BigPanda vs New Relic comparison

BigPanda and New Relic are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. BigPanda is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.3, while New Relic is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2. BigPanda holds a 0.6% mindshare in IM, compared to New Relic’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of BigPanda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of New Relic users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

BigPanda and New Relic are popular in the tech industry for different reasons. BigPanda seems to have the upper hand due to its competitive pricing and customer support.

Features: BigPanda users value its event correlation capabilities, efficient alert management, and integration ease. New Relic users highlight comprehensive monitoring tools, in-depth analytics, and a wide range of integrations.

Room for Improvement: BigPanda could enhance integration options, improve alert noise reduction, and expand automation features. New Relic could offer better customization, more affordable pricing, and simplified user interfaces.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BigPanda is praised for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. New Relic's deployment is more complex, but its customer service is well-regarded.

Pricing and ROI: BigPanda is noted for competitive setup costs, predictable pricing, and favorable ROI. New Relic incurs higher setup costs and variable ROI, making BigPanda more attractive to budget-conscious buyers.

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BigPanda vs. New Relic

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

5.5

BigPanda surpasses Netcool in efficiency, reducing resources and enhancing incident resolution and recovery times for heavy users.

Sentiment score

6.2

New Relic users see improved efficiency, faster issue resolution, reduced downtime, and positive ROI despite premium costs.

BigPanda offers significant time-saving, cost-saving, and resource-saving benefits.

reviewer2691138

Technical Lead

BigPanda saves time with its advanced features and manages large environments while requiring fewer resources compared to our previous tool, Netcool.

CHANTI BANOTH

Software Engineer at Trianz

Resource count has probably reduced by about ten to twenty percent due to the reduced incident count, which enables me to identify issues faster, meaning business recovery is quicker.

KiranMs

Director Of Engineering at Broadcom Inc.

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There is return on investment because since we reduced the downtime, we can definitely save a lot of money within that period.

BasilJiji

System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

There is a definite return on investment for New Relic, as we would not have invested in building its infrastructure if there were no returns.

ArjunSharma

senior software at Norton Lifelock

After implementing New Relic, we have decreased staffing requirements while saving time and money.

reviewer2805771

Senior Observability Engineer I at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.5

BigPanda's support is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite occasional delays, with some users noting communication issues.

Sentiment score

7.4

New Relic's support is rated positively for quick responses, professionalism, and effective assistance, despite occasional delays.

If BigPanda can consistently provide such competent contacts, I would rate the support ten out of ten, otherwise, it is an eight out of ten.

Atharva Jagdale

Engineer - Cloud and Infrastructure Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Companies like CoreLogix, which is a log platform, achieve ten out of ten due to their responsiveness.

Michael Wenn

CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

For technical support, we have only had to address password resets and alert mismatching.

reviewer2691138

Technical Lead

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If I drop an email to them, they will respond quickly to my email.

Vamsi Busa

Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Customer support from New Relic is very good, and we rarely need to create support tickets.

ArjunSharma

senior software at Norton Lifelock

They are very polite and helped him out.

TusharGoel

Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

BigPanda efficiently scales across environments, managing numerous alerts and servers, with high ratings despite occasional peak-time delays.

Sentiment score

7.7

New Relic scales well with diverse infrastructures, is generally cost-effective, but has some limitations with specific integrations like Kubernetes.

It handles large volumes of alerts without limitations.

Sneha Vigneshwari

Works

We manage a large environment with over 50,000 servers and various monitoring tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, and Datadog.

CHANTI BANOTH

Software Engineer at Trianz

I rate the scalability of BigPanda at eight.

RajneeshKumar3

Manager Observability at ICE

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We currently use New Relic for tens of thousands of developers and hundreds of teams within our organization, and we have not encountered any scalability issues.

ArjunSharma

senior software at Norton Lifelock

It is also suitable for cloud native architectures, SaaS, or software as a service, and for high volume data ingestion also.

TusharGoel

Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital

Regarding New Relic's scalability, it excels at the enterprise level for cloud integrations that can utilize tags.

reviewer2805771

Senior Observability Engineer I at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

BigPanda is stable with slight slowdowns; users request intuitive features, appreciate communication, and note improved stability and task management.

Sentiment score

7.9

New Relic is reliable and stable, handling heavy data well, although it requires familiarity with occasional performance issues.

BigPanda is now stable.

