New Relic Burning Your Budget? Meet SigLens

If you’ve ever found yourself waiting on a query to load or dreading the next invoice from your observability provider, you’re not alone. For many engineering teams, New Relic started off as a powerful ally but over time, the cracks began to show. Performance bottlenecks, Vendor lock-ins, Increasing costs, Complex configurations, and that creeping feeling that your observability tool might be doing more harm than good.

This is where SigLens steps in a new observability engine built from the ground up to handle scale, speed, and cost-efficiency without the complexity.

The Growing Pain: New Relic's Hidden Trade-Offs

On paper, New Relic offers a robust platform with attractive dashboards and a wide array of features. But as your infrastructure scales, the platform’s limitations start to surface:

Performance drops during high-volume ingestion windows.
Longer query latency when debugging across massive datasets.
Complex setup and tuning, requiring constant optimization.
Escalating costs, especially when dealing with high-cardinality logs.

It’s not that New Relic doesn’t work but for many teams, it’s simply not keeping up with the demands of real-time, cost-sensitive engineering workflows.

Introducing SigLens: Built for Real-Time Scale and Simplicity

At SigLens, we asked a simple question: What if observability didn’t have to be a trade-off between performance, usability, and cost?

The result is a stream-first architecture designed for real-time analytics at scale without the tuning, without the bloated bills, and without the engineering overhead.

⚡ Speed that Redefines Observability

SigLens delivers sub-second search speeds, even across billions of log entries. There’s no need to pre-index or warm up queries. You get answers instantly, whether you’re investigating an outage or digging into deployment issues.

💸 Cost-Efficiency That Scales

Our pricing is transparent, scalable, and dramatically more affordable, up to 80% lower compared to legacy platforms like New Relic. No hidden ingestion fees. No inflated retention costs. And while New Relic charges per active user (which adds up fast), even teams with low data volume can see invoices skyrocket with just 20+ users.

🧘 Built for Engineers, Not Just Analysts

From CLI to UI, SigLens is designed to integrate smoothly into your workflow. It’s schema-less, easy to deploy, and doesn’t require weeks of configuration or tuning to get started.

Head-to-Head: SigLens vs. New Relic

Real-World Impact: What Engineers Are Saying

One of our users, a DevOps lead at a cloud-native startup, switched from New Relic to SigLens after multiple incidents where query latency during outages made diagnosis impossible. With SigLens, they now run real-time queries across months of logs instantly with 80% cost savings to match.

Migration? Easier Than You Think

Moving to SigLens doesn’t mean starting from scratch. We support common ingestion tools like Fluentd and Logstash, integrate with Grafana, and offer white-glove onboarding to help you hit the ground running.

The Bottom Line: Why Stay Stuck?

New Relic was a great tool for yesterday’s observability problems. But if you’re looking for real-time answers, cost-effective scale, and a platform that grows with you, it’s time to consider what’s next.

SigLens is not just an alternative, it’s the future of observability.

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