New Relic vs ZenML
Side-by-side comparison to help you choose the best tool.
New Relic
freemiumNew Relic is a full-stack observability platform offering APM, infrastructure monitoring, browser monitoring, and AI data through its New Relic AI assistant. Its 2023 pricing shift to a consumption model with a free tier made it significantly more accessible. New Relic AI allows engineers to ask natural language questions about their system health and get guided answers from their telemetry data.
ZenML
freemiumZenML is an open-source MLOps system for building portable, production-ready ML pipelines that run on any cloud or infrastructure. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity, allowing teams to write ML pipelines once and deploy them to Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, or any other orchestrator. ZenML provides a standardised way to build reproducible, maintainable ML workflows.
| Feature | New Relic | ZenML |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Category | - | - |
| Rating | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| Best For | Engineering teams wanting full-stack observability with an AI assistant at a lower entry price than Datadog or Dynatrace | ML teams who need portable pipelines that work across different cloud environments |
| Views | 6 | 5 |
Pros
- Most accessible pricing in enterprise APM
- New Relic AI makes telemetry accessible to non-experts
- Single platform replacing multiple tools
Cons
- Can get expensive above free tier data limits
- AI features still maturing versus Dynatrace Davis
Pros
- True portability across cloud providers
- Strong integration ecosystem
- Good developer experience
Cons
- Abstraction layer adds complexity
- Smaller community than MLflow
- New Relic AI natural language interface
- Full-stack APM & infrastructure monitoring
- Log management & analytics
- Browser & mobile monitoring
- Generous free tier (100GB/month)
- Cloud-agnostic pipelines
- Stack abstraction
- Pipeline versioning
- Integration with 50+ MLOps tools
- Role-based access control