Monitoring

Should you build your own New Relic?

Collect a small transparent telemetry stream and run a few dashboards locally

Worth subscribing · the value goes beyond code
Price $10/moEstimated savings $120/yrEstimated time closest consolation build: one sittingCategory MonitoringCatalog votes 0

A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For New Relic, collect a small transparent telemetry stream and run a few dashboards locally. The hard boundary is large telemetry platform, agents, query engine, correlation, global ingestion, and support, plus independent infrastructure and reliable alerting.

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The complete prompt
Build a closest honest personal substitute for New Relic in an empty repository.
Use Go, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, a Next.js 15 dashboard, and Docker Compose; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: collect a small transparent telemetry stream of bounded error and log events, run a few local dashboards, alert through one channel, and publish an honest status page.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Implement HTTP, TCP, DNS, TLS-expiry, and heartbeat checks with explicit timeout and retry policies.
Run checks from one independently hosted worker and store raw results plus incident state transitions.
Send deduplicated alerts to email or one webhook destination with recovery notifications.
Create services, maintenance windows, incidents, subscribers, and a public status page.
Add bounded event ingestion for application errors with sampling and sensitive-field scrubbing.
Provide health checks, retention settings, exports, backups, and a test-alert function.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs.
Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure.
Deliberately leave out a worldwide probe network.
Deliberately leave out phone, SMS, and managed on-call escalation.
Deliberately leave out unbounded logs, enterprise observability, and vendor-operated incident response.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

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What would building your own look like?

Collect a small transparent telemetry stream of bounded error and log events, run a few local dashboards, alert through one channel, and publish an honest status page.

What you will need

Why paying can still make sense

People still pay for New Relic because monitoring must continue working during the exact outage it reports, which makes independent infrastructure and alert delivery the real product. The recurring cost buys probe geography, clocks, retries, deduplication, sampling, storage, paging, notification delivery, on-call rules, and its own uptime, not just the visible interface.

What you lose

xlarge telemetry platform, agents, query engine, correlation, global ingestion, and support

xglobal probe network

xphone and SMS delivery

xmassive retention

xadvanced incident response and support

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Free alternatives

Prefer something ready-made?

OpenObserveA single-binary observability stack that remembers storage is not free.21kAug 2026Open source↗HyperDXLogs, traces, metrics, errors and replay in one ClickHouse-backed stack.9.8kAug 2026Open source↗CorooteBPF observability with opinions; best when your apps live in containers.7.9kAug 2026Open source↗

View all 4 alternatives to New Relic →· Licença, instalação e limitações em cada alternativa.

Plans and pricing

How much does New Relic cost?

In your currency · US DollarChecked on 10/20/2026
Monthly billing
$10/mo
Per year
$120/yr
Buy on the official site

You complete the purchase on New Relic’s site. Vibe Radar does not handle payments.

PlanMonthlyAnnual (per month)What is included
free$0/workspace$0/workspace100 GB data ingest/month; 1 full-platform user; unlimited basic users; at least 8 days data retention; 500 synthetic checks/month
standard, core user$49/user-Core observability access; unlimited basic users; Standard is limited to 5 full-platform users
standard, first full-platform user$10/user-1 discounted full-platform user; Standard supports up to 5 full-platform users
standard, additional full-platform user$99/user-Users 2–5 on Standard; full-platform access
pro, core user$49/user-Core observability access with Pro plan controls
pro, full-platform user$418.80/user$349/userFull-platform access with Pro controls and support
enterprisecustom-Custom users, ingest, support, retention and contract terms

Free tier100 GB ingest/month; 1 full-platform user; unlimited basic users; 500 synthetic checks/month; minimum 8-day retention

Billing termsFree; pay-as-you-go monthly + annual commitment options for Pro users; data ingest is usage billed

Additional costsOriginal-data ingest above 100 GB is $0.40/GB or $0.60/GB for Data Plus; EU data region adds $0.05/GB, synthetic checks above allowance are $0.005/check, and extended retention/advanced compute add separate charges

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Build or buy

Is it cheaper to build or buy New Relic?

Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.

Subscribe
Build it yourself
Horizon
Subscribe$240
Build it yourself$1,520

Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.

Starting hours estimated from the analysis (closest consolation build: one sitting). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).

Frequently asked questions
Can I rebuild New Relic?

Not really. New Relic’s value is not the code: Recheck price before merge. See the honest breakdown above.

How much does New Relic cost?

New Relic costs about $10/mo (Standard, checked 10/20/2026), which is $120 per year.

What do I lose by replacing New Relic?

Honestly: large telemetry platform, agents, query engine, correlation, global ingestion, and support; global probe network; phone and SMS delivery; massive retention; advanced incident response and support. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to New Relic?

Yes: OpenObserve (A single-binary observability stack that remembers storage is not free.) HyperDX (Logs, traces, metrics, errors and replay in one ClickHouse-backed stack.) Coroot (eBPF observability with opinions; best when your apps live in containers.) All 4 curated free alternatives are at https://viberadar.si/new-relic/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.

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