A Simpler Alternative to New Relic
New Relic's "free forever" tier runs out fast, and per-GB data ingest plus $549/user/month seat pricing makes costs unpredictable. Bleemeo offers straightforward per-agent pricing — no data ingest surprises, no per-seat charges, no GB calculations.
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Real-time dashboards, ready in minutes — no configuration needed
Common New Relic Challenges
Data Ingest Billing
New Relic charges per GB of data ingested beyond the free 100GB/month tier. The more servers, containers, and services you monitor, the more telemetry data flows in — and costs escalate unpredictably. Teams frequently report monthly bills doubling or tripling after adding a new cluster or enabling distributed tracing across their microservices.
Complexity Overload
New Relic bundles over 30 products into its full-stack observability platform — APM, browser monitoring, synthetic monitors, mobile monitoring, serverless, and more. Most infrastructure teams only need server and container monitoring, yet they end up paying for feature sprawl they will never touch. This bundled approach inflates costs and adds unnecessary complexity to the user interface.
Query-Based Pricing
Every NRQL query you run against your telemetry data counts toward your compute usage limits. This means that simply building dashboards, investigating incidents, or running ad-hoc analyses can drive up your bill in ways that are difficult to forecast. Teams often hesitate to explore their own data because every query has a hidden cost attached to it.
Steep Learning Curve
NRQL is a proprietary query language that your team must learn from scratch before they can build useful dashboards or set up meaningful alerts. Combined with New Relic's complex data model — entities, relationships, attributes, and events — it takes weeks of training before new team members can be productive. This investment in vendor-specific knowledge does not transfer to other tools.
New Relic vs Bleemeo
| Feature | New Relic | Bleemeo |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing Model | Per-GB data ingest + per-seat user fees | Simple per-agent pricing |
| Cost Predictability | Varies monthly with data volume and queries | Fixed monthly cost per server |
| Setup Time | Agent install + manual instrumentation + YAML config | Single command install with full auto-discovery |
| Infrastructure Monitoring | Comprehensive | Comprehensive |
| Service Discovery | Manual instrumentation and tagging required | Automatic detection of 100+ services, zero config |
| Dashboards | Must build manually using NRQL queries | Pre-built dashboards, auto-activated per service |
| Data Retention | 8 days to 13 months depending on plan tier | 13 months at full resolution, all plans |
| Alerting | AI-powered | ML-based anomaly detection |
| Container/K8s | Full support | Native integration |
| Agent | Proprietary | Open source (Glouton) |
| Prometheus Compatibility | OpenTelemetry collector support | Native Prometheus exporter scraping and PromQL-compatible metrics |
| User Seat Pricing | $549/user/month on Pro plan | Unlimited users included |
| Query Language | Proprietary NRQL to learn | Standard PromQL support |
Real Cost Comparison
For a typical 100-host infrastructure with 5 team members generating ~500GB/month of telemetry data
New Relic
*Costs increase unpredictably with data volume growth and additional team members
Bleemeo
*With 1-year reservation. Logs billed separately at 0.50€/GiB.
Why Teams Choose Bleemeo
Predictable Costs
Per-agent pricing means your bill scales linearly with your infrastructure, not your data volume. Unlike New Relic where adding a busy microservice can spike your ingest costs overnight, Bleemeo charges a flat rate per monitored server. You always know exactly what next month's bill will be, making budgeting straightforward.
Instant Value
Auto-discovery means dashboards and alerts are ready within minutes of installing the agent, not days of writing NRQL queries and configuring instrumentation. Bleemeo automatically detects your running services — databases, web servers, message queues — and activates the right dashboards and alert thresholds without any manual configuration.
No Query Limits
Monitor, query, and alert as much as you need without worrying about usage-based billing on data access. With New Relic, every NRQL query and dashboard refresh consumes compute capacity units that add to your bill. With Bleemeo, your team can investigate incidents and explore metrics freely without cost anxiety.
