New Relic and Atlassian Statuspage are often evaluated together by teams building out their reliability stack. New Relic (observability platform for every engineer, founded 2008) is typically a fit for Developers, DevOps Teams, and SREs, while Atlassian Statuspage (communicate incidents and build trust with status pages, founded 2013) leans toward DevOps Teams, Customer Success, and Engineering Leaders. Both cover 5 of the same core capabilities, so the decision usually comes down to where they diverge.
Observability platform for every engineer
Pricing: Usage-based limits: Free (500 checks/mo), Standard (10k checks), Pro (1M checks)
Founded: 2008
Best for: Developers, DevOps Teams, SREs
Communicate incidents and build trust with status pages
Pricing: Free (100 subs), Hobby $29/mo, Startup $99/mo, Business $399/mo
Founded: 2013
Best for: DevOps Teams, Customer Success, Engineering Leaders
| Feature | New Relic | Atlassian Statuspage |
|---|---|---|
| Synthetic Monitoring | ||
| Real User Monitoring | ||
| API & Browser Testing | ||
| Self-Healing Tests | ||
| AI-Powered | ||
| Uptime Monitoring | ||
| Alerting | ||
| Slack Integration | ||
| CI/CD Integration | ||
| Multi-Location Checks | ||
| SSL Monitoring | ||
| Status Page | ||
| Open Source | ||
| On-Premise / Self-Host | ||
| Free Tier | ||
| API Access | ||
| Dashboards | ||
| Incident Management |
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On capability breadth, New Relic pulls ahead here: it uniquely offers Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring, API & Browser Testing, and AI-Powered, among others. Choose New Relic if those matter to your workflow; Atlassian Statuspage (Free (100 subs), Hobby $29/mo, Startup $99/mo, Business $399/mo) remains a solid option if Status Page is what you need.
New Relic is observability platform for every engineer, while Atlassian Statuspage is communicate incidents and build trust with status pages. New Relic adds Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring, and API & Browser Testing on top of the shared feature set. Atlassian Statuspage brings Status Page that New Relic does not.
New Relic pricing: Usage-based limits: Free (500 checks/mo), Standard (10k checks), Pro (1M checks). Atlassian Statuspage pricing: Free (100 subs), Hobby $29/mo, Startup $99/mo, Business $399/mo. Evaluate against your check volume and team size; entry pricing rarely reflects total cost at scale.
New Relic is designed with Developers, DevOps Teams, and SREs in mind, whereas Atlassian Statuspage targets DevOps Teams, Customer Success, and Engineering Leaders. If your team matches the former profile, New Relic is usually the closer fit.
No. It does a different job. On-call and status tools decide who gets paged and what customers see, but they need a detection layer feeding them. ObserveOne is that layer: scheduled synthetic checks on your critical journeys that catch the outage and hand it to your incident process.
On-call and status tools decide who gets paged and what customers see, but they need a detection layer feeding them. ObserveOne is that layer: scheduled synthetic checks on your critical journeys that catch the outage and hand it to your incident process. The free tier covers enough to try it on one critical journey.
Each tool has its own alternatives page too, not just this matchup.