Sneha Vigneshwari

Works

I would rate the availability of BigPanda at nine because it's almost 99.99% available.

RajneeshKumar3

Manager Observability at ICE

However, when handling critical traffic, the BigPanda site can slow down, which we manage with a load balancer.

CHANTI BANOTH

Software Engineer at Trianz

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New Relic lags sometimes.

TusharGoel

Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital

New Relic is stable based on my experience, as I have not seen any problems with the UI.

Oleksii Barybin

Contingent Worker at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

BigPanda requires AI enhancements, bug fixes, improved usability, expanded features, and better integration to address cost and performance issues.

New Relic faces criticism for complex interfaces, limited data retention, high pricing, and inefficient configuration impacting user experience.

A 'deep dive' analysis feature would be appreciated to give detailed insights such as CPU usage and disk space analysis.

Sneha Vigneshwari

Works

It would be beneficial if BigPanda leveraged AI to solve critical issues related to editing and sending alerts based on enrichment mapping files.

CHANTI BANOTH

Software Engineer at Trianz

If BigPanda could integrate AI, it would enhance the platform significantly by offering chatbot functionality within the BigPanda UI.

Atharva Jagdale

Engineer - Cloud and Infrastructure Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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If they could improve the customer support by reducing their SLA within three to five days, if they could remediate everything, that will be so much helpful.

BasilJiji

System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Using real-time data, if there are any malicious patterns or something happening, they can identify those.

Hari Rajendiran

Platform Software Engineer 4 at Nexthink

Because of the pricing model, organizations have experienced uncontrolled costs and were not able to afford New Relic.

Aditya Krishnakumar

Senior SRE Engineer at SentinelOne

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Setup Cost

BigPanda offers competitive pricing and flexible licensing, benefiting high-growth companies with potential costs reaching $200,000 annually.

New Relic offers varied pricing based on features and usage, with some high costs but essential capabilities for enterprises.

The pricing for BigPanda is reasonable compared to other event management tools, given its advantages.

CHANTI BANOTH

Software Engineer at Trianz

There are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to resource investment in maintaining the dashboards for these capabilities.

KiranMs

Director Of Engineering at Broadcom Inc.

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Considering the features New Relic offers, the pricing or cost setup has not been a blocker for our budget.

ArjunSharma

senior software at Norton Lifelock

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for synthetic monitoring is that minions used to cost a lot.

Palak Bhawsar

DevOps engineer at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

As we talk about pricing, it is not that much cheaper.

HemantKumar7

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

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Valuable Features

BigPanda enhances incident management with AI-driven analysis, reducing response times via integration and alert consolidation for improved reliability.

New Relic offers real-time performance monitoring, analytics, and integration features, enhancing application performance and client satisfaction.

Its automation has significantly improved incident response times, reducing the process to within one minute.

Sneha Vigneshwari

Works

It can correlate multiple issues within a single device, create a single incident, and thus reduce noise and provide faster resolution.

RajneeshKumar3

Manager Observability at ICE

BigPanda improves service reliability with instant resolution, increased uptime, and reduced mean time to resolution, thus enhancing service quality.

reviewer2691138

Technical Lead

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Using New Relic speeds up troubleshooting and resolution, giving us a clearer picture of where issues are, thus saving time and effort.

Pietro Dell'Erba

Head of API at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

New Relic is very useful for teams that don't have much of a dedicated DevOps team but want to have observability for their platform, and it's an easy way to get started.

Aditya Krishnakumar

Senior SRE Engineer at SentinelOne

New Relic has positively impacted our organization by reducing errors, improving performance, and saving time.

ArjunSharma

senior software at Norton Lifelock

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Categories and Ranking

BigPanda

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

22nd

Ranking in AIOps

9th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Alerting and Incident Management (10th)

New Relic

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

9th

Ranking in AIOps

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

175

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (4th), Network Monitoring Software (9th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Mobile APM (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 0.6%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of New Relic is 2.4%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
New Relic	2.4%
BigPanda	0.6%
Other	97.0%

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Q&A Highlights

SystemsEngineer234z

Principal Enterprise Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 10, 2020

Any advice about APM solutions?