Open Source Agent
Glouton, our monitoring agent, is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You can inspect every line of code running on your servers, audit it for security, and even contribute improvements. Unlike New Relic's proprietary agent, there is no vendor lock-in — your data collection layer remains transparent and under your control.
European Data Residency
All monitoring data is stored and processed in European data centers, ensuring full GDPR compliance without extra configuration or contractual add-ons. For organizations with strict data sovereignty requirements, this eliminates the complexity of negotiating data processing agreements with US-based vendors like New Relic.
Personal Support
Talk directly to the engineers who build and maintain the platform, not outsourced support agents or chatbots. Every Bleemeo customer gets access to our technical team who understand your infrastructure and can help resolve issues quickly. No tiered support plans, no paying extra for faster response times.
Feature Parity Where It Matters
Infrastructure Monitoring
Full system metrics collection including CPU, memory, disk I/O, network traffic, and swap usage. Automatic service discovery identifies and monitors over 100 services out of the box — from MySQL and PostgreSQL to Redis, Nginx, Apache, and RabbitMQ — all without writing a single line of configuration.
Container & Kubernetes
Native Docker and Kubernetes monitoring that automatically detects containers, pods, deployments, and services. Get per-container resource metrics, pod restart tracking, and cluster-level health views without deploying complex DaemonSets or configuring custom Helm charts.
Log Management
Centralized log collection, indexing, and full-text search at a transparent 0.50€/GiB rate. Unlike New Relic's log management where costs are buried inside your data ingest quota, Bleemeo keeps log pricing separate and predictable. No complex log pipelines or parsing rules to configure — start searching your logs immediately.
Smart Alerting
Intelligent alerting with pre-configured thresholds based on industry best practices, plus machine learning anomaly detection that adapts to your infrastructure's normal behavior. Notify your team through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, webhooks, or any custom integration — all included in every plan.
Real-time Dashboards
Pre-built, production-ready dashboards that activate automatically for every discovered service on your infrastructure. Unlike New Relic where you must craft each dashboard from scratch using NRQL, Bleemeo gives you immediate visibility. Need something custom? Our dashboard builder lets you create tailored views without learning a proprietary query language.
Mobile Apps
Full-featured iOS and Android mobile applications with real-time push notifications for critical alerts. Check dashboards, acknowledge incidents, and monitor your infrastructure health from anywhere — whether you are on call, commuting, or away from your desk. Available on all plans at no additional cost.
Migrating from New Relic
Switching from New Relic to Bleemeo is straightforward because there is no complex instrumentation to replicate. Most teams run both systems in parallel for a week to validate coverage before fully switching. Our engineering team can help with migration planning and ensure a smooth transition.
Deploy Bleemeo Agents
Install the Glouton agent on each server with a single command. No complex instrumentation libraries, no language-specific SDKs, no YAML configuration files to write. The agent starts collecting system and service metrics immediately after installation.
wget -qO- 'https://get.bleemeo.com?accountId=...' | sudo bashVerify Auto-Discovery
Log into the Bleemeo dashboard and verify that your running services — databases, web servers, caches, message brokers — have been automatically detected and are reporting metrics. Unlike New Relic, there is no manual instrumentation step required for infrastructure monitoring.
Review Pre-built Dashboards
Compare the automatically generated Bleemeo dashboards with the ones you built manually in New Relic using NRQL. You will find that most infrastructure views — CPU, memory, disk, network, and per-service metrics — are already available out of the box without writing a single query.
Configure Alert Channels
Connect your existing notification channels — Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, email, or custom webhooks. Bleemeo comes with sensible default alert thresholds already active, so you are protected from the moment the agent starts reporting. Fine-tune thresholds later based on your specific requirements.
Validate Coverage
Run Bleemeo alongside New Relic for one to two weeks to ensure complete coverage. Compare alert accuracy, dashboard completeness, and metric availability between both platforms. This parallel period gives your team confidence that nothing is missed before cutting over.
