New Relic observes it. Paxis heals it.
If you’re comparing Paxis vs New Relic, the gap isn’t which APM shows you more dashboards — it’s what happens after the alert fires. New Relic surfaces the anomaly and hands it to on-call; Paxis diagnoses, picks a playbook, runs it, and posts the outcome. Same telemetry, closed loop instead of an open page.
The gap New Relic leaves
A great observer doesn’t run the fix.
New Relic is a strong APM — NRQL, anomaly detection, and a deep integration library are exactly what you want for visibility. Paxis sits one layer downstream: when an anomaly fires, it diagnoses the signal against your service topology, runs an approved playbook (rollback, scale, restart, drain), and reports the result to Slack or PagerDuty. On-call only sees the playbook pause for approval — or the rare case it can’t resolve.
Side by side
Paxis vs New Relic, on the dimensions that matter
| Dimension | New Relic | Paxis |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-remediation | Observes and alerts; engineers run the fix. | Diagnoses the anomaly and runs an approved playbook — no human in the path. |
| Pod caps | Not enforced — alert fires; humans decide to scale or restart. | Three-pod Free cap gives you the full self-healing loop end-to-end; upgrades lift the cap without re-onboarding. |
| Alerting model | Threshold and anomaly alerts routed to a channel. | Closed-loop healing — page only when a playbook can’t resolve the issue. |
| Pricing model | Per-host / per-GB-ingest; cost grows with cardinality and retention. | Per-workspace tiers with hard caps — predictable bill, independent of telemetry volume. |
| Integrations | Native NRQL integrations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and the APM ecosystem. | Runs alongside your existing New Relic data — ingests NRQL signals and acts on them, no rip-and-replace. |
| MTTR | Detection-to-page seconds; resolution waits on the human on-call. | Page-to-resolved seconds — playbook runs and posts the outcome to Slack or PagerDuty before a human reads the page. |
New Relic is a strong APM. Paxis isn't a swap — it's the remediation layer that runs alongside the monitoring you already trust, including New Relic itself. NRQL signals in, closed-loop playbook executions out.
Wire Paxis into your New Relic data today.
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