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toran vs New Relic
New Relic is an observability and APM platform focused on metrics, traces, logs, and alerts. Teams use it to monitor system health and performance over time rather than inspect individual HTTP requests on the wire.
What New Relic is good at
- ✓Service-level metrics, dashboards, and alerting
- ✓Distributed tracing across services and infrastructure
- ✓Long-term performance monitoring and trend analysis
- ✓Operational visibility for production systems
Where it falls short for request inspection
- △Does not show exact HTTP requests and responses as sent on the wire
- △Requires agents or SDKs and code-level instrumentation
- △Focuses on aggregated metrics rather than individual API interactions
How toran is different
- →toran observes outbound HTTP requests at the transport layer
- →Shows exact requests and responses without requiring SDKs or code changes
- →Designed for debugging and understanding third-party API behavior
- →Read-only by design: no alerts, automation, or policy enforcement
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Quick decision rule
Use New Relic for monitoring, dashboards, and alerts over time. Use toran when you need to see exactly what HTTP requests and responses your application or agent is making.
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