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New Relic is a comprehensive, all-in-one observability platform spanning APM, infrastructure, logs, browser monitoring, synthetics and mobile.
Measure is a mobile first, open source New Relic alternative.
Full session context on every issue
With New Relic you get the stack trace plus breadcrumbs and interaction traces, and optionally Mobile Session Replay. But mobile replay is sampled, and the events each session sends are capped per harvest, so you record a subset of sessions, not all of them.
Measure attaches a full Session Timeline with gestures, navigation, network calls, lifecycle events and custom spans to every crash, ANR and error and you only pay for the data used as a whole.
You see exactly what the user did and what the app did, on every issue, without relying on a sampler to have kept the session you need. No more ending with a production issue with no visibility because the session context got sampled out.
Adaptive capture, not fixed sampling
New Relic's Mobile Session Replay relies on sampling to decide which sessions to keep, and the agent's event pool is capped per harvest cycle, so once the cap is hit it starts discarding events. Some of these are server controlled but changing other sample rates means shipping an app update with new SDK settings.
Measure captures full session context by default, and with Adaptive Capture you tune what you collect remotely, without shipping an app update.
Dial up on new releases or when chasing tricky production issues, dial down whenever you need to. Measure puts you in control.
Fully open source
New Relic open sources its mobile agents but the backend and dashboard are a proprietary SaaS and there is no self-host option. You can read the agent, but you can't see or run the platform that ingests and stores your data.
Measure is fully open source. Read it, run it, self-host it, audit the pipeline and if you think something can be done better, send a pull request.
Simple, predictable pricing
New Relic charges on two axes at once: per-gigabyte data ingest and per-user seats. This means adding teammates and ingesting more data both push the bill up.
Measure has a single, transparent price based on how much data you use. No per-seat fees, no separate product meters. With Adaptive Capture you can dial collection up or down without rolling out app updates to control your costs even better.
Built for mobile, by mobile devs
New Relic monitors infrastructure, APM, logs, browser, synthetics, security and more across one sprawling platform, so mobile is one small corner of it. Mobile is one workload among many, and the defaults, dashboards and roadmap are shaped by the whole platform rather than by mobile alone.
Measure is built only for mobile. Crashes & ANRs, App Health, Performance Traces, Network Performance, Bug Reports and User Journeys are all designed around how mobile apps actually break in production.
Mobile is not a part of our product, it is the whole product.
Measure vs New Relic
| Capability | Measure | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Crash reporting with full session timelines | Crash reports, replays sampled | |
| ANR detection with full session timelines | ANRs, replays sampled | |
| Performance traces | ||
| Network monitoring | ||
| User journeys | ||
| In-app bug reports | ||
| Session timeline on every issue | Session replay, sampled | |
| Dynamic Sampling with Adaptive Capture | Sampled, partial remote control | |
| Auto-captured context | Gestures, navigation, network, lifecycle | Interactions, network, handled exceptions, breadcrumbs |
| Pricing | Simple pricing based on data usage | Per-GB data ingest plus per-user seats |
| Open Source | Apache 2.0 (OSI open source) | SDKs only |
| Self-hostable | ||
| Public roadmap & issue tracker | SDK repos only | |
| Mobile focus | One small part of a huge platform |