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Self-host New Relic
APM / observability platform ·
Category: observability & analytics
New Relic is a hosted observability suite — APM traces, infrastructure metrics, logs, browser RUM, synthetics — billed per ingested GB. The self-hostable replacements all align around OpenTelemetry: ship OTLP from your apps to one of these backends, get traces + metrics + logs in one UI without per-GB pricing.
New Relic pricing anchor: Free 100GB/mo + 1 user; Standard $0.30/GB ingested; Enterprise from $0.50/GB.
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- ★ 26.9k · last commit 1d ago · 1531 open issues
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MIT Core is MIT; some Enterprise features (SSO, RBAC) are gated.
- Setup time
- 30min docker-compose (SigNoz + ClickHouse + Zookeeper + OTel collector)
- Monthly cost
- $30-60/mo VPS for production traffic — ClickHouse + collector are the compute load.
Migration sketch. Use the official compose at signoz.io/docs/install/docker. Repoint your apps' OTLP exporter from the New Relic OTLP endpoint to your SigNoz collector (`OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://signoz.example.com:4318`). Traces, metrics, and logs all show up under one app namespace; SigNoz's UI is the closest spiritual match to New Relic APM with services view, error tracking, and SLO dashboards.
Good fit forTeams running OpenTelemetry-instrumented apps that want a single product (not Grafana + Tempo + Loki + Mimir glued together).
Weak atSynthetic monitoring and browser RUM are thinner than New Relic's; bring Uptime Kuma + a separate RUM tool.
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- ★ 18.8k · last commit today · 544 open issues
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AGPL-3.0 - Setup time
- 15min single-binary or docker run
- Monthly cost
- $15-40/mo VPS; storage backed by S3-compatible object storage keeps cost predictable.
Migration sketch. Run `docker run -d -v $HOME/openobserve:/data -p 5080:5080 -e ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL=admin@example.com -e ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORD=admin public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest`. Point OTLP from your apps at the OpenObserve collector endpoint; logs, traces, metrics ingest through the same OTel pipeline. UI focuses on log search + trace correlation; Lucene-style query language.
Good fit forLog-heavy stacks moving off Datadog/New Relic that want predictable S3-backed storage costs.
Weak atAPM/services view is less polished than SigNoz's; better at logs than at deep distributed-trace exploration.
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- ★ 73.7k · last commit 1d ago · 3663 open issues
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AGPL-3.0 Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir all moved to AGPL-3.0 in 2021; Enterprise versions remain commercial.
- Setup time
- 1h docker-compose for the full LGTM stack
- Monthly cost
- $30-100/mo VPS depending on retention; S3-backed for traces and logs.
Migration sketch. Use the `docker-otel-lgtm` reference stack from grafana.com/blog. Apps export OTLP to Grafana Alloy (the collector); Alloy fans out traces to Tempo, logs to Loki, metrics to Mimir. Build dashboards in Grafana — the New Relic NRQL queries don't port, but standard PromQL + LogQL + TraceQL gets you to similar visualizations.
Good fit forTeams that already have Grafana expertise and want best-of-breed components rather than a single product.
Weak atOperational complexity — four components to run instead of one; gluing dashboards takes a week vs SigNoz's defaults.
In a terminal? npx os-alt new-relic prints this table —
how the CLI works →