Head-to-head · DevOps Monitoring
New Relic vs Dynatrace
Which one to pick in 2026 — comparing 🇺🇸 New Relic with the European alternative 🇪🇺 Dynatrace on the things that actually decide who can read your data.
Verdict
Who has stronger privacy guarantees by law?
Dynatrace — 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?
Dynatrace is not fully open source — check details.
Side-by-side
New Relic vs Dynatrace — full comparison
Make the switch
Try Dynatrace instead of New Relic
The unified observability and security platform for the autonomous cloud.
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 Better Stack
Czech uptime monitoring and incident management — beautiful status pages, EU-hosted.
New Relic vs Elastisys
Managed Kubernetes and observability solutions.