Custom instrumentation with the New Relic Browser Agent

Custom instrumentation with the New Relic Browser Agent Have you ever wanted to customize which features of the New Relic browser agent you ship to your customers? ... more

Set up OpenTelemetry for full-stack JavaScript development

Set up OpenTelemetry for full-stack JavaScript development If you’re using a JavaScript stack like PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node.js (PERN) to deploy a full-stack web application, you might be considering options for monitoring your application. ... more

How to monitor CDN performance with Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly integrations

How to monitor CDN performance with Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly integrations Content delivery networks, or CDNs, accelerate the transfer of assets necessary to load media and other internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, and style ... more

How to monitor a Next.js application

How to monitor a Next.js application Next.js is a modern JavaScript framework that optimizes the speed and performance of pages and applications, in addition to development speed and experience. It allows you to build hybrid or server-side rendered applications ... more

How to monitor a Node.js application

How to monitor a Node.js application I learned in code school that you’re never truly finished with an application, and I've found it to be true in all my work since then. The end of creating an application is simply the beginning of a new set of processes, ... more

Understand your network performance using curated interfaces

Understand your network performance using curated interfaces When system performance suffers, you need to know if it's due to your code, your infrastructure, or the underlying network. And you need to know fast, so you can focus your efforts. ... more

New Relic Developers Guide Roundup

When we first launched our programmable platform, one of our executives envisioned a simple way to visualize customer experience and satisfaction scores. He sent the following sketch to an engineer: Two days later, he had a production-ready application, ... more

Predictions for Observability’s Evolution in 2021

Many conversations in 2020 focused on observability: how you define it; the principles and questions you should be asking when moving from monitoring to observability; whether observability is something you can achieve or something you can always strive ... more

How To Write Serverless Functions in Python

Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a blog post that originally appeared on the blog from IOpipe , which is now part of New Relic. As you’ve undoubtedly heard, serverless has grown in leaps and bounds since the release of AWS Lambda. And while ... more

Level Up Observability for SolarWinds Orion with New Relic (Part 1)

Operations professionals, site reliability engineers, and anyone else who lives and breathes the practice of systems monitoring, prides themselves in knowing what to monitor, both through experience and the shared knowledge of like-minded professionals. ... more

How to Measure Performance Metrics in React Native Apps

React Native is compelling from a performance standpoint, but as of now the framework does not give developers a solid way to measure the speed of the apps they’re testing. As a consequence, React Native code needs to be optimized on a case-by-case basis. ... more

20 JavaScript and Node.js Experts to Follow Online in 2020

NOTE: This post was originally published in March 2018, but has since been revised and updated with new and updated profiles. Whether you’re a skilled developer, an IT ops professional, an SRE, or anyone interested in programming, you know there is no ... more

Best Practices for Getting Started With New Relic Alert Conditions

For successful DevOps teams, alerting is an indispensable practice. You can’t possibly watch every service in your application every second of every day, yet you must be ready to take action immediately, should any service hit a snag. With New Relic ... more

Monitor Frontend Performance With User-Centric Performance Metrics in New Relic

Today, web pages are as dynamic as they’ve ever been, and you need more than one metric to understand your site’s performance and your end-user experience. User-centric performance metrics are critical for frontend development teams who want to proactively ... more

Most Popular New Relic One Applications (Round up #3)

Hopefully, you’ve heard the news that the New Relic One observability platform is now programmable. As central component of an observability platform, we believe programmability gives you the ability to connect your observability data to your business, ... more

Best Software Developer Events and Conferences: A Global Guide

This post was updated November 1, 2019 with new event listings and pricing updates. When it comes to industry events for software developers, new highlights are always popping up on an already-packed year-round schedule. How’s an engineer to know which ... more

Three Reasons New Relic Browser Dominates the Internet

New Relic Browser is the most deployed real user monitoring (RUM) tool in the world. Originally an extension of New Relic APM, Browser was designed to give developers and software engineers context around their end-users’ experiences. Like all New Relic ... more

New Relic Synthetics Update: A Roundup of New Capabilities

Over the last few months, the New Relic Synthetics team has been hard at work, delivering some critical capabilities to enhance the ease, efficiency, and security with which our customers monitor applications critical to their businesses. At the same ... more

FutureStack 19: Introducing New Capabilities for New Relic One

Imagine an internet where every page load is instantaneous; every tap on a mobile app yields a response that’s fast and flawless. Sounds lofty, but it’s a vision worth striving for. In fact, we’ve built our entire mission on this idea: To instrument, ... more

Synthetic vs. Real-User Monitoring: How to Improve Your Customer Experience

As companies become more reliant on their online experience to deliver revenue, website speed, availability, and performance matter more than ever. Outages are costly: According to Gartner, companies lose an average of $5,600.00 per minute, or over $300,000.00 ... more

The Most Popular Programming Languages of 2019

Programming languages are a fascinating topic: There are thousands of languages in existence today, and new ones emerge all the time. While widely-used, mainstream languages represent a very small percentage of the total, they still give developers an ... more

The 10 Principles of Observability: Guideposts on the Path to Success with Modern Software

An edited version of the following post appeared initially on Diginomica.com on July 29, 2019. Observability is an increasingly important concept for enterprise technology teams. That’s because even as new technologies and approaches—cloud, DevOps, microservices, ... more

New Relic Mobile Apps Now Monitor Ruby, Node.js, JVM, Elixir, and Go Applications

With the breakneck pace of modern digital business, you need observability at all times, not just when you’re sitting at your desk or looking at a dashboard on a wall-mounted screen. That’s why we enable you to monitor your app’s performance anytime, ... more

Two Cool Automation Tricks With New Relic APIs

You might be familiar with one or more of the New Relic APIs, but are you using them to get the most done with the least effort? We build the New Relic APIs to be simple to use, and if you have a workflow within your New Relic account that you want to ... more

Introducing New Relic Monitoring for AWS Lambda

Since its launch in 2014, AWS Lambda has grown to serve hundreds of thousands of customers generating trillions of function invocations a month. For modern software engineers, the benefits are clear: AWS Lambda is an event-based serverless computing ... more

SHADOW POST: DO NOT PUBLISH

When it comes to industry events for software developers, new highlights are always popping up on an already-packed year-round schedule. How’s an engineer to know which hackathons to hit and which tech conferences to miss? To help you plan your travels ... more

New C SDK Helps Visualize C/C++ Application Performance

This week, we released the C SDK to use with New Relic APM to help you to shine a light on applications where you currently may not have good visibility of performance. The C SDK provides the same level of production visibility offered by our seven other ... more

Fast Money: 3 Keys to Profiting from Improved Transaction Performance

You already know that faster is better when it comes to handling online customer transactions. But you might be surprised to learn what “better” really means, in terms of tangible business outcomes. Here are some examples highlighted in Akamai’s State ... more

9 Things You Should Never Code Yourself

This post was originally published on July 8, 2014 as “Seven Things You Should Never Code Yourself.” It was updated and expanded on March 12, 2019. As programmers, we like to solve problems. We like it when ideas spring from our heads and travel through ... more

Best Software Developer Events and Conferences: A Global Guide

When it comes to industry events for software developers, new highlights are always popping up on an already-packed year-round schedule. How’s an engineer to know which hackathons to hit and which tech conferences to miss? To help you plan your travels ... more