Open Source Alternatives

Alternatives to New Relic

Application performance monitoring and observability.

1 drop-in replacement9 building blocks
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Updated Apr 2026

Drop-in Replacements

Ranked by Discovery Score

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SigNoz

2870% coverage

OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, traces, and metrics

SigNoz gives you performance traces, error rates, and system metrics in one dashboard. It's built on OpenTelemetry (the open standard for collecting observability data), which means you're not locked into a proprietary SDK.

26.4k ★+89/wkTypeScriptMIT + Enterprise

Building Blocks

New Relic is a platform — it bundles multiple capabilities into one subscription. These tools each cover one piece. Teams often assemble 2–3 of them instead of paying for the full suite.

Uptrace

26covers: traces + metrics50%

Open source APM with OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

Zipkin

21covers: tracing35%

Distributed tracing system

OpenTelemetry Collector

17covers: instrumentation40%

Vendor-agnostic telemetry collection

SkyWalking

15covers: apm + tracing50%

APM and monitoring system

Prometheus

14covers: metrics + alerting40%

Monitoring system and time series database

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Loki

13covers: logs40%

Horizontally-scalable, multi-tenant log aggregation

Jaeger

12covers: tracing35%

CNCF distributed tracing platform

opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler

12covers: continuous profiling30%

The production-scale datacenter profiler (C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ...)

Netdata

11covers: infra metrics45%

Real-time performance and health monitoring

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