AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring vs New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring

AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring8.9Visit New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring8.8Visit

Higher score AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring #3 in Kubernetes Monitoring 8.9/10 30-day trial Free trial✓ 0 of 4 features Visit AppDynamics

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New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring #4 in Kubernetes Monitoring 8.8/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 0 of 4 features Visit New Relic

• AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring fits best

  Enterprise Kubernetes and OpenShift health monitoring

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring fits best

  Teams wanting Kubernetes telemetry with a free entry tier

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Side by side

Feature	AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring 8.9/10 Visit ↗	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring 8.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.8
Ranking	#3 in Kubernetes Monitoring	#4 in Kubernetes Monitoring
Best for	Enterprise Kubernetes and OpenShift health monitoring	Teams wanting Kubernetes telemetry with a free entry tier
Pricing model	Paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	—	$10/user/mo
Free plan	—	✓ (best)
Free trial	30 days	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web, Linux	Web
Support	Tickets, Community, Docs	Tickets, Community, Docs
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring 0/4 · New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring 0/4
Control-plane monitoring	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Kubernetes logs	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Distributed tracing	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Managed Kubernetes support	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Alerting channels	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Data retention	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Monitors clusters, pods, workloads, nodes, namespaces, and events Tracks container resources against configured requests and limits Detects failures, restarts, image problems, and missing dependencies	Correlates Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces Free plan includes 100 GB of monthly data ingest Ingests Prometheus and OpenTelemetry telemetry
Cons	Paid product with no free plan Log collection is limited to failed or restarted pods Advanced SAP, experience, and security monitoring use separate editions	Standard limits full platform access to five users Standard and Pro charge per user, with data ingest overages Kubernetes Monitoring is part of a broader observability platform
Our verdict	AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring is a paid monitoring product for application operations, DevOps, and SRE teams running containerized applications. It uses the AppDynamics Cluster Agent to monitor Kubernetes and OpenShift environments,… Read the review →	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring brings cluster, workload, container, and application telemetry into New Relic’s observability platform. It is aimed at engineering, DevOps, and platform teams operating Kubernetes environments, including… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring — where it wins

  • Monitors clusters, pods, workloads, nodes, namespaces, and events
  • Tracks container resources against configured requests and limits
  • Detects failures, restarts, image problems, and missing dependencies

  Where it doesn't

  • Paid product with no free plan
  • Log collection is limited to failed or restarted pods
  • Advanced SAP, experience, and security monitoring use separate editions

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring — where it wins

  • Correlates Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces
  • Free plan includes 100 GB of monthly data ingest
  • Ingests Prometheus and OpenTelemetry telemetry

  Where it doesn't

  • Standard limits full platform access to five users
  • Standard and Pro charge per user, with data ingest overages
  • Kubernetes Monitoring is part of a broader observability platform

• AppDynamics Kubernetes Monitoring8.9/10 · 30-day trial

  A broad Kubernetes and OpenShift monitoring suite for enterprise operations teams.

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• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring8.8/10 · Free plan

  Kubernetes telemetry spans metrics, events, logs, and traces, with a free entry tier.

  Visit New RelicFull verdict →