Modern engineering teams wanting Playwright (Checkly preferred), buyers wanting deepest AI features (Dynatrace preferred), or those concerned about Francisco Partners post-acquisition product investment trajectory.
Cost-conscious mid-market and enterprise (100-10,000 employees) already on New Relic for APM who want synthetic monitoring in the same bundle.
Why we say this
Editorial pulled these weaknesses from New Relic Synthetics’s product card in our Top 10 Synthetic Monitoring Software for 2026:
- ! PE-driven product roadmap concerns post Nov 2023 $6.5B take-private
- ! Synthetics not the primary product; less investment than APM
- ! AI features lag Datadog Watchdog or Dynatrace Davis
- ! UX feels older than Datadog or Checkly
- ! Selenium-based scripting feels dated next to Playwright-native Checkly
If New Relic Synthetics is wrong for you, consider these instead
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Engineering teams (10-2,000 engineers) who treat synthetics as part of the SDLC, want Playwright-native authoring, and prefer monitoring-as-code over recorder UIs.
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SMB and mid-market teams (under 500 employees) wanting simple uptime + transaction monitoring with public status pages and minimal setup.
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API-heavy teams already using SoapUI/ReadyAPI who want to reuse API tests as synthetic monitors, plus enterprise teams needing strong SLA reporting.
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Last updated 2026-05-10. Editorial verdict based on the published Top 10 Synthetic Monitoring Software for 2026 ranking. Disagree? Tell us.