CubeAPM: The Leading New Relic Alternative in 2025

Here's what makes CubeAPM different

Everything You Need to Find, Trace, and Fix Problems - Fast

Instantly Detect
What Matters

Find and fix critical issues before your users notice:
- Intuitive Dashboards that highlight bottlenecks across your entire application stack
- Smart Latency Breakdown showing exactly which dependencies (databases, APIs, etc.) are slowing you down
- Errors Inbox that automatically groups and prioritizes exceptions by impact
- Real-time Alerting with rich context that helps you understand exactly what's wrong
Trace Every Request
End-to-End

Follow the complete journey of any request across your distributed services:
- See the full path through all microservices with timing for each step
- Inspect database queries, HTTP calls, and third-party integrations
- Identify exactly where errors originate with full stack traces
- Correlate traces with logs and metrics for complete context
Monitor Your Entire
Infrastructure Stack

One unified view for all your infrastructure components:
- Kubernetes clusters and containers
- Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Web servers and load balancers
- All AWS components including ECS, RDS, Redshift, Cloud services and virtual machines
Focus Only On The
Right Data

Intelligent sampling retains important events while discarding noise:
- Automatically adjust sampling rates based on traffic patterns
- Process gigabytes of telemetry data per minute on a single node
- Reduce storage costs by up to 90% while maintaining complete visibility

Here's What You Get With CubeAPM

Support That Doesn’t Cost Extra

Why it matters:

With most tools, premium support comes with a premium price tag.

With CubeAPM

You get direct access to core engineers via Slack or WhatsApp for free - TAT within minutes not days.

Result:

Faster MTTR and happier dev teams without paying for premium tiers.

Control Where Your Data Lives (And What You Pay For)

Why it matters:

Tools like New Relic charge you heavily per GB ingested and stored — and that includes data transfer to their cloud.

With CubeAPM:

Your telemetry stays on your infra. No offsite transfer means no egress costs, and we charge significantly less per GB.

Result:

Lower cost per GB + no data transfer = massive savings at scale.

Smart Sampling That Cuts Storage Costs by 60-80%

Why it matters:

Most APMs store everything leading to bloated storage bills.

With CubeAPM:

Our Smart Sampling captures only what matters, drastically reducing data volume and cost.

Result:

Less data stored = huge savings on infra and ingestion costs.

Unlimited Data Retention. No Extra Charges

Why it matters:

Need to retain logs or traces for audits or postmortems? Legacy APMs charge more the longer you hold data.

With CubeAPM:

Keep everything you need, for as long as you want, without paying extra.

Result:

Flat, predictable pricing, no matter how long you retain data.

Migrate Within 1 Hour Without Any Hassle

Why it matters:

Most APMs make switching painful, with agent rework and long setup times.

With CubeAPM:

We’re New Relic compatible and OpenTelemetry-native. No code changes, no downtime.

Result:

Migrate in under an hour — with minimal effort and zero disruption.

See who stands out

CubeAPM Vs New Relic

Distributed Tracing

Full

Limited

Latency

Low

High

New Relic Agent Compatible

Yes

OpenTelemetry Compatible

Native Support

Limited Support

Prometheus Compatible

Native Support

Customer Support TAT

In Minutes[Slack/WhatsApp with Core devs]

In Days[Email]

Sampling

Smart Sampling*

Standard Probabilistic Sampling

Data Compliance

Data stored on your server

Data stored on New Relic server [Outside India]

Data Retention

Unlimited
[at no Extra Cost]

Pay More for Longer Data Retention

Metrics

Yes

Logs

Yes

Errors Inbox

Yes

Infrastructure Monitoring

Yes

Browser Monitoring
(aka Real User Monitoring or RUM)

Yes

Synthetic Monitoring

Yes

Managed

Yes

FAQ

Still on the fence? Get your concerns answered now

Unlike New Relic APM pricing, CubeAPM offers clear, predictable pricing with no hidden fees, making it a more budget-friendly choice.

CubeAPM provides enterprise-level APM features, AI-driven insights, and scalable pricing without the challenges of New Relic enterprise pricing.

Many businesses seek New Relic competitors due to its high pricing and complex cost structure. CubeAPM provides a more transparent and cost-effective solution.

CubeAPM pricing is based on the amount of data ingested. Since CubeAPM runs on your infrastructure, the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) also includes the cost of infra. CubeAPM employs Smart Sampling to significantly reduce the infrastructure demand, allowing CubeAPM to run with much lower resource consumption compared to its peers. The infra cost of CubeAPM comes out to ~$0.02/GB. For comparison, data transfer to other commercial vendors costs ~$0.10/GB over and above their advertised pricing.

Telemetry generates large volumes of data. Popular observability tools either store all data (downside: hugely increased cost) or do random sampling at the edge (downside: loss of information). CubeAPM uses deep context to make sampling decisions, e.g., usual latency of a given API vis-a-vis the latency in the current sample. Thus, CubeAPM's "Smart" Sampling achieves a significantly higher signal to noise ratio in sampling. This enables CubeAPM to handle higher incoming traffic while consuming significantly lesser resources.

You can explore the interactive CubeAPM Playground to explore the platform without having to do any setup. To try CubeAPM on your infrastructure, head on to the docs section for setup instructions. You can also get in touch with us to schedule a demo.

#1 New Relic Alternative

Why Overpay? Switch to CubeAPM and Save 60-80%

Fully-managed observability tool

Runs on your infrastructure

Zero cloud egress costs

Data ingestion of 1GB/second

Everything You Need to Find, Trace, and Fix Problems - Fast

Instantly DetectWhat Matters

Trace Every RequestEnd-to-End

Monitor Your EntireInfrastructure Stack

Focus Only On TheRight Data

Here's What You Get With CubeAPM

Support That Doesn’t Cost Extra

Why it matters:

With CubeAPM

Result:

Control Where Your Data Lives (And What You Pay For)

Why it matters:

With CubeAPM:

Result:

Smart Sampling That Cuts Storage Costs by 60-80%

Why it matters:

With CubeAPM:

Result:

Unlimited Data Retention. No Extra Charges

Why it matters:

With CubeAPM:

Result:

Migrate Within 1 Hour Without Any Hassle

Why it matters:

With CubeAPM:

Result:

800+ Integrations to Monitor Your Entire Stack With No Extra Costs

CubeAPM Vs New Relic

Cost Breakdown for 10TB data/month

Industry Leaders Trust Us

One Dashboard. Total Visibility.

Start MonitoringSmarter at 1/5th the Cost

FAQ

How does CubeAPM compare to the New Relic pricing model?

What makes CubeAPM a strong New Relic competitor?

Why look for New Relic alternatives?

How does CubeAPM pricing work?

What is Smart Sampling?

What's the easiest way to try CubeAPM?

Instantly Detect
What Matters

Trace Every Request
End-to-End

Monitor Your Entire
Infrastructure Stack

Focus Only On The
Right Data

Start Monitoring
Smarter at 1/5th the Cost