Company
Date Published
Author
Daniel Harman, Senior Director, Product Management
Word count
785
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

New Relic has announced the general availability of Fleet Control and Agent Control, part of its New Relic Control platform, designed to tackle the complexities and inefficiencies of managing observability agents and telemetry data across extensive IT infrastructures. This platform offers a unified control plane that centralizes and automates the observability lifecycle, allowing engineering and operations teams to apply consistent settings to entire fleets, streamline deployments, and ensure compliance, thereby eliminating security risks and operational overhead associated with manual management. Fleet Control automates agent management at scale with features like centralized configurations and deployment rings, while Agent Control, now supporting both Kubernetes clusters and host-based environments, enhances remote management and agent health monitoring. Pipeline Control, already available, optimizes telemetry data before it reaches New Relic, reducing noise and costs. New Relic Control aims to provide a comprehensive, out-of-the-box solution for deploying, updating, and governing observability stacks, integrating both New Relic and open-source instrumentation for seamless management.