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Monte Carlo vs New Relic comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
6.9
Monte Carlo accelerates data issue detection by 60%-70% and reduces downtime by 40%-50%, saving 1,200 hours annually.
Sentiment score
6.2
New Relic users see improved efficiency, faster issue resolution, reduced downtime, and positive ROI despite premium costs.
It definitely reduces resource hours needed for work, lessening the effort required significantly compared to when Monte Carlo is not in place.
Data Engineer & Management & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Monte Carlo has solved the challenge of monitoring ingestion health at scale.
Project Superintendent at Teshama Group
Monte Carlo saves me roughly 30% to 40% of my time in doing verifications or data quality checks.
Enterprise Network Architect at Concordia University-Wisconsin
There is return on investment because since we reduced the downtime, we can definitely save a lot of money within that period.
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.
senior software at Norton Lifelock
After implementing New Relic, we have decreased staffing requirements while saving time and money.
Senior Observability Engineer I at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Monte Carlo's customer service is highly rated for providing responsive and efficient support through a team and AI platform.
Sentiment score
7.4
New Relic's support is rated positively for quick responses, professionalism, and effective assistance, despite occasional delays.
When I requested help regarding the deletion of monitors, I received a very good and quick response.
Data Engineer & Management & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Monte Carlo's customer support team responds very fast.
Staff Data Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
My experiences reaching out to them show that they were very quick to help and very professional.
Project Superintendent at Teshama Group
If I drop an email to them, they will respond quickly to my email.
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.
senior software at Norton Lifelock
They are very polite and helped him out.
Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Monte Carlo scales effectively, accommodating increased data demands and providing flexibility for organizations experiencing growth and expanding data volumes.
Sentiment score
7.7
New Relic scales well with diverse infrastructures, is generally cost-effective, but has some limitations with specific integrations like Kubernetes.
Monte Carlo's scalability is impressive.
Data Engineer & Management & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
As our company's business grows and the data volume increases, Monte Carlo scales very well.
Staff Data Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Monte Carlo is robust and scalable for our data needs.
Senior Data & Platforms Engineer at PepsiCo
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.
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.
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.
Senior Observability Engineer I at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
Users praise Monte Carlo for its stable and reliable performance, noting its consistent uptime and absence of crashes.
Sentiment score
7.9
New Relic is reliable and stable, handling heavy data well, although it requires familiarity with occasional performance issues.
I did not see any issues with respect to stability.
Principal Data Engineer at Teradata Corporation
New Relic lags sometimes.
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.
Contingent Worker at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Monte Carlo struggles with AI accuracy, user experience, anomaly detection, UI, monitor deletion, database features, and pricing competitiveness.
New Relic faces criticism for complex interfaces, limited data retention, high pricing, and inefficient configuration impacting user experience.
Artificial intelligence can access multiple systems underneath Monte Carlo, such as any kind of database or any kind of real-time source systems.
Principal Data Engineer at Teradata Corporation
Monte Carlo has just updated the UI. The previous one was user-friendly, and now they have added AI-related elements in the current UI, which is good.
Data Engineer & Management & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They need to find their way back, establish a product roadmap, and have real engineers work on improvements rather than heavily push AI down users' throats.
Senior Data & Platforms Engineer at PepsiCo
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.
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.
Platform Software Engineer 4 at Nexthink
Because of the pricing model, organizations have experienced uncontrolled costs and were not able to afford New Relic.
Senior SRE Engineer at SentinelOne
 

Setup Cost

Monte Carlo offers reasonable pricing for enterprise observability, with manageable setup costs and adaptable licensing for different organization sizes.
New Relic offers varied pricing based on features and usage, with some high costs but essential capabilities for enterprises.
I find it highly affordable for any organization sizes.
Project Superintendent at Teshama Group
Considering the features New Relic offers, the pricing or cost setup has not been a blocker for our budget.
senior software at Norton Lifelock
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for synthetic monitoring is that minions used to cost a lot.
DevOps engineer at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
As we talk about pricing, it is not that much cheaper.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Monte Carlo enhances data reliability through AI-driven alerts, anomaly detection, and integration, reducing manual effort and improving decision-making.
New Relic offers real-time performance monitoring, analytics, and integration features, enhancing application performance and client satisfaction.
Monte Carlo has accelerated the development process and has reduced the testing time significantly.
AI Machine Learning Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The system does not send false alerts.
Principal Data Engineer at Teradata Corporation
Monte Carlo has positively impacted my organization by significantly reducing manual tasks.
Data Engineer & Management & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Using New Relic speeds up troubleshooting and resolution, giving us a clearer picture of where issues are, thus saving time and effort.
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.
Senior SRE Engineer at SentinelOne
New Relic has positively impacted our organization by reducing errors, improving performance, and saving time.
senior software at Norton Lifelock
 

Categories and Ranking

Monte Carlo
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (23rd), Data Observability (1st)
New Relic
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 Infrastructure Monitoring (9th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Mobile APM (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (3rd), AIOps (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Monte Carlo and New Relic aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Monte Carlo is designed for Data Observability and holds a mindshare of 24.4%, down 32.2% compared to last year.
New Relic, on the other hand, focuses on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability, holds 3.7% mindshare, down 6.4% since last year.
Data Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Monte Carlo24.4%
Unravel Data13.8%
Acceldata11.1%
Other50.699999999999996%
Data Observability
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
New Relic3.7%
Dynatrace5.3%
Datadog4.6%
Other86.4%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

KB
Senior Data & Platforms Engineer at PepsiCo
Improved data health and incident reduction have revealed issues while AI direction still needs work
Monte Carlo needs to stop their reliance on AI, as it is not going well and is degrading the entire product. They need to find their way back, establish a product roadmap, and have real engineers work on improvements rather than heavily push AI down users' throats. They need to stop relying on AI as heavily as they have been doing, as this has really degraded the user experience. The overall direction they are taking with AI needs to be examined, as at some point it seems they have simply stopped making any improvements. We have not used Monte Carlo's AI capabilities significantly. We primarily use it for investigating alerts from time to time. However, we do not use it extensively, so I do not think it is fair to comment comprehensively on it. Their incident tracking and incident debugging bot is useful for new analysts who are starting onboard. It helps them debug incidents, get a clearer picture, and achieve a clear head start to reach the root of the problem faster. Regarding accuracy and reliability, I would rate it at eighty to eighty-five percent. Given the current inherent non-reliability of AI models, every single thing that Monte Carlo says needs to be validated.
BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Retailer
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business65
Midsize Enterprise51
Large Enterprise79
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Monte Carlo?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that pricing is commensurate with the enterprise-grade observability. While initial setup, particularly tuning the monitors, demands ...
What needs improvement with Monte Carlo?
One way Monte Carlo can be improved is when rules are breached, it sends an email containing alerts. However, if I want to analyze a particular alert deeper, I have to click on the alert link and f...
What is your primary use case for Monte Carlo?
Monte Carlo's main use case is setting rules to test the quality of data coming from the source side. For example, a rule can be set up for null checks in a particular column of source tables. If a...
Any advice about APM solutions?
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 monitor...
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...
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...
 

Comparisons

 

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

 

Sample Customers

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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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