{"question": "best application performance monitoring for agencies", "category": "application-performance-monitoring", "category_name": "application performance monitoring", "audience": "agencies", "audience_name": "agencies", "engine": "Claude (Anthropic) with web search", "model": "claude-opus-5", "asked_at": "2026-09-27T23:12:05Z", "permalink": "https://bikoosh.com/answers/s/application-performance-monitoring-agencies-2026-09-27", "question_page": "https://bikoosh.com/answers/q/application-performance-monitoring/agencies", "brands_named": [{"position": 1, "brand": "Sentry", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 2, "brand": "New Relic", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 3, "brand": "Datadog", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 4, "brand": "Better Stack", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 5, "brand": "Checkly", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 6, "brand": "Add", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 7, "brand": "Grafana Cloud", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 8, "brand": "SigNoz", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 9, "brand": "OpenTelemetry", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 10, "brand": "Hyperping", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 11, "brand": "Pulsetic", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 12, "brand": "Skip Dynatrace", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 13, "brand": "Dynatrace", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 14, "brand": "Splunk", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 15, "brand": "Tracefox", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 16, "brand": "PerkyDash", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 17, "brand": "Visual Sentinel", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 18, "brand": "Sentinel", "label": "mentioned"}], "sources_cited": [{"url": "https://www.index.dev/skill-vs-skill/sentry-vs-datadog-vs-new-relic", "domain": "index.dev", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/better-stack-vs-sentry/", "domain": "betterstack.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/datadog-vs-new-relic/", "domain": "cloudzero.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://newrelic.com/blog/apm/application-performance-monitoring-tools", "domain": "newrelic.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://comparetiers.com/blog/datadog-vs-new-relic-pricing", "domain": "comparetiers.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://performance.qa/blog/datadog-vs-new-relic/", "domain": "performance.qa", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/better-stack-vs-checkly/", "domain": "betterstack.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://www.dash0.com/comparisons/better-stack-alternatives", "domain": "dash0.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://middleware.io/blog/synthetic-monitoring-tools/", "domain": "middleware.io", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://uptrace.dev/tools/top-apm-tools", "domain": "uptrace.dev", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://hyperping.com/use-cases/agencies", "domain": "hyperping.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://pulsetic.com/white-label-website-monitoring/", "domain": "pulsetic.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools/", "domain": "rollbar.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/application-monitoring-tools/", "domain": "cloudzero.com", "source_type": "other"}], "answer_text": "## My short list, in the order I'd actually recommend them\n\n**1. Sentry** - My default for most agencies. The org → project model maps cleanly onto client → app, so you get per-client isolation, per-client alert routing, and per-client dashboards without inventing a tagging scheme. Errors + tracing + session replay + profiling + uptime + cron in one SDK, and the pricing is the most predictable of the bunch (~$26/mo Team tier, scaling on event volume rather than hosts). Realistic band for a mid-size shop is $500-2,000/mo. Weakness: costs get ugly at high event volume without disciplined filtering/sampling, and it's app-inward, not infra-outward. ([index.dev](https://www.index.dev/skill-vs-skill/sentry-vs-datadog-vs-new-relic), [betterstack.com](https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/better-stack-vs-sentry/))\n\n**2. New Relic** - The better pick if you're monitoring *many small client deployments*. It charges on data ingest plus user seats instead of per-host-per-product, which is exactly the shape of agency work: 30 clients × 2 small hosts each destroys host-based pricing but barely moves an ingest-based bill. Free tier is genuinely usable (100GB/mo), and transaction tracing o", "answer_truncated": true, "measurement": "One answer from one engine on one date. Not a ranking and not a claim about the world; brands the engine did not name are not recorded.", "limitation": "Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included.", "alerts": {"name": "Answer Watch Pro", "price_usd": 79, "period": "month", "gets": "daily change alerts for up to 5 brands in what one AI answer engine says, history, CSV export. Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included", "url": "https://bikoosh.com/answers"}}