additional; Pro $418.80 per full platform user monthly, $349 annual.

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Sentry

Free Developer plan for 1 user; Team $26/mo billed annually or $29 monthly; Business $80/mo billed annually or $89 monthly; Enterprise by quote; Seer add-on $40 per active contributor a month.

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