What it does
New Relic APM is the application-performance part of New Relic’s broader observability platform. It accepts telemetry through New Relic agents or OpenTelemetry and connects application health with traces, logs, errors, and infrastructure context. The official pricing page lists a perpetual free tier alongside paid usage and user editions.
Begin with one service
Choose a New Relic agent or an OpenTelemetry path for an application, send its telemetry, and use APM to inspect response-time and error patterns. The product page describes agent and OTel ingestion, integrations, transaction context, and related infrastructure data. For a useful first investigation, follow one slow or failing request across the services that participate in it rather than enabling every data source at once.
Free tier boundaries
The pricing page lists 100 GB of monthly ingest and one full-platform user on the perpetual free tier, with unlimited basic users. Paid editions add different users and consumption options. This can make a small proof of concept inexpensive, but teams should estimate ingest and decide who needs full access before rolling it across a fleet. The specific language-agent installation page returned only site navigation in the page fetch, so this entry does not give language-specific setup commands.
Strengths
- The product supports New Relic agents and OpenTelemetry ingestion.
- APM can be used alongside trace, log, error, and infrastructure context.
- A perpetual free tier is listed with 100 GB of monthly ingest.
Watch out for
- The free tier has a 100 GB monthly ingest allowance and one full-platform user.
- Applications must send telemetry through an agent or supported integration before APM can analyze them.
Best for
- Investigating application latency and errors across instrumented services
- Evaluating an observability platform with a small application before wider rollout
Sources
- Application Monitoring | New Relic (Oct 25, 2026)
- Transparent Pricing - Start for Free | New Relic (Oct 25, 2026)
- Free-Tier Pricing | New Relic (Oct 25, 2026)