Monitoring Fastly CDN Data with New Relic Insights

New Relic has developed an experimental Fastly-to-Insights service that facilitates real-time monitoring of Fastly CDN performance data within New Relic Insights, allowing users to correlate errors between their web applications and CDN. This service, which is not officially supported by New Relic, utilizes a proxy server to query Fastly's real-time analytics API and transfers metrics such as response size, request size, and status codes to New Relic Insights as custom events. To utilize this service, users need active accounts with both New Relic and Fastly, as well as specific API keys and a dedicated server to run a Docker image. The service was created to address the difficulty of diagnosing CDN-related issues and is available open-source on GitHub, inviting contributions and feedback from the community. While it was originally developed for internal use at New Relic, users can adapt the service to suit their needs, though it requires access to the Fastly API and may not be directly applicable to other CDNs without similar access.