New Relic vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

New Relic and PagerDuty are both solutions in the AIOps category. New Relic is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2, while PagerDuty is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. New Relic holds a 7.3% mindshare in AIOP, compared to PagerDuty’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of New Relic users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 99% of PagerDuty users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 11, 2026

PagerDuty Operations Cloud and New Relic are competitive in incident management and application performance monitoring. Based on the data, New Relic seems to have an upper hand due to its comprehensive performance insights and analytics, offering superior optimization opportunities.

Features: PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides instant alert escalation, effective on-call scheduling, and seamless integration with other tools for swift incident management. It offers robust notification systems that ensure quick responses during critical issues. New Relic excels in delivering detailed performance metrics, real-time monitoring, and analytics, providing users with in-depth insights into application performance. It empowers users with transaction traces and infrastructure monitoring to understand system impacts efficiently.

Room for Improvement: PagerDuty Operations Cloud could benefit from more advanced analytics, customizable reporting, and better AI-driven alert filtering. Users have noted its high pricing and complex configuration as hurdles. New Relic users point out the expensive licensing and suggest easier integration capabilities and enhanced AI-based insights for handling intricate environments more effectively.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both PagerDuty Operations Cloud and New Relic excel in cloud deployments. PagerDuty Operations Cloud receives mixed reviews on customer service, praised for its technical support but occasionally slow responses. New Relic is appreciated for satisfactory deployment capabilities, though criticized for its high costs and complexity in setup and support. Customer service is generally well-received, with some room for improvement in intuitiveness for newcomers.

Pricing and ROI: PagerDuty Operations Cloud is crucial for large enterprises, providing significant ROI through automation but viewed as costly for smaller teams. Users mention substantial savings in reduced downtime. New Relic offers comprehensive features at a high price, seen as a premium solution that delivers strong ROI, but its cost might hinder smaller organizations with limited budgets.

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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

6.1

New Relic effectively enhances application performance by quickly resolving issues, saving time, and improving customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

5.5

PagerDuty Operations Cloud improves efficiency, reduces downtime, and enhances sales by streamlining incident resolution and minimizing alert fatigue.

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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The escalation was not possible at all before, which led to the L1 team being under too much stress.

Mukesh Ts

Software Developer at Webspruce

The alert reduction feature has greatly impacted our ability to prevent costly incidents, as we can accurately respond to alerts with the help of autonomous AI agents, which reduces erroneous notifications.

DeepakReddy

Sr.Devops engineer at Scaler

We definitely save time with PagerDuty Operations Cloud. It saves more than half an hour—30 minutes—for each incident.

reviewer2835345

Sr. Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.3

New Relic's customer service is praised for its responsiveness and support, though some users desire quicker, clearer responses.

Sentiment score

7.0

Customers praise PagerDuty for responsive, knowledgeable support, although some desire faster response times despite overall high satisfaction.

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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PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a good product for the organization and the support team is highly effective and responsive.

Navin Samuel

Delivery Manager at Cognizant

We have standing weekly calls to discuss any doubts, and there is a dedicated team, including an engineer and a PagerDuty Relations Manager, assigned to support us.

Pavithra Jadapa

Technology Analyst at Infosys

we have never had an issue when reaching out to someone in customer service

Kkonovalov Kanavalev

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at IMO Health

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

New Relic is highly scalable, supporting varied workloads and environments, aided by seamless AWS integration and a flexible SaaS model.

Sentiment score

7.2

PagerDuty Operations Cloud excels in scalability, seamless integration, and onboarding, handling high alert volumes but can be costly.

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.

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

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Scalability for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is excellent, and I rate it at 9.9.

Chandrakanth Sangale

Network Operations Center Engineer at HTC Global Inc

Whatever top-notch tools we are using as an enterprise solution, PagerDuty Operations Cloud has kept itself current and integrates nicely with all the tools we use these days.

Ausaaf Ahmad

Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are able to extend our PagerDuty Operations Cloud configuration without major challenges or changes to our overall operational model.

Di Singh Negi

Lead Data Ops Engineer at Wipro Limited

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.9

New Relic is stable, reliable, and efficient, with swift issue resolution, though minor performance hiccups occur occasionally.

Sentiment score

8.3

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is praised for high stability, effective incident management, seamless AWS integration, and excellent uptime.

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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We have never experienced any downtime or latency issues from PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

Akhil Viswam

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It never breaks down for us, and considering I have devoted 20 years of my career to IT infrastructure operations, where everything typically breaks down, including Jira and ServiceNow, it is impressive to say that PagerDuty Operations Cloud has not caused disruptions.

Divyajyoti Ghosh

CSO C Apac at Autodesk, Inc.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the most stable solution.

Hitesh Lodha

Senior Cloud Engineer at Ollion

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Room For Improvement

Users request plugin enhancements, better data retention, third-party integration, improved interface, and optimized alerting, dashboards, and pricing.

PagerDuty needs UI updates, better incident management, enhanced AI, improved reporting, and support for multilingual features and scheduling.

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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It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.

JeremyEmmett

Sr Director - Global Support APJ at HashiCorp

With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users.

Nambi Srinivasan

Senior SRE at IBM

Additionally, I think a sandbox mode would be helpful for new team members, allowing us to guide them in simulating alerts, performing escalation policies, and creating PagerDuty Operations Cloud channels.

Aashish Bhandari

Dev Ops Engineer | Cloud Cost Optimization at HCLSoftware

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Setup Cost

New Relic's pricing is often seen as high but justified by its comprehensive features, despite confusing models.

