New Relic
MentionedMonitoring
Observability platform for application performance: tracks response times, errors and user experience.
New Relic, explained
Written by EduVerseWhat it is
New Relic is a commercial observability platform, best known for application performance monitoring (APM). You add a New Relic agent to your application, and it reports response times, throughput, errors and slow database calls per transaction, alongside infrastructure metrics, logs and browser data.
Why teams use it
It answers questions like “which endpoint got slower after today’s deploy?” without you building any monitoring yourself. Its query language, NRQL, lets you slice the data any way you like. It competes directly with Datadog; both cover much the same ground, so the choice often depends on what the company already uses.
An example from work
Response times climb after an afternoon deploy, visible as a deployment marker on the APM chart. In the query builder you run SELECT percentile(duration, 95) FROM Transaction FACET name SINCE 1 hour ago, one endpoint stands out, and its transaction trace shows a slow new database query.
Our own explanation, not a quote from the book.
In the book
Sentences from The Software Realm, Decoded that mention New Relic, exactly as printed.
1 more passages about New Relic in the full book
Read every conversation where New Relic comes up, with the interactive slides and demos.
Where it fits
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and dashboards
Coverage in the book
Mentioned as part of the wider landscape, without in-depth coverage.
