{"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": "2026-10-16T23:12:46Z", "permalink": "https://bikoosh.com/answers/s/application-performance-monitoring-agencies-2026-10-16", "question_page": "https://bikoosh.com/answers/q/application-performance-monitoring/agencies", "brands_named": [{"position": 1, "brand": "APM", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 2, "brand": "Sentry", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 3, "brand": "Cheapest", "label": "compared"}, {"position": 4, "brand": "Datadog", "label": "compared"}, {"position": 5, "brand": "New Relic", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 6, "brand": "Grafana Cloud", "label": "recommended"}, {"position": 7, "brand": "OpenTelemetry", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 8, "brand": "Better Stack", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 9, "brand": "Uptime", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 10, "brand": "Checkly", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 11, "brand": "AppSignal", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 12, "brand": "WP Umbrella", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 13, "brand": "ManageWP", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 14, "brand": "WordPress", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 15, "brand": "Atatus", "label": "mentioned"}, {"position": 16, "brand": "Scout APM", "label": "mentioned"}], "sources_cited": [{"url": "https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/features/connect-integrations-overview", "domain": "docs.newrelic.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://costbench.com/best/best-error-tracking-tools/", "domain": "costbench.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://www.spendhound.com/marketplace/sentry-pricing", "domain": "spendhound.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://www.spendhound.com/marketplace/datadog-pricing", "domain": "spendhound.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/better-stack-vs-checkly/", "domain": "betterstack.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/02/13/the-top-5-scout-alternatives.html", "domain": "blog.appsignal.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://www.appsignal.com/alternative/scout-apm-alternative", "domain": "appsignal.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://instawp.com/best-wordpress-monitoring-tools/", "domain": "instawp.com", "source_type": "other"}, {"url": "https://notifier.so/guides/website-monitoring-for-wordpress-agencies/", "domain": "notifier.so", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://atatus.com/solutions/agency-monitoring", "domain": "atatus.com", "source_type": "vendor"}, {"url": "https://www.manageengine.com/full-stack-observability-msp/application-performance-monitoring.html", "domain": "manageengine.com", "source_type": "vendor"}], "answer_text": "Assuming you mean a digital/dev agency monitoring apps you build and maintain for clients (not a government agency - say the word and I'll redo it for that).\n\nThe honest headline: there is no single \"agency APM.\" What matters is per-client isolation, pricing that doesn't punish you for having 30 small clients instead of one big one, and client-facing output you can hand over. Here's what I'd actually name, in order:\n\n**1. Sentry** - My default for most agencies. Projects map cleanly onto clients, errors + tracing + session replay in one, and when a client calls about a bug you get the stack trace and the replay instead of \"it's broken on my phone.\" Cheapest serious option by a wide margin - SMB spend averages ~$5K/yr vs ~$100K for Datadog. Weakness: it's app-level, not infrastructure.\n\n**2. New Relic** - The most agency-friendly *commercial arrangement* of the big three. Its partner program explicitly gives multi-tenant views across customer accounts and bills the partner monthly for all client accounts, so you can resell monitoring instead of eating it. Pricing is ingest-GB + per-user, so watch seat count.\n\n**3. Datadog** - Pick this when clients have real infrastructure (Kubernet", "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"}}