Head-to-head · DevOps Monitoring
New Relic vs Better Stack
Which one to pick in 2026 — comparing 🇺🇸 New Relic with the European alternative 🇪🇺 Better Stack on the things that actually decide who can read your data.
🇺🇸 New Relicvs🇪🇺 Better Stack
Verdict
Who has stronger privacy guarantees by law?
Better Stack — GDPR-native and outside the US CLOUD Act / FISA 702 reach.
Which one encrypts your data end-to-end by default?
Neither ships full E2E by default — check the table for nuance.
Which one tracks you for ads?
Neither monetises through ad tracking.
Which one is open source?
Better Stack is not fully open source — check details.
Side-by-side
New Relic vs Better Stack — full comparison
Criteria
🇪🇺 Better Stack
🇺🇸 New Relic
Headquarters
Prague, Czech Republic
San Francisco, CA, USA
Jurisdiction
Czech Republic (GDPR)
USA (CLOUD Act, FISA 702)
Data location
EU (Czech Republic / Germany)
Global, US-controlled (AWS)
GDPR-native
Yes
No
CLOUD Act / FISA exposed
No
Yes
Ad tracking
No
No
End-to-end encryption
No
No
Open source
No
No
Ownership
Better Stack s.r.o. (private, Prague)
New Relic Inc. (NYSE:NEWR, taken private 2024)
Founded
2021
2008
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