May 2017 Summaries

New Relic's Health Map is a visualization tool that integrates application and infrastructure monitoring data to help operations teams understand and troubleshoot their applications. It provides a high-density, color-coded view of the health of all applications and the infrastructure hosts where they are deployed, making it easier for teams to track dependencies and identify performance issues. With Health Map, teams can gain a unified view of their applications and infrastructure, automatically detecting relationships between them and providing insights into application and infrastructure health through color-coded visualization and basic metrics. The tool also offers filters to quickly find specific applications or hosts and provides drill-down capabilities to troubleshoot issues within New Relic APM or Infrastructure.

New Relic has introduced Health Map, a visualization tool designed to integrate application and infrastructure monitoring data, helping operations teams troubleshoot applications, especially as organizations move towards microservices on ephemeral systems. Health Map provides a high-density, color-coded view of both application and infrastructure health, automatically showing dependencies without requiring configuration. It streamlines troubleshooting by allowing teams to quickly locate and address performance issues within complex networks, using metrics such as Apdex, error rate, and system load. The tool facilitates a seamless transition from overview to detailed analysis through New Relic's APM and Infrastructure platforms, offering insights via desktop and mobile access. Health Map is accessible to New Relic APM and Infrastructure customers, with a free trial available, encouraging users to define alert conditions for enhanced monitoring.

NRQL is a SQL-like language used for analytics since 2014, allowing customers to write custom queries and analyze data sent to New Relic. The development of NRQL alerts was announced at the FutureStack16 user conference in San Francisco last year, with hundreds of customers participating in a limited-release beta program. NRQL alerts offer highly customized alerting capabilities using NRQL queries on data stored in New Relic Insights and NRDB, providing full-stack visibility and easy-to-use UI for creating alert conditions. The new feature extends the capability to event data stored in NRDB, allowing users to slice and dice it to receive notifications when thresholds are met. This enables endless possibilities for ops and DevOps teams, with examples of useful queries shared by early adopters. For more information, refer to the New Relic documentation or try NRQL alerts yourself.

New Relic Query Language (NRQL) is a SQL-like language developed for analytics, enabling users to write custom queries to analyze data within New Relic. In response to customer requests, New Relic introduced NRQL alerts at the FutureStack16 conference, allowing users to create customized alerts using NRQL queries on data stored in New Relic Insights and the New Relic database. This feature, now generally available, provides a centralized UI to set alert conditions across a wide range of metric and event data from various New Relic products. NRQL alerts enhance operational capabilities by allowing users to receive notifications based on specific performance indicators, offering flexibility to filter and aggregate data for unique use cases. Early adopters have explored innovative applications such as percentile-based queries, and additional resources and documentation are available for users to further explore NRQL's capabilities.