--- title: "Instana vs New Relic: Which is more popular by branded search?" description: "Which is more popular in search, Instana or New Relic? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Application dependency monitoring set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time." canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/compare/instana-vs-new-relic" publisher: "Brandwave" --- # Instana vs New Relic: Which is more popular by branded search? Which is more popular in search, Instana or New Relic? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Application dependency monitoring set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time. ## Key facts - **Compared**: Instana and New Relic - **Competitive set**: Application dependency monitoring - **Market**: Global - **Month measured**: Aug 2026 - **Instana Share of Search**: 2.3% - **New Relic Share of Search**: 14.7% ## Which is more popular in search, Instana or New Relic? - In August 2026, New Relic had more branded searches than Instana among application dependency monitoring worldwide. New Relic was estimated to have 62.7K branded searches compared to Instana’s 9.9K, and held a 14.7% Share of Search versus Instana’s 2.3%. - New Relic was ahead of Instana in every measured month of the 11 months ending August 2026. - Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Instana’s estimated Share of Search among application dependency monitoring worldwide moved from 7.8% to 2.3%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 40.5K to 9.9K. - Across the 11 months ending August 2026, New Relic’s estimated Share of Search among application dependency monitoring worldwide moved from 17.9% to 14.7%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 93.6K to 62.7K. ## How did search popularity change for application dependency monitoring worldwide in August 2026? - In August 2026, Instana overtook AppDynamics to rank 4th among application dependency monitoring worldwide, at 2.3%. - Estimated monthly branded searches for New Relic worldwide fell 33% over 11 measured months, from 93.6K to 62.7K in August 2026. ## Month by month | Month | Instana estimated searches | Instana Share of Search | Instana rank | New Relic estimated searches | New Relic Share of Search | New Relic rank | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Oct 2025 | 40.5K | 7.8% | 4 | 93.6K | 17.9% | 3 | | Nov 2025 | 8.1K | 1.8% | 5 | 93.4K | 20.3% | 2 | | Dec 2025 | 8.1K | 2.1% | 5 | 76.7K | 20.1% | 2 | | Jan 2026 | 8.1K | 1.8% | 5 | 77K | 17.3% | 3 | | Feb 2026 | 8.1K | 1.9% | 5 | 64K | 14.8% | 3 | | Mar 2026 | 8.1K | 1.8% | 5 | 64.2K | 14.1% | 3 | | Apr 2026 | 8.1K | 1.9% | 5 | 63.4K | 14.7% | 3 | | May 2026 | 6.6K | 1.5% | 5 | 62.9K | 14.6% | 3 | | Jun 2026 | 8.1K | 1.8% | 5 | 76.6K | 17.1% | 3 | | Jul 2026 | 6.6K | 1.5% | 5 | 63K | 14.8% | 3 | | Aug 2026 | 9.9K | 2.3% | 4 | 62.7K | 14.7% | 3 | | Sep 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ## How each brand is measured Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Instana’s and New Relic’s names. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brands is growing, holding steady, or fading. - **Instana**: Measured on the search term “instana”. - **New Relic**: Measured on the search terms “apm new relic”, “monitoring new relic”, “new relic”, “new relic apm”, “new relic app”, “new relic observability”, “new relic software”, “newrelic”, “newrelic com” and “observability new relic”, summed into one figure. - [Instana profile](/demand/global-en/brands/instana) - [New Relic profile](/demand/global-en/brands/new-relic) - [All application dependency monitoring worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/application-dependency-monitoring): The set both shares are measured inside, 5 brands. ## Methodology - [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is more popular in search, Instana or New Relic? In August 2026, New Relic had more branded searches than Instana among application dependency monitoring worldwide. New Relic was estimated to have 62.7K branded searches compared to Instana’s 9.9K, and held a 14.7% Share of Search versus Instana’s 2.3%. ## Cite this page Brandwave. "Instana vs New Relic: Which is more popular by branded search?". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/compare/instana-vs-new-relic This page is also available as HTML at https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/compare/instana-vs-new-relic. Brandwave publishes an index of its Markdown pages at https://gobrandwave.com/llms.txt.