New Relic: Affordable Log Monitoring

Coming from a security background, I am used to logging everything for investigations and audits within a SIEM. The only problem is that many solutions out there are very expensive for a small business. I have used New Relic in the past as a logging solution, and I have had good experience with the product itself and with support when I have needed them.

You might ask why should I give New Relic a try?

Lets start with a few bullet points, and perhaps expand a little one them if needed.

• You can start for free and see if the tool meets your needs
• The integrations with New Relic are fairly extensive and easy to configure
• They have good documentation
• 500+ integrations

• 100GB of data ingest per month
• Unlimited basic users
• 1 full platform user
• 500 synthetic checks per month

• You don’t have the option for Data Plus
• No HIPAA or FedRAMP compliance
• You get a max of 5 Full platform users at a cost of $99/month
• No SAML SSO
• No automated user management
• Support is very limited, you basically have the community forum

You can pay for additional storage once you get tot he 100GB limit each month, the price is $0.30/GB, if you need data for 90+ days then the Data Plus feature is what you are looking for but comes with a 0.50/GB price tag.

While you can get the same list here I will go ahead and list them out.

• Basic User – Unlimited, free
  • Customer charts and dashboards
  • Unlimited queries
  • Data integrations, APIs, and agents
  • Receive alerts and notifications
  • Search/view logs
• Core User – $49/month (everything basic user has with addition of…)
  • New Relic CodeStreamd integration
  • Errors Inbox
  • Advanced logs capabilities
  • Build & run custom New Relic One Apps
• Full Platform User – $99/month (everything core user has with addition of…)
  • Application performance monitoring (APM)
  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Kubernetes
  • Distributed Tracing
  • Networking Performance monitoring
  • Browser & Mobile monitoring
  • Synthetics monitoring
  • New Relic I/O
  • Serverless monitoring
  • Alerts and AIOps
  • Service/entity maps

I think this article covers most of the items that might be of interest to someone looking into getting started with them. I would also like to note that I get nothing from this article, I am not trying to get you to use New Relic because I am paid by them in any way. Furthermore, I will most likely be doing another article in the near future on other solutions.