Lessons When Starting Out with New Relic APM
Blog post from New Relic
In the modern software landscape, reliable application performance is crucial, prompting organizations to adopt Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions like New Relic to address potential outages, lags, and crashes. APM platforms provide real-time insights into application performance and user satisfaction, allowing software engineers, SREs, and DevOps professionals to preemptively solve issues. Key strategies for using New Relic APM include standardizing application names for consistency, adding labels for easier navigation across multiple environments, creating alert policies based on Apdex scores, identifying key transactions to monitor critical business activities, and leveraging reporting capabilities for historical insights. New Relic's Full-Stack Observability extends beyond applications to provide comprehensive visibility across logs, infrastructure, and more, supporting users in delivering reliable software.