PagerDuty pricing suits medium to large enterprises but can be costly for small teams, scaling with usage and features.

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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I had around seven users part of it for a base pricing of around $450 per user, primarily for custom workflows and the ITSM part.

Nambi Srinivasan

Senior SRE at IBM

The pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a bit expensive, especially for startups like us, compared to the other platform which I mentioned, which is Rootly.

Shashank Venugopal

Dev Ops Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Licensing is straightforward but scaling seats for larger teams can get expensive, especially when adding advanced features.

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Cloud Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

New Relic offers real-time monitoring, easy dashboards, and alerting, enhancing performance insights with integration and predictive analytics.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud enhances efficiency with AI alerts, integrations, and incident management, boosting revenue and client satisfaction.

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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It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person.

JeremyEmmett

Sr Director - Global Support APJ at HashiCorp

In addition to those features, I also find the integration and reporting aspects of PagerDuty Operations Cloud valuable, as it records all triggered calls and incidents, enabling us to analyze patterns and identify the times when systems go down, thus assisting us in understanding and addressing the underlying causes.

Ajaykumar Gupta

Senior Business Application Analyst (Product Team) at Kotak Mahindra Bank

Before, setting up everything was very difficult. Now, we don't have to think about it. We can simply set it up in PagerDuty and it works.

Mukesh Ts

Software Developer at Webspruce

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Categories and Ranking

New Relic

Ranking in AIOps

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

176

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)

PagerDuty Operations Cloud

Ranking in AIOps

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AIOps category, the mindshare of New Relic is 7.3%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 2.4%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AIOps Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
New Relic	7.3%
PagerDuty Operations Cloud	2.4%
Other	90.3%

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Featured Reviews

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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reviewer2879727

Cloud Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Unified incident response has reduced alert noise and improves on-call focus and coordination

PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its noise reduction by making deduplication and suppression more automated instead of manually tuned, and the service dependency graph could be more intuitive with cleaner visuals and easier-to-understand root cause tracing during major incidents. Automation could go further with smarter runbook triggers and AI-driven suggestions to help find root causes, which could save a lot of time for engineers who are struggling to understand what is actually happening. These AI capabilities could lower the time by maybe 50–60%. Analytics and reporting could be more flexible, allowing custom dashboards and filters and team-level MTTA and MTTR breakdowns, so that it is segregated based on teams and it is much easier to have custom dashboards for the teams to understand more. Alert storms were a recurring frustration for the on-call team, and escalation overrides and service dependency graphs can get a bit confusing in larger environments. More customizable analytics and smarter automation would make the platform even easier, more flexible and more powerful for the team to understand. PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its analytics flexibility with customized dashboards and AI capabilities to be more trained and more reliable. Service dependency mapping can also feel cluttered in big environments, making it harder to trace upstream and downstream impacts during bigger incidents. We implemented PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI to help with alert grouping and early incident insights, but accuracy was not consistent enough to rely on during critical events. It occasionally grouped unrelated alerts or missed correlations, which limited the operational efficiency gains we expected. The on-call team still depended heavily on manual triage because AI suggestions were not always aligned with the real root cause. Overall, AI added some value but it has not yet reached the reliability needed to significantly improve the incident response efficiency. It needs more training or more work.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Performing Arts

11%

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	52
Large Enterprise	79

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	74

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?

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What is your primary use case for New Relic Insights?

As an Application Monitoring Engineer, my primary responsibilities include ensuring the uptime of services, managing infrastructure, and monitoring transactions. I use New Relic to set up incidents...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?

I am not sure about the influence of PagerDuty Operations Cloud on revenue protection in terms of reducing alert fatigue and incident costs, as these are organizational-level decisions, and employe...

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What needs improvement with PagerDuty?

I think PagerDuty Operations Cloud could be improved by having two fields for incident updates. In my work, I handle incidents that have two fields: work notes visible only to developers working on...

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What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?

My usual use cases with PagerDuty Operations Cloud involve handling incidents through a full flow. When there is an outage, an incident is created that can be either severity one or severity two. A...

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

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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PagerDuty Operations Cloud focuses on efficient incident management, featuring advanced alert and notification systems, mobile alerts, and AI-driven functionalities that facilitate streamlined on-call schedules and integrations with major monitoring tools.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers comprehensive incident management with real-time alerts and notifications via mobile, SMS, and calls. This empowers teams to respond swiftly and reduce missed incidents. Efficient on-call management through automated scheduling and escalation enhances team productivity, while AI-driven alert grouping minimizes noise. Integration with tools like AWS and Datadog further streamlines operations.

What are the key features of PagerDuty Operations Cloud?

Real-time Incident Alerts: Improves response times by ensuring immediate notifications.
AI-driven Alert Grouping: Minimizes noise for enhanced focus and efficiency.
Automated Scheduling: Streamlines on-call management and escalation.
Monitoring Tool Integration: Seamlessly works with tools like AWS and Datadog.
Mobile Alerts: Enables SMS and call notifications for instant communication.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Increased Efficiency: Reduces operational burden through automation.
Improved Team Productivity: Lowers incident noise and accelerates resolution.
Enhanced Customization: Tailors alert prioritization and escalation policies.
Time Savings: Expedites incident management and reduces error rates.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud implementation spans industries like e-commerce and IT services, where it automates anomaly detection and manages high-severity incidents. Its integration capabilities and AIOps features significantly enhance incident management, proving valuable for sectors demanding real-time performance and responsiveness.

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Sample Customers

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

40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast

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