The benefits of using New Relic with front end apps

The most important use of New Relic for us is API monitoring. With NewRelic we have a real-time update about the APIS health, so we have configured alerts that trigger messages in google chat when some API is not running well. Also, it helps a lot in problems investigations, providing a lot of data to understand what is going on. We have minimal use in frontend applications too, to monitor the performance of our SPA.

The most important part of the provided performance data is to understand how good or bad is being the user experience using our apps. In this aspect, [New Relic] helps us a lot our company. The alerts policy helps a lot to realize when the user experience is degrading and we can take some actions to improve.

In terms of reducing the risk of migration we can say that the basic charts of [New Relic] can say a lot if the migration went well, we recently migrated all our apps from EC2 to ECS structure, and [New Relic] was the keystone to insure that every still working fine. Talking about cost reduction, with NR we can clearly see when some app could be downscale.

With New Relic is very easy to monitor all running applications of the company, with a few clicks is possible to see all pods that are running in a cluster and understand what is going on, if some pod is running in problems and check available pods in the cluster. Also, check database connections.