Open-source alternative
Replace New Relic with SigNoz
The best open-source alternative to New Relic is SigNoz, self-hosted on Railway. Logs, metrics, and traces you host. SigNoz is the OpenTelemetry-native APM — New Relic without the user-and-ingest meter.
Estimated save $12,000 a year.
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How New Relic compares
| New Relic | SigNoz | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Users + data ingest (or compute) | Open-source or fair-code license; you pay the host |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud | Self-hosted on Railway or any VPS |
| Rough monthly cost | Standard: first full platform user $10/mo, then $99/user; data $0.40/GB after 100 GB source | Hosting only — no SaaS seat meter in this repo |
- SigNoz
Open-source OpenTelemetry APM (logs, metrics, traces)
FAQ
- Is it free?
- The SigNoz licenses are open source or fair-code. You still pay hosting (Railway or any VPS) and any APIs the stack calls. There is no New Relic seat or task bill on this path.
- Can I migrate from New Relic?
- Yes. Start with the workflows or data you actually use, then cut over. The SigNoz stack page has the agent prompt and the cost table; most teams rebuild the slice that matters and leave old New Relic links until they expire.
- How do I deploy it?
- Open the SigNoz stack, copy the agent prompt, and deploy on Railway (one service, PORT, and a volume when the app needs disk). Placeholder: SigNoz is a multi-service stack (query, collector, ClickHouse). Second-wave template after Grafana-only. Datadog's /replace/datadog page stays on Grafana + Checkcle.
- What does this replace?
- New Relic. The published small-team estimate on this stack is $12,000 a year.
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