Switch & Save
Uninstall the New Relic agents from your servers and cancel your subscription. From this point forward, enjoy predictable per-agent billing with no data ingest overages, no per-seat user fees, and no surprises on your monthly invoice. Most teams see cost reductions of 60-80% compared to their New Relic bill.
What Our Customers Say
Engineers and CTOs trust Bleemeo to monitor their infrastructure
During a short lunch break we installed Bleemeo, created a custom metric, tested alerts, and were ready for production. The speed of deployment is remarkable.
Bleemeo support is simply legendary — fast, knowledgeable, and always there when we need it.
Bleemeo was incredibly fast to deploy. In about an hour we rolled it out across more than 100 servers and immediately gained full visibility into our infrastructure.
We set up monitoring for all our servers in just a few hours. The dashboard is clear, powerful, and genuinely enjoyable to use.
We deployed Bleemeo across our server infrastructure in only a few hours. Uptime monitoring now alerts us instantly whenever a service encounters an issue.
Our Prometheus + Grafana stack had become a maintenance project. With Bleemeo we deployed the agent in minutes and finally focused on using monitoring instead of maintaining it.
After installing the agent, Bleemeo automatically discovered our databases, containers, and services. Within an hour we had full infrastructure visibility — no dashboards or exporters to build.
Bleemeo replaced several monitoring tools with a single platform. Metrics, alerts, and logs are now in one place, saving our team significant time.
Bleemeo gave us immediate insight into our infrastructure without the usual complexity. Within a couple of hours we had metrics, alerts, and dashboards running smoothly.
Setting up Bleemeo was refreshingly simple. The agent deployment took minutes and the automatic discovery saved us days of configuration.
Thanks to Bleemeo, our team now detects issues before our users notice them. The alerting is reliable and the interface makes troubleshooting much faster.
Moving to Bleemeo simplified our monitoring stack dramatically. Instead of managing multiple tools, everything we need is available in a single platform.
Centralizing our logs in Bleemeo drastically simplified troubleshooting. Instead of jumping between tools, we can now correlate metrics and logs instantly to understand what's happening.
Bleemeo made Kubernetes monitoring surprisingly easy. Within minutes we had visibility into our clusters, pods, and workloads without having to build complex dashboards ourselves.
See Bleemeo in action
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Frequently asked questions
How does Bleemeo pricing compare to New Relic?
Bleemeo charges per agent (10.99€/month per server), not per GB of data or per user seat. No data ingest limits, no query charges, no per-seat fees.
Can Bleemeo replace New Relic for infrastructure monitoring?
Yes. Bleemeo covers infrastructure metrics, log management, uptime monitoring, dashboards, and alerting with ML anomaly detection. If you primarily use New Relic for infrastructure, Bleemeo is a direct replacement at a fraction of the cost.
Do I need to learn a query language like NRQL?
No. Bleemeo's dashboards are pre-built and auto-activated for every discovered service. No query language required for day-to-day monitoring.
How many users can access Bleemeo?
Unlimited. There are no per-user or per-seat charges. Your entire team can access dashboards, alerts, and logs at no extra cost.
Does Bleemeo support containers and Kubernetes?
Yes. Native Docker and Kubernetes monitoring with automatic pod, service, and node discovery. No additional instrumentation or agent configuration needed.
What about log management?
Bleemeo includes centralized log collection at 0.50€/GiB ingested. Unlike New Relic where log data counts toward your ingest quota, Bleemeo's log pricing is separate and predictable.
Is there a free tier?
Yes. Bleemeo offers a free tier to monitor up to 3 servers with no time limit. No data ingest caps, no user seat restrictions.
Where is data stored?
Bleemeo infrastructure is hosted in Europe with GDPR compliance built in. All metrics and logs stay in EU data centers.
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