A quick guide to getting started with New Relic

New Relic is an extensive platform designed to enhance the performance, efficiency, and security of your entire tech stack through comprehensive monitoring tools and interfaces. It offers detailed insights into application performance monitoring (APM), enabling users to monitor backend services, frontend issues, and external services through various UI elements such as the APM & services summary, web transactions, and logs. New Relic provides users with the ability to sort and analyze data by various criteria, offering a complete view of application performance and its dependencies. The platform is accessible via mobile apps, allowing users to receive real-time alerts and access essential features like dashboards, NRQL, and synthetic monitoring on the go. The platform encourages users to explore its documentation and tutorials to resolve performance issues and offers a free account option with certain data and user limitations. Jemiah Sius, the Director of Developer Relations at New Relic, emphasizes engaging the developer community and provides a disclaimer that the views expressed in the blog may not necessarily reflect those of New Relic.