Comparison · vs New Relic
New Relic DBM, sin el sobresalto de la factura a fin de mes.
Precio plano por DB, sin sorpresas de GB ingresados. Misma correlación APM vía tags service:, más bandas de pronóstico ausentes del modo anomalía de NR.
01. Why teams move
What teams say in the first call.
- DBM is a side feature of New Relic APM, not the main product.
- Ingest-based pricing surprises teams when query volume spikes.
- No BYOC / sovereign — SaaS only.
- Plan-history and lock-chain reconstruction are limited compared to purpose-built DBM.
- Anomaly detection lives in NRQL alerts, not as default forecast bands.
02. Honest take
What New Relic is genuinely good at.
We’re not interested in trash-talk. Here’s where New Relic is the right call — useful even if you end up choosing Obsfly, because keeping New Relic for some workloads can make sense.
- + Truly excellent APM with deep transaction tracing.
- + Strong distributed tracing across services + DB.
- + Generous free tier for non-DB observability.
- + NRQL is genuinely powerful query language for custom dashboards.
03. Side by side
Obsfly vs New Relic, line by line.
04. The math
Pricing snapshot.
Public list pricing where known; “contact sales” where not. Real bills are usually within 20% of these figures.
05. Switching
How teams actually switch.
Keep New Relic for APM
Most customers keep New Relic for application traces and pair us specifically for database performance. Tracing IDs flow through; we annotate slow queries with trace context.
Predictable bills
Move from ingest-priced to per-DB-priced. Spikes in query volume don't spike your bill anymore.
Drop the ingest cap fights
If you've been pruning DB query telemetry to fit ingest budget, that limit goes away. We retain everything at flat cost.
06. FAQ
Common questions.
Can we keep New Relic APM and add Obsfly?+
Most customers do. Trace IDs propagate; we annotate the slow queries we surface with the relevant New Relic trace links so you jump from a slow query to its full trace context in one click.
Does Obsfly support APM-style transaction tracing?+
Not directly — that's New Relic's strength and we don't compete there. Our scope is the database surface. We integrate with whatever APM you run.
Where it shows up
Obsfly for the databases you run.
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Deep dives
Reading you might want before the call.
Pricing
We added up Datadog DBM at 50 databases. Here's the bill.
A line-by-line walkthrough of what 50 Postgres + 12 MySQL + 8 Mongo databases actually cost on Datadog DBM in 2026, with ways to reduce it that don't involve switching tools.
AI
Anomaly detection on database metrics: why thresholds fail and what works
A walk through forecast bands, change-point detection, multi-variate anomaly, and the seasonality math that makes 'p99 over 200ms' the wrong alert by default — with the Postgres example that broke our last threshold.
BYOC
Why regulated SaaS can't use Datadog DBM — and the BYOC fix
Walking through the architecture of a BYOC observability deployment: where data lives, what crosses the boundary, and how to satisfy SOC2 / HIPAA / GDPR without giving up the UX.
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See it on your stack.
20-min comparison demo. Bring real queries from your New Relic setup; we'll reproduce them in Obsfly live.