Head-to-head · DevOps Monitoring
New Relic vs Better Stack
Which one to pick in 2026 — comparing 🇺🇸 New Relic with the European alternative 🇪🇺 Better Stack on the things that actually decide who can read your data.
Verdict
Who has stronger privacy guarantees by law?
Better Stack — GDPR-native and outside the US CLOUD Act / FISA 702 reach.
Which one encrypts your data end-to-end by default?
Neither ships full E2E by default — check the table for nuance.
Which one tracks you for ads?
Neither monetises through ad tracking.
Which one is open source?
Better Stack is not fully open source — check details.
Side-by-side
New Relic vs Better Stack — full comparison
Make the switch
Try Better Stack instead of New Relic
Czech uptime monitoring and incident management — beautiful status pages, EU-hosted.
Other European alternatives to New Relic
New Relic vs AppSignal
Dutch all-in-one APM — replace Datadog + Sentry with one EU-native tool.
New Relic vs Grafana Cloud (EU region)
Open-source observability stack — EU-hosted and free to self-host anywhere.
New Relic vs Dynatrace
The unified observability and security platform for the autonomous cloud.
New Relic vs Elastisys
Managed Kubernetes and observability solutions.