G2 Vendor Directory

Apache log4j vs. New Relic

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricApache log4j

by The Apache Software Foundation

New Relic

by New Relic

Overall rating4.54.4
Review count142584
Ease of use8.98.6
Ease of setup8.88.9
Quality of support8.58.8
Meets requirements8.99.1
NPS67.42424259.753954
Small Business30.3%27.5%
Mid-Market34.5%43.1%
Enterprise35.2%29.4%
Total page views351,950
Total LLM citations1525,177

Apache log4j

Apache Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in Logback architecture.

Pros

  • Integrations
  • Ease of Use
  • Log Management
  • Debugging
  • Monitoring

New Relic

New Relic is the all-in-one Intelligent Observability platform built to help engineering and IT teams plan, build, deploy, and run software with confidence. By unifying metrics, events, logs, and traces into a single, secure telemetry cloud, New Relic gives over 25 million engineers real time visibility and AI-powered insights across their entire digital estate, from code to cloud. Designed to replace fragmented point solutions, New Relic consolidates full-stack observability into a single source of truth.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Monitoring
  • Insights
  • Analytics
  • User Interface