Analytics and monitoring
New Relic alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
SigNoz/signoz★31,784 GitHub starslicence unclearOpenTelemetry-native observability platform for collecting, storing, querying, and visualizing logs, metrics, and traces with alerting.Open on GitHub ↗openobserve/openobserve★20,585 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceAll-in-one observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, pipelines, and dashboards with a single-binary deployment.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- AI/agentic monitoring and automated remediation (New Relic Autopilot / SRE Agent)
- New Relic AI features such as session replay with AI and agent tracing for hallucinations
- Advanced compute-based features (Transaction 360, Security RX, New Relic AI)
- Large prebuilt integrations catalogue and out-of-the-box connectors
- Enterprise SLAs, FedRAMP/HIPAA-ready Data Plus options, and hosted scale
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches New Relic, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.