Rollbar vs New Relic

Developers should use Rollbar when building and maintaining production applications to quickly identify and resolve errors, reducing downtime and improving user experience meets developers should use new relic when building or maintaining applications that require high availability, performance optimization, and proactive issue detection, such as in e-commerce, saas, or microservices architectures. Here's our take.

Rollbar

Nice Pick

Developers should use Rollbar when building and maintaining production applications to quickly identify and resolve errors, reducing downtime and improving user experience

Pros

• It is particularly valuable for teams practicing continuous deployment, as it provides immediate feedback on code changes and helps prioritize critical bugs
• Related to: error-monitoring, application-performance-monitoring

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

New Relic

Developers should use New Relic when building or maintaining applications that require high availability, performance optimization, and proactive issue detection, such as in e-commerce, SaaS, or microservices architectures

Pros

• It is particularly valuable for teams adopting DevOps practices, as it integrates with CI/CD pipelines and provides actionable insights to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and improve user experience through features like APM, infrastructure monitoring, and AI-powered alerts
• Related to: application-performance-monitoring, observability

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. Rollbar is a tool while New Relic is a platform. We picked Rollbar based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

Rollbar wins

Based on overall popularity. Rollbar is more widely used, but New Relic excels in its own space.