New Relic Technology Intelligence

What is New Relic?

New Relic is a comprehensive observability platform that provides application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, log management, and real user monitoring. It offers a unified view of software performance from code to customer experience.

The platform is built on a powerful telemetry data platform that ingests metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT). New Relic's query language (NRQL) enables flexible analysis across all telemetry data types.

Detection of New Relic indicates enterprise APM investment, commonly found in organizations requiring deep application insights, performance optimization, and comprehensive visibility into software health and customer experience.

New Relic Features

APM: Transaction tracing. Service maps. Code-level visibility. Error analytics.

Infrastructure: Host monitoring. Cloud integration. Container monitoring. Serverless.

Logs: Log aggregation. Contextual logging. Pattern detection. Log analytics.

Browser: Real user monitoring. Page load times. JavaScript errors. Session replay.

Mobile: Mobile app monitoring. Crash reporting. User journeys. Performance metrics.

Synthetics: Scripted monitors. API tests. Multi-location. Uptime monitoring.

New Relic Use Cases

Application Performance: Response times. Throughput. Error rates. Database queries.

Digital Experience: User journeys. Conversion impact. Performance correlation. Customer insights.

DevOps: Deployment tracking. Change impact. CI/CD integration. Release management.

Incident Response: Root cause analysis. Service dependencies. Error investigation. Alert management.

Capacity Planning: Resource utilization. Trend analysis. Forecasting. Optimization.

Business Intelligence: Custom dashboards. NRQL queries. Business metrics. KPIs.

New Relic Integration Examples

APM Agent (Node.js)

// Must be first require
require('newrelic');

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

// Custom instrumentation
const newrelic = require('newrelic');

app.get('/api/users', (req, res) => {
    // Add custom attribute
    newrelic.addCustomAttribute('userId', req.params.id);

    // Custom span
    newrelic.startSegment('getUsers', true, () => {
        return getUsersFromDB();
    });
});

NRQL Queries

-- Average response time
SELECT average(duration) FROM Transaction
WHERE appName = 'MyApp' SINCE 1 hour ago

-- Error rate
SELECT percentage(count(*), WHERE error IS true) as 'Error Rate'
FROM Transaction SINCE 1 day ago TIMESERIES

-- Slowest endpoints
SELECT average(duration), count(*) FROM Transaction
FACET name SINCE 1 hour ago LIMIT 10

New Relic Benefits

Full Stack: APM to infrastructure to user. Complete visibility. Unified platform.

Free Tier: 100GB/month free. Perpetual free tier. Try before scaling.

NRQL: Powerful query language. Flexible analysis. Custom insights. Real-time queries.

Easy Setup: Auto-instrumentation. Quick deployment. Minimal code changes.

AI-Powered: Applied Intelligence. Anomaly detection. Proactive alerting. Noise reduction.

Open Ecosystem: OpenTelemetry support. Prometheus integration. Flexible data.