Absolutely simple infrastructure monitoring

Leon Adato, a developer relations advocate at New Relic, discusses the process and benefits of using New Relic's infrastructure monitoring tool to gain insights into various system metrics such as CPU, RAM, storage, and network traffic. Drawing from his extensive IT background, Adato explains how New Relic allows sysadmins to set up monitoring with ease across different platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, and cloud environments, emphasizing the importance of non-production testing. He highlights the tool's dashboards and alert features, which help automate issue detection and resolution, thereby reducing reliance on user-reported problems. Adato also outlines the installation process of New Relic, which is user-friendly and requires minimal technical setup, and encourages experimentation with stress-testing tools to simulate system load and observe the results in New Relic's dashboards. The blog reflects Adato's personal experience and expertise in monitoring and observability, offering practical insights while noting the importance of environment-specific solutions.