September 2017 Summaries

Deploying the New Relic infrastructure monitoring agent on Amazon EC2 instances can be done quickly and easily. The process involves launching an instance, configuring advanced details to deploy the agent, and waiting for data to start being sent within 60 seconds. To simplify the deployment, users can use AWS CloudFormation or automation tools. A step-by-step guide is provided, including a script that needs to be copied and pasted into the User data field during launch configuration, which installs the agent and enables data ingestion in under a minute. Once deployed, users can start seeing data in their New Relic accounts within 60 seconds, making it an efficient way to monitor infrastructure performance.

New Relic is expanding its role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities with the introduction of two new types of add-on roles: custom and managed by New Relic. These new roles provide fine-grained access-control permissions, allowing users to grant specific permissions per product or across multiple products. The new RBAC preview capabilities automatically update to show the permissions granted for each product with the selected base role and add-on role. Customers can now easily create custom roles based on their needs, providing even more fine-grained access control capabilities. Both custom and managed add-on roles are available starting today for all New Relic customers, enabling them to tighten users' access privileges according to their organization's specific needs.

New Relic has expanded its role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities by introducing custom and managed add-on roles, providing a more granular access-control system that allows organizations to assign precise permissions to team members based on their specific roles and responsibilities. The managed add-on roles, maintained by New Relic, automatically update with new product functionalities, granting admin capabilities for individual New Relic products while restricting access to others. Additionally, custom add-on roles enable organizations to tailor access levels for specific features within each product, further refining user permissions. These new RBAC features are designed to help organizations ensure that team members have the necessary access to perform their duties without compromising security. New Relic's updated user interface includes a capabilities preview to help administrators easily visualize the permissions granted with selected roles. Both custom and managed add-on roles are now available to all New Relic customers, offering a chance to enhance security measures by refining user access privileges.