New Relic is designed to help organizations monitor, analyze, and optimize their digital systems’ performance. It provides insights into the behavior of applications, infrastructure, and end-user experiences, enabling teams to identify and address issues quickly.
Before starting New Relic let’s understand the difference between Monitoring and Observability
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Monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and visualizing predefined metrics or logs to track the health and performance of a system. It answers questions like:
Standardized Methods of Monitoring
Note: Google has updated its Core Web Vitals by replacing First Input Delay (FID) with Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Holistic visibility of application performance across multiple services in one place.
Observability is the practice of instrumenting systems to gather actionable data depicting not only when and where an issue occurred, but—more importantly—why it occurred