Should you build your own New Relic?
Collect a small transparent telemetry stream and run a few dashboards locally
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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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.The prompt opens pre-filled in your agent. Review it before running. · this prompt is generated from the build plan · improve it via PR
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
- server outside the monitored failure domain
- PostgreSQL
- optional ClickHouse
- email or webhook destination
- public HTTPS
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.
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
Prefer something ready-made?
View all 4 alternatives to New Relic →· Licença, instalação e limitações em cada alternativa.
How much does New Relic cost?
- Monthly billing
- $10/mo$10/mo
- Per year
- $120/yr$120/yr
- On a Brazilian card, with 3.5% IOF
- R$52.26/moR$627/yr
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| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/workspace | $0/workspace | 100 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≈ $49 | - | Core observability access; unlimited basic users; Standard is limited to 5 full-platform users |
| standard, first full-platform user | $10/user≈ $10 | - | 1 discounted full-platform user; Standard supports up to 5 full-platform users |
| standard, additional full-platform user | $99/user≈ $99 | - | Users 2–5 on Standard; full-platform access |
| pro, core user | $49/user≈ $49 | - | Core observability access with Pro plan controls |
| pro, full-platform user | $418.80/user≈ $419 | $349/user≈ $349 | Full-platform access with Pro controls and support |
| enterprise | custom | - | 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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Is it cheaper to build or buy New Relic?
Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.
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).
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.