Instabug vs New Relic for App Performance Monitoring

In this post, we will take a look at two of the top APM tools out there, Instabug vs New Relic. These tools can help you monitor not only your app’s crashes but also errors, network requests, battery consumption, and more.

Similarities between Instabug vs New Relic

Network calls play a huge role in the speed and responsiveness of your app. Usually, network performance is tracked on the server-side. And while that is important it only tells half of the story. Both Instabug and New Relic let you track client-side network calls. You will be able to get a drill-down look at network performance and track HTTP requests by their response times, errors, and more.

The worst-case scenario for any app is encountering a session ending crash. Both Instabug and New Relic help you stay ahead of negative reviews with detailed crash reporting. With both, you can assess the stack-trace information that leads up to the crash to help narrow down fixes. You can also set up alerts to stay up to date with any new critical issues.

To help narrow down investigations and get a sense of how your app is performing a lot of details are available for every user. You can filter reports based on OS version, App version, and device.

Instabug’s strengths

Mobile-first

While New Relic is built with backend and devops teams in mind, Instabug optimizes for mobile developers and mobile engineering managers. Instabug detects all critical issues affecting your users, whether it is a crash, slow network call, slow transition, or UI hang.

With strong mobile experience, Instabug’s APM goes a lot deeper. App launch time monitoring helps you set a good first impression which is key with mobile users. You will also be able to track UI hangs and make sure users aren’t frustrated with your app. Custom app trace monitoring also provides a lot of flexibility with tracking the performance of specific logic and code traces.

Instabug’s Crash Reporting also offers a lot more. Repro steps help you easily reproduce an error with the detailed step-by-step interactions a user took with the app. The session profiler helps you assess relevant device details like memory and CPU usage leading up to a crash.

Get actionable insights faster

App performance can be difficult to understand when assessing many granular metrics. Determining whether or not precious engineering resources need to be devoted to improve performance is one of the biggest challenges mobile teams face. Instabug’s apdex score helps you do just that. With one tell-all score that encompasses app, network, and UI performance as well as app stability, you can make actionable decisions faster. The app apdex score will tell you right on the dashboard whether your users are seeing a satisfying, tolerating, or frustrating experience.

The full suite of products

Instabug’s biggest strength comes from the platform as a whole. APM and Crash Reporting will give you strong insights into the user’s experience, but you can take a step further. With a best-in-class Bug Reporting solution, Instabug empowers you to get the whole picture with user feedback. In-App Surveys will also help you gauge users’ experience with popular survey formats like NPS and App Rating, as well as custom surveys.

Feature comparison table

Why mobile-first companies choose Instabug vs New Relic for mobile app performance monitoring

	Instabug	New Relic
Basic Crashes & Handled Errors	√	√
Network Performance Monitoring	√	√
Release Stability Dashboard	√	X
App Apdex Score	√	X
App Launch Time Monitoring	√	X
UI Hang Detection	√	X
Custom App Traces Monitoring	√	X
Repro Steps, Network Logs, Memory, and CPU Consumption	√	X
Third-Party Integrations: Jira, Slack, GitHub, and more	√	X
Bug Reporting and Feedback	√	X
Targeted Surveys and NPS	√	X
App Rating	√	X