They call it an "open platform". I don't get it -- what part of their platform is open? The plugins are open source, but that's not their platform.
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#12This has been my main project for months - I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks.
Why didn't you go with statsd or graphite? You would have gotten a lot of bindings with that.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does that mean about pay service? Is that now free? Am I missing the distinction between what's on the linked page and the normal webapp monitoring service?
It looks like the main reason to pay is for data retention -- otherwise the free service only gives you 24 hours of data. IIRC that was also the distinction between the previous services New Relic offered, free for 24 hours, pay for more.
Old (?) free accounts did not have full analysis tools - you could not break down slow requests etc. with Java monitoring, only see the average response time over a time range.
Re: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data
#14They call it an "open platform". I don't get it -- what part of their platform is open? The plugins are open source, but that's not their platform.
The part where you can send arbitrary data to them is the part of the platform that is "open".
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there pricing information available yet? I only see pricing for web app/mobile app.
it's all free!
Using, authoring, and publishing plugins is free. If you have a paid New Relic account, all this goodness costs $0 extra - same if you have a free New Relic account.
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#17Boy am I glad I didn't sign an expensive contract with New Relic recently.
Funny. Signing a big contract with New Relic is one of the best things my company has done in the last few years. With very little work, our application monitoring got about 100 times better. Worth every penny.
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#18This has been my main project for months - I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks.
Why didn't you go with statsd or graphite? You would have gotten a lot of bindings with that.
Try a New Relic plugin and you'll find out why ;)
The experience of adding monitoring with a New Relic plugin should be MUCH better than with any other monitoring approach.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does that mean about pay service? Is that now free? Am I missing the distinction between what's on the linked page and the normal webapp monitoring service?
As far as I can tell it is an addition to the normal monitoring? I can download the plugins via their standard dashboard.
Correct, this is a new feature, in addition to all our existing features. This feature is available at all plan levels, but some other New Relic features require a paid plan.
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#20Not had much luck with the two plugins I've tried to install so far:
1. The Nginx plugin has a broken init.d script. Not the end of the world, but hardly a plug and play solution.
2. The Varnish plugin download is behind a self-signed SSL certificate (which is for a different domain no less). Furthermore the Gems it requires are loaded from a GitHub repository that is no longer available to the public. There simply doesn't seem to be a way to get this plugin installed.
The install process and software requirements for the plugins also appear to be wildly different. It would be incredible if New Relic provided the ability to install plugins over the command line from a central repository - something as basic as `newrelic install $plugin_name` would be ideal.
I really hope that these issues are worked out as I think this platform has real potential. It's just unfortunate that the quality of the plugins appears to be far from production ready.