Superb Monitoring and Details with Little Setup Time
Overall Satisfaction with New Relic
We are using New Relic to monitor a growing number of microservices and infrastructure for a major project we are building. New Relic allows us to easily keep an eye on what services are up, what services are down, and what services are having problems. Thanks to the altering and integration features of New Relic, we are notified immediately when a service is having issues and can attend to it right away.
Pros
- Performance Monitoring
- Detailed Reports
- Management Interface
Cons
- Configuration through code - Basic items can be configured through code, but being able to set advanced features, like Apdex would be nice.
- New Relic has enabled us to worry less about tracking what servers are up and how they are performing since it will notify us accordingly.
- New Relic has allowed us to dig deeper into our application performance, since we can see the direct impact of the code we write on the server.
- New Relic makes it easier for us to judge when/if we want to scale our servers based on overall history.
We had originally looked into CloudWatch to monitor our resources since we have our stack built in AWS, but found that it would take additional work to setup the dashboards, alerts, and details that we wanted to see in our reports. It was worth the additional investment for us to get the data we needed with less work.


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