Three design principles behind the world’s most powerful telemetry platform
Blog post from New Relic
New Relic's telemetry data platform is designed to alleviate launch-day anxiety by providing a unified platform for observability, enabling real-time investigation, and offering unlimited scalability. This platform combines metrics, events, logs, and traces to deliver a complete view of a technology stack, allowing users to quickly identify and resolve potential issues without the need to navigate multiple systems. By utilizing a schema-less database, New Relic offers both speed and flexibility, allowing users to conduct ad hoc queries quickly. The platform's architecture supports millisecond performance by optimizing for speed and parallelization, ensuring efficient data processing and query execution. Additionally, New Relic's scalability accommodates unpredictable demand spikes, with the ability to ingest over twelve billion data points per minute, offering a single query interface and intelligence features that correlate insights across data sources. The platform provides elasticity and predictable costs, allowing businesses to scale confidently while only paying for necessary resources.