Performance Monitoring With New Relic

New Relic is a performance management solution, enabling developers to diagnose and fix application performance problems in real time. Learn how to use it in your apps, and why it can be a developers best friend.

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Getting Started With New Relic in 30 Minutes
I remember working on a Rails app a few years ago and someone floated the idea of using this new service that had appeared on the scene. It was called New...
Alan Skorkin
25 Sep 2013
Ruby
5 Reasons Why New Relic Is a Developer's Best Friend
Once you start digging around New Relic you begin to realise just how many interesting features the service has to help monitor the performance and health of...
Alan Skorkin
27 Sep 2013
Ruby
3 New Relic Power Features You Should Be Using Today
You already know that New Relic provides deep performance metrics for your Java, .NET, PHP, Python or Ruby application. But are you familiar with the power...
Chris Kelly
25 Jul 2012
General
New Relic & JMeter - Perfect Performance Testing
Following on from the great introductory articles featured recently on Nettuts+, this article looks to show how you can take New Relic to the next level. As...
David Sale
30 Sep 2013
Tools & Tips
Using New Relic Custom Metrics to Monitor All the Things
When you first get introduced to New Relic, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the features. But like with most tools, as you slowly climb the learning curve...
Alan Skorkin
30 Dec 2013
Ruby
How to Use New Relic Custom Dashboards & Why You'd Want To
Today we're going to look at New Relic custom dashboards. Specifically, I will show you three ways that I tend to use custom dashboards:
Alan Skorkin
27 Jan 2014
Tools & Tips
Using New Relic to Monitor Your Android App
In the last two years, New Relic has focused hard on building out a solution for monitoring the performance of mobile apps. In this tutorial, we will look at...
Alan Skorkin
26 Mar 2014
Mobile Development
How to Use New Relic With PHP & WordPress
Today we will look at how to monitor a PHP application using New Relic. More specifically we will set up a basic WordPress installation and get some...
Alan Skorkin
14 Apr 2014
Web Development
Optimizing Application Performance with New Relic for iOS
New Relic has gained name and fame for being the number one solution for monitoring application performance. It tells you what you need to know about your...
Bart Jacobs
29 Apr 2014
Mobile Development
Rapid Website Deployment With Django, Heroku & New Relic
Rapidly deploying websites has never been easier, or as affordable as it is now, when combining Django, Heroku, and New Relic. Follow along in this tutorial...
David Sale
27 Jun 2014
Web Development
Front-End Monitoring with New Relic Browser
The only monitoring product that gives you full visibility into the complete web page lifecycle of your actual users in modern browser-side applications.
Jeff Reifman
28 Oct 2014
New Relic
Using New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance
If you arrived here from the Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache tutorial, you already have a pretty well optimized WordPress installation....
Jeff Reifman
30 Sep 2014
WordPress
Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers
Today we will look at how to use New Relic to monitor your infrastructure (i.e. your production server) and why you'd want to.
Alan Skorkin
2 Jun 2014
Web Development
Introduction to New Relic Insights
For the first time ever, you can now ask questions about your software, customers, and business and get answers in milliseconds.
Jeff Reifman
13 Nov 2014
New Relic
Introduction to New Relic Synthetics
New Relic's newest service provides automated testing from locations around the world, alerting you to errors and slowdowns immediately when and where they...
Jeff Reifman
15 Jan 2015
Testing
Diagnose WordPress Performance Problems With New Relic
Understanding what makes WordPress fast or slow requires a broad understanding of web infrastructure, and New Relic makes finding problems within your...
Jeff Reifman
27 Feb 2015
PHP
Get Started With Monitoring Your Web Application Using New Relic Alerts
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create software alerts for your web-based application using New Relic's new Alerts system.
Jarkko Laine
2 Jul 2015
Web Development
How to Use New Relic Browser to Improve Your Web App's User Experience
In modern web applications, a big part of what the user sees, from page loading to actions triggered in JavaScript, happens inside a web browser rather than...
Jarkko Laine
23 Sep 2015
Web Development
How to Monitor Docker-Based Applications Using New Relic
Using Docker, you can separate parts of your application and deploy them confidently. At the same time, monitoring what happens inside these containers can...
Jarkko Laine
6 Oct 2015
Monitoring
How to Use New Relic Insights to Learn More About Your Customers
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use New Relic Insights to collect information about your web application's users and use it to build a customer...
Jarkko Laine
12 Nov 2015
New Relic