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New Relic
Full-stack observability — metrics, logs, traces, and errors in one platform.
Free-Limited
Observability Monitoring
Overview
Telemetry platform with metrics, logs, traces and APM in one place.
Key Features
- APM with distributed tracing for 15+ languages
- Unified telemetry: metrics, logs, events, and traces in one query interface
- NRQL — New Relic Query Language for flexible data exploration
- Synthetics for proactive endpoint monitoring from 20+ global locations
- Error inbox for tracking and triaging application errors
- AIOps: intelligent alert correlation to reduce notification noise
Real-World Workflows
Root cause analysis for a production incident
- 1Alert fires on a spike in error rate detected by New Relic APM
- 2Navigate to the service summary to identify the slowest transactions
- 3Click a slow trace to see the full distributed trace across microservices
- 4Correlate the trace timestamp with deployment markers to identify the bad release
- 5Query logs filtered by trace ID using NRQL to find the root error
Kubernetes cluster observability
- 1Deploy the New Relic infrastructure agent as a DaemonSet
- 2Enable Kubernetes integration to collect cluster, node, and pod metrics
- 3Use the pre-built Kubernetes dashboard in New Relic One
- 4Set alerts on OOMKill events and node CPU saturation
Getting Started
# Install the New Relic infrastructure agent: curl -Ls https://download.newrelic.com/install/newrelic-cli/scripts/install.sh | bash newrelic install -n infrastructure-agent-installer
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