August 2017 Summaries

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The blog post highlights the role of a solution consultant, 竹澤 拡子, at New Relic, who specializes in IT service management and supports digital transformation efforts across various industries, with a focus on the media sector. It emphasizes that the views presented are personal and do not represent New Relic's official stance, and any solutions offered are tailored to specific environments rather than being part of New Relic’s commercial offerings. Readers are encouraged to engage in discussions and seek support on New Relic's Explorers Hub, and the post includes links to third-party content which New Relic does not officially endorse. The post also mentions an infographic on monitoring application performance in hybrid clouds and directs readers to explore New Relic's extensive integrations for monitoring technology stacks.

You can create a Server Overview dashboard in New Relic Insights by viewing key metrics about a server on a single dashboard. This is done by first navigating to Infrastructure's Compute page and clicking the small icon resembling a chart on an easel, which opens the underlying NRQL query in Insights. You can then customize the query, give it a title, and add it to a new dashboard. To display different charts such as CPU usage, memory used, total utilization, network throughput, and running processes, you need to modify the NRQL query accordingly. For example, to display a list of running processes, you would use a query that includes uniqueCount(processId), latest(userName), average(cpuPercent), and average(memoryResidentSizeBytes). You can also add widgets to your dashboard to display recent events and select an individual host for filtering. Creating custom dashboards is easy in New Relic Insights, as it allows you to easily see the status of an individual server at a glance by pulling key server metrics into a single dashboard.

New Relic Infrastructure provides real-time visibility into server metrics, allowing users to create custom dashboards using New Relic Insights, which stores its data in the New Relic Database (NRDB). By leveraging the NRQL query language, users can tailor charts for CPU usage, memory utilization, storage, network throughput, and running processes, making it easy to visualize server performance at a glance. The process involves executing specific NRQL queries to pull data from various system samples and then configuring dashboards to display key metrics such as CPU percentage, memory used, and recent system events. Additionally, users can filter dashboards to focus on individual servers, enhancing the monitoring capability for specific hosts. The article emphasizes the flexibility and ease of integrating and customizing data from New Relic Infrastructure into Insights to create informative and actionable dashboards. Phil Weber, the author, is a Senior Technical Training Specialist at New Relic University, with extensive experience in software development and technical training.

New Relic Insights` is a platform for real-time analytics and data visualization that helps customers understand how their applications and infrastructure are performing, as well as the quality of the end user experience they deliver. The `Insights` team recently launched several new features to enhance the dashboarding and data exploration experience, including the addition of notes to dashboards with the introduction of `Dashboard Notes`. This feature allows users to add text content, images, and links to their dashboards using Markdown formatting, making it easy to create context that can be easily viewed and accessed by all users. With `Dashboard Notes`, users can now create flexible and editable notes on any dashboard, which can be used for various purposes such as creating postmortem dashboards following an incident or attaching runbooks to dashboards. The feature is designed to provide a more cohesive, customized, and easy-to-navigate experience for users.

New Relic Insights, a platform for real-time analytics and data visualization, has introduced a new feature called Dashboard Notes, enhancing the dashboarding and data exploration experience by allowing users to add textual content alongside data charts. This feature enables users to create, add, and edit notes directly on any dashboard using Markdown, a simple formatting syntax, enabling the inclusion of custom content such as text, images, and links. Dashboard Notes offer flexibility for various use cases, such as creating postmortem dashboards, attaching runbook URLs, and adding images or external links. While maintaining privacy by restricting note copying across dashboards or accounts, the feature allows users to expand, edit, and delete notes through an action menu, providing easily accessible context for all dashboard users. Iris Gau, an engineering intern at New Relic, shares insights into her experience with the development of this feature, highlighting the collaborative environment and technical learning at the company.