We are currently going through a paper-based analysis to select an Enterprise APM solution. Our Contenders are 1. Dynatrace 2. Cisco(AppDynamics) 3. Broadcom DX-APM Shortlisted based on existing relationships with other products and services they provide. We discounted New Relic- despite their growing capability - as they are yet to enter the enterprise APM solution scene. With regards to your response "We eliminated Datadog due to a lack of real user monitoring and AppD based on experience and licensing .." : Will you be willing to expand on Appd - what was your experience and issues w.r.t licensing. These could help us with our evaluation. Much appreciated. Regards Adrian

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Michael Wenn

CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Automated incident workflows have reduced alert noise and now improve response efficiency

In my opinion, the best feature of BigPanda is its speed in terms of deployment. It has very strong integration with all of the major platforms and workflows that organizations need. The biggest customers are enterprises like HSBC and Barclays. Implementing something effective for them that dramatically reduces meantime to repair and the number of incidents is substantially difficult, as projects can often extend three years with very small results. BigPanda is different; it is a tool relied on by many enterprises, fitting over existing toolsets rather than trying to replace them, which makes it non-competitive to many existing alerts and monitoring tools. It enhances existing systems to provide actionable intelligence for business solutions.

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BasilJiji

System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Real-time alerts have reduced server outage impact and support fast incident response

In the dashboard, if they could show a little more metrics regarding the application and related things, that would be how New Relic could be improved. Currently, there are things showing from the server level and application level, but it can be improved. That is what I felt. Regarding user interface, I do not feel much concern, but for some kind of issues when we are trying to get support from the New Relic team, their SLA seems to be long. They are taking seven to ten working days for resolving some kind of scenario or issue. That is a bit difficult for us. If they could improve the customer support by reducing their SLA within three to five days, if they could remediate everything, that will be so much helpful. When it comes to the customer support part, I felt they need to be a little more improved on that part. The support overall is good, but they can improve. That is the reason I have given it eight out of ten.

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Answers from the Community

SystemsEngineer234z

Principal Enterprise Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 8, 2020

Any advice about APM solutions?

2 out of 5 answers

reviewer802371

Service Assurance, Senior Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2020

Could you please share your requirements ? There are a lot tools can be added to the list. I spent almost 6 months to test and check many tools then I select eG enterprise.

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reviewer1352679

IT Technical Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 20, 2020

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitoring. We maintain critical processing on our mainframe so there was a desire to include this in our transaction trace. Due to a highly mature ELK implementation, we are not trying to incorporate log analytics into solution buy may consider in the future. We had AppD, Dynatrace, New Relic, and CA Wily all in house at the time of our evaluation. We eliminated Datadog due to a lack of real user monitoring and AppD based on experience and licensing. Between Dynatrace and New Relic, Dynatrace won based on the automation, integrated AI, support for "old" techs, and confidence we could eliminate multiple APM and infra monitoring tools. I would not include products like BigPanda, MoogSoft, in this analysis. They are not monitoring solutions but event correlation solutions. You will need additional monitoring products to capture data and feed them. Having said that if you cannot consolidate tools you will likely need to purchase an event solution to make sense of all the alarms. We did evaluate these products but with Dynatrace AI did not feel the business value was there for the investment. Here's a quick pro/con list on Dynatrace & New Relic from our analysis. New Relic Pros: Insights is an awesome product and capability. Lots of capabilities and plugins to extend data collection. The APM dashboard is aesthetically pleasing and intuitive. Good training and documentation are available to support the product. New Relic Cons: Requires lots of manual configurations to implement and support. Insights product requires an investment of time to achieve value. Licensing is a nightmare as there is virtually no transparency in what you are being charged for. Lack of solution to consolidate alerts across implementation other than significant investment in insights to manually achieve this. Dynatrace Pros: Very simple to implement and maintain with out of the box automation which supports modern (cloud/Kubernetes) and "old" (mainframe). In-app chat is helpful. High integration of infra and APM data for full-stack observability and engineering. Topology and trace discovery is more reliable than other products or our CMDB. Synthetics are easy to set up for any user. AI-assisted problem analysis on the trace discovery streamlines troubleshooting. AI includes "events" in an analysis like VMotion, deployment events. Have not done yet but looking to leverage monitoring as code for a fully integrated and automated delivery pipeline. See keptn.sh open source project. Dynatrace Cons: User SQL lacks some functions of NRQL for user analysis. Host, process, and service data is not available to query within the product. Alarm processing lacks some granular controls. The Plug-in library is less robust. Good luck with your decision!

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	51
Large Enterprise	79

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigPanda?

Regarding extra expenses, I pay more for communication and do not incur costs for another dashboard perspective, but there are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to re...

