New Relic vs Uptime Kuma

New Relic APM-first observability. Synthetics and alerts exist inside a platform built for application performance. Uptime Kuma The open-source Docker monitor you run yourself. Free, flexible, and yours to keep online. New Relic is hosted. Uptime Kuma is self-hosted. That is the first fork — who owns the checker when your own network is the thing on fire. If you only needed a public status page and a health check, neither may be the smallest tool — GreenCrew is built for that job.

Side by side

Topic	New Relic	Uptime Kuma
Best for	Engineering orgs that want traces, metrics, and logs with a generous free tier to start, then a platform contract.	People who already self-host, want many monitor types, and accept that the checker is another box they own.
Not for	Founders looking for a public status page and a simple uptime email.	Founders who did not want another container, or who need a status URL that stays up when their VPS does not.
Hosting	Hosted	Self-hosted
What it checks	APM, infrastructure, logs, browser, mobile, and synthetics. Proactive monitoring essays live next to LLM and OTel pieces.	HTTP, keyword, TCP, DNS, Docker, push/heartbeats, and more — depending on how you configure it.
Status page	Not the product. Dashboards are for people with a New Relic login.	You can expose a status page from the same instance. It lives where you deployed it.
Alerts	NRQL-based alerts. Powerful, and a language you have to learn.	Huge list of notification backends if you configure them.
Complexity	Heavy	Simple software, operationally yours.
Pricing shape	Free tier, then data-ingest pricing. Similar shape to Datadog, different culture.	Free software. You pay the VPS, the backups, and the time.

What New Relic is

APM-first observability. Synthetics and alerts exist inside a platform built for application performance. Engineering orgs that want traces, metrics, and logs with a generous free tier to start, then a platform contract. Founders looking for a public status page and a simple uptime email.

What Uptime Kuma is

The open-source Docker monitor you run yourself. Free, flexible, and yours to keep online. People who already self-host, want many monitor types, and accept that the checker is another box they own. Founders who did not want another container, or who need a status URL that stays up when their VPS does not.

The actual split

New Relic is hosted. Uptime Kuma is self-hosted. That is the first fork — who owns the checker when your own network is the thing on fire.

Who should pick which

New Relic: Engineering orgs that want traces, metrics, and logs with a generous free tier to start, then a platform contract.
Uptime Kuma: People who already self-host, want many monitor types, and accept that the checker is another box they own.