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Alternatives to New Relic Logs
22 logging tools sit alongside New Relic Logs in this directory. Below is what separates each from New Relic Logs on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 17
- Cheaper to start
- 0
- New Relic Logs starts at
- Free
Why people look past New Relic Logs
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the New Relic Logs entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
Cost climbs steeply across the tiers
New Relic Logs publishes 4 tiers, from Free up to On request. Teams that outgrow the entry plan can find the next rung a large step, the New Relic Logs pricing page breaks each one down.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Search, Observability, and Security Solutions
- No free tier, where New Relic Logs has one.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
Log Management and Analytics
- No free tier, where New Relic Logs has one.
- Starts $0.1 a per GB ingested per month dearer, at $0.1/per GB ingested per month.
- Sold on a usage-based model rather than freemium.
Observability made simple
- Starts $49 a month dearer, at $49/month.
Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
- Starts $0.42 a per GB (logs ingestion) dearer, at $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion).
- Sold on a usage-based model rather than freemium.
Monitoring for cron jobs, websites, and background tasks
- Starts $2 a monitor/month dearer, at $2/monitor/month.
- Sold on a Pay-per-monitor plus user seats model rather than freemium.
- 3 tiers to New Relic Logs's 4.
LLM reliability platform with open-source observability and evaluation
- Sold on a Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option model rather than freemium.
- 2 tiers to New Relic Logs's 4.
Every New Relic Logs alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Relic Logs (this page) | Free | Freemium | 4 | |
| Elastic StackSearch, Observability, and Security Solutions | On request | Subscription | - | vs New Relic Logs |
| Datadog LogsLog Management and Analytics | $0.1/per GB ingested per month | Usage-based | - | vs New Relic Logs |
| New RelicObservability made simple | Free, then $49/month | - | - | vs New Relic Logs |
| CoralogixContinuous Log Insights and Visibility | Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion) | Usage-based | - | vs New Relic Logs |
| Cronitor | Free, then $2/monitor/month | Pay-per-monitor plus user seats | 3 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Traceloop | Free | Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option | 2 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Openstatus | Free, then $30/month | - | 4 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Healthchecks | Free, then $5/month | Per-job monitoring with fixed tiers | 4 | vs New Relic Logs |
| incident.io | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs New Relic Logs |
| FireHydrant | Free, then $25/responder-month | Subscription | 3 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Checkly | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Filebeat | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Fluentd | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs New Relic Logs |
| ELK Stack | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Fluent Bit | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Azure Monitor | Free | Usage-based | 1 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Grafana Loki | Free | Freemium | - | vs New Relic Logs |
| Better Stack | Free, then $25/month | Freemium | 5 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Dynatrace Logs | Free | Subscription | 1 | vs New Relic Logs |
| Uptime.com | On request | Subscription | - | vs New Relic Logs |
| Rootly | $20/user-month | Subscription | 4 | vs New Relic Logs |
| AppDynamics | $6/month | Subscription | 3 | vs New Relic Logs |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the New Relic Logs badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (17)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- New Relic , Free, then $49/month
- Coralogix , Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion)
- Cronitor , Free, then $2/monitor/month
- Traceloop , Free
- Openstatus , Free, then $30/month
- Healthchecks , Free, then $5/month
- incident.io , Free
- FireHydrant , Free, then $25/responder-month
What you would be giving up
New Relic Logs is most often brought in for centralised log management alongside metrics and traces, searching and alerting on application logs in context with performance data. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If New Relic Logs is broadly right and the question is cost, the New Relic Logs pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Logging category lists everything the directory holds, and best logging tools ranks them.
New Relic Logs runs on web, api. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about New Relic Logs alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to New Relic Logs?
- 22 other logging tools are listed in this directory, led by Elastic Stack, Datadog Logs, New Relic, Coralogix. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to New Relic Logs?
- 17 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: New Relic, Coralogix, Cronitor, Traceloop, Openstatus.
- Why do people look for an alternative to New Relic Logs?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: cost climbs steeply across the tiers. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from New Relic Logs?
- New Relic Logs is most often brought in for centralised log management alongside metrics and traces, searching and alerting on application logs in context with performance data. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to New Relic Logs?
- Filebeat, Fluentd, ELK Stack, Fluent Bit are recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these New Relic Logs alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Logging, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare New Relic Logs against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against New Relic Logs covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every logging tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Logging category, 22 tools beside New Relic Logs. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.