> I agree, New Relic's pricing model is almost too "enterprise". That was also my conclusion, if you look at the list of companies that uses them you will get

> I agree, New Relic's pricing model is almost too "enterprise". That was also my conclusion, if you look at the list of companies that uses them you will get a list of some very big businesses. And they can probably afford it, which is good for NewRelic. > I know there's plenty of ways to replicate New Relic, but who has the time? You could probably use their software, and build a collector for the data, but that doesn't really solve the issue of not building an alternative service. Yehuda Katz have built Skylight (https://www.skylight.io/ https://www.skylight.io/) for Ruby performance metrics and they do charge for the number of requests, the platform isn't there yet, but they are improving a lot. Their newsletters are a good read :-)