Used For

• +**Your WordPress site randomly slows to a crawl** → See exactly which database query is killing performance and fix it in minutes instead of hours
• +**Users complain about checkout failures but you can't reproduce them** → Real user monitoring shows you the exact browser, location, and error causing problems
• +**Your Kubernetes pods crash and you're digging through logs manually** → Get alerts with full stack traces pointing to the exact code line that broke
• +Simulates user journeys automatically - catches broken checkout flows before real customers hit them
• +Connects directly to your IDE - click from error alert straight to the problematic code

Best For

• >Your app keeps breaking at 3am and you're tired of playing detective with log files
• >Managing 50+ servers and need to know which one's about to die
• >Dev team bigger than 10 people who can justify $500+ monthly for sanity

Not For

• -Solo developers or teams under 10 people — you're paying $49+ per user for features you don't need
• -Anyone wanting simple uptime monitoring — this is built for complex applications, not basic websites
• -Budget-conscious startups — data costs add up fast when you're monitoring everything

Pairs With

• *Kubernetes (where New Relic agents live inside your pods, watching them crash and recover)
• *AWS or Google Cloud (New Relic pulls metrics from your cloud provider to correlate app issues with infrastructure)
• *PostgreSQL or MySQL (to see which database queries are slowing everything down)
• *Slack (where you get alerts about production fires at 2am)
• *PagerDuty (for escalating alerts when New Relic detects something critical)
• *GitHub or GitLab (New Relic links errors back to specific commits that broke things)
• *Docker (agents run in containers alongside your applications)

The Catch

• !You need separate agents for your app, servers, and browser monitoring - setup takes 4-6 hours for full coverage
• !The free tier is basically useless - you'll hit the 100GB data limit quickly with real monitoring
• !Learning their query language (NRQL) takes a week if you want custom dashboards that actually help

Bottom Line

Enterprise-grade monitoring that costs enterprise prices even if you're not enterprise yet.