New Relic Vulnerability Management

Name: New Relic Vulnerability Management
Brand: New Relic
Rating: 4.5 (195 reviews)

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Est 2007|Valuation $6.1B|Raised $385.3M

LinkedIn 188K|Website|Web traffic 1.3M|FTEs 3,034|HQ San Francisco, California, US

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01Competitive Landscape

Narrative competitive analysis

Where New Relic VM tends to be effective: - Provides a consolidated view for teams that operate primarily within New Relic. - Incorporates exploitability signals beyond CVSS (e.g., EPSS and indicators related to active ransomware campaigns) to assist prioritization. - Supports ingestion of external findings through APIs and integration quickstarts to centralize security signals. Where alternatives may be more appropriate: - Dynatrace Application Security: may be preferred where a customer is already committed to Dynatrace and requires tight topology mapping with runtime security. - Snyk: offers deeper developer-centric AppSec workflows (SCA, SAST, IaC, container scanning) and CI/CD integrations for build-time enforcement. - Tenable/Qualys/Rapid7: typically provide broader asset coverage, scanning breadth, compliance reporting, and remediation governance for classic vulnerability management programs. Customer sentiment and market adoption signals: - Independent coverage positions New Relic’s VM as an extension into security within an observability platform. - Analyst commentary frames Vulnerability Management as part of an observability suite’s expansion into security use cases. - Community feedback highlights concerns around vendor pricing models and UI complexity, which are relevant when adopting a platform-integrated VM solution.

	New Relic Vulnerability Management	Dynatrace Runtime Vulnerability Analytics	Datadog Cloud Security (CSM) (contextual)
Starting Price	Published per-volume pricing in some communications; may be bundled in higher tiers; plus platform user/ingest pricing	Published per-host pricing available from the vendor; varies by region and plan	Security modules are priced as add-ons; exact starting price varies by module and plan and may be listed on the vendor pricing page
Most Suitable For	Organizations already invested in New Relic observability that prefer an integrated approach to security findings and telemetry	Organizations using Dynatrace with a need for runtime vulnerability analytics tightly coupled to topology	Organizations using Datadog for observability that want integrated security monitoring and alerting within that platform
Key Capability Emphasis	Correlation of vulnerabilities to service context and telemetry; exploitability/prioritization signals; ingestion of third-party findings	Runtime analytics integrated with Dynatrace topology and application context	Broad ecosystem integration and platform-wide observability plus modular security features
Key Weakness	Coverage depends on agent deployment and observability hygiene; may not serve as a full replacement for enterprise VM governance tools; historical concerns around pricing complexity	Perception of complex enterprise packaging and module pricing	Common market feedback about cost escalation with scale and complexity of modular pricing

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative competitive analysis

Where New Relic VM tends to be effective:

Provides a consolidated view for teams that operate primarily within New Relic.
Incorporates exploitability signals beyond CVSS (e.g., EPSS and indicators related to active ransomware campaigns) to assist prioritization.
Supports ingestion of external findings through APIs and integration quickstarts to centralize security signals.

Where alternatives may be more appropriate:

Dynatrace Application Security: may be preferred where a customer is already committed to Dynatrace and requires tight topology mapping with runtime security.
Snyk: offers deeper developer-centric AppSec workflows (SCA, SAST, IaC, container scanning) and CI/CD integrations for build-time enforcement.
Tenable/Qualys/Rapid7: typically provide broader asset coverage, scanning breadth, compliance reporting, and remediation governance for classic vulnerability management programs.

Customer sentiment and market adoption signals:

Independent coverage positions New Relic’s VM as an extension into security within an observability platform.
Analyst commentary frames Vulnerability Management as part of an observability suite’s expansion into security use cases.
Community feedback highlights concerns around vendor pricing models and UI complexity, which are relevant when adopting a platform-integrated VM solution.

	New Relic Vulnerability Management	Dynatrace Runtime Vulnerability Analytics	Datadog Cloud Security (CSM) (contextual)
Starting Price	Published per-volume pricing in some communications; may be bundled in higher tiers; plus platform user/ingest pricing	Published per-host pricing available from the vendor; varies by region and plan	Security modules are priced as add-ons; exact starting price varies by module and plan and may be listed on the vendor pricing page
Most Suitable For	Organizations already invested in New Relic observability that prefer an integrated approach to security findings and telemetry	Organizations using Dynatrace with a need for runtime vulnerability analytics tightly coupled to topology	Organizations using Datadog for observability that want integrated security monitoring and alerting within that platform
Key Capability Emphasis	Correlation of vulnerabilities to service context and telemetry; exploitability/prioritization signals; ingestion of third-party findings	Runtime analytics integrated with Dynatrace topology and application context	Broad ecosystem integration and platform-wide observability plus modular security features
Key Weakness	Coverage depends on agent deployment and observability hygiene; may not serve as a full replacement for enterprise VM governance tools; historical concerns around pricing complexity	Perception of complex enterprise packaging and module pricing	Common market feedback about cost escalation with scale and complexity of modular pricing