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What needs improvement with BigPanda?

Something that comes to mind regarding improvements is communication, as I rely heavily on another tool. If BigPanda could provide communication capabilities beyond just sending notifications—such ...

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What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?

While I appreciate many aspects of New Relic, I believe the product could improve in some areas—specifically, some advanced capabilities can have a learning curve for new users, and the licensing a...

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What is your primary use case for New Relic Insights?

Since I'm a performance engineer, I typically use New Relic day-to-day for investigating any performance bottlenecks identified during our performance testing of any application. I look at the resu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for New Relic?

As we talk about pricing, it is not that much cheaper. It totally depends on your ingestion, how much ingestion it is taking. So, it is totally dependent on that.

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

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New Relic Browser, New Relic Applied Intelligence, New Relic Insights, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Servers, New Relic APM

Overview

BigPanda enhances incident management through root cause analysis, alert deduplication, and event correlation. The AI-driven platform is designed for environments with high alert volumes, providing insights for data-driven decisions and seamless integration with tools like ServiceNow and Teams.

BigPanda addresses the complexities of incident management by offering an AI-focused approach to anomaly detection. Automation improves response times, while unified analytics supports informed decision-making. Despite AI integration and usability needing enhancement, the platform simplifies observability and ticketing through integrations with New Relic and Slack. Features like enrichment mapping and unified search improve functionality, though reporting and visualization aspects require development.

What are the key features of BigPanda?

Root Cause Analysis: Efficient identification of the sources of incidents.
Alert Deduplication: Reduces alert noise by consolidating duplicates.
Event Correlation: Connects related alerts for easier incident management.
Automation: Streamlines processes for faster response times.
Seamless Integration: Connects with tools like ServiceNow and Teams.

What benefits or ROI can users find in reviews?

Increased Efficiency: Automates incident management tasks.
Operational Insights: Provides valuable analytics for strategic decisions.
Improved Collaboration: Integrates notifications with Slack and other platforms.
Reduced Alert Fatigue: Deduplication and suppression improve focus on critical issues.

BigPanda is widely implemented in industries focusing on observability and predictive analysis, providing efficient alert processing and incident management. Users utilize its capabilities to seamlessly integrate with solutions like Dynatrace, particularly in environments that handle high volumes of alerts, ensuring effective notification delivery through various platforms.

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New Relic offers real-time application monitoring and insight into performance bottlenecks. Its customizable dashboards and APM integration provide efficient operational support, while server performance alerts ensure quick issue detection.

New Relic provides comprehensive monitoring of application performance, tracking bottlenecks across databases and front-end components. Users employ it for server and infrastructure monitoring, as well as analyzing key metrics such as CPU and memory usage. The solution's ability to integrate with tools like PagerDuty enhances incident management capabilities. However, users have expressed a need for improvements in query language simplicity, more detailed historical insights, and better mobile app monitoring support.

What are New Relic's most important features?

Real-Time Monitoring: Provides instant visibility into application performance.
Detailed Transaction Tracing: Identifies specific transaction issues quickly.
Error Rate Tracking: Monitors and reports on error occurrences efficiently.
Customizable Dashboards: Tailors dashboard views for specific needs.
APM Integration: Seamlessly integrates with application performance management tools.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Operational Efficiency: Quick issue detection reduces downtime.
Improved Debugging: Enhanced error analysis supports rapid problem resolution.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Offers a holistic view of application performance and user behavior.
Incident Management: Integration with incident tools helps streamline responses.
Efficient Alerts: Rapid alert systems ensure timely notifications of issues.

In industries like e-commerce and financial services, New Relic supports application performance monitoring to enhance user experience and system reliability. Organizations leverage its insights for optimizing performance, particularly in server operations and infrastructure management. Its ability to monitor API failures through synthetic monitoring is crucial for maintaining high service levels.

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Sample Customers

Nagios, ServiceNow, ITSM, NOC, CMDB Evolved, RemedyIncident Management Process

World Fuel Services, Verizon, FootLocker, McDonald's, Trainline, Mondia Media, Confused, Costa Coffee, Ryanair, Marks & Spencer, William Hill, Delivery Hero, Skyscanner, BASF, DAZN, Veygo, Virtuo, movingimage, talabat, Australia Post, Tokopedia, Seven Network, Virgin Australia, Zomato, BigBasket, Mercado Libre, Lending Club

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