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New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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Re: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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Post by silentdragon »

mattkirman wrote: post #20

Not 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 d…

I just got around to installing both of those plugins. I hacked up their provided init script to work with Debian standards. You can see the issue on github: https://github.com/MeetMe/newrelic-plugin-agent/issues/7

As for the varnish plugin I had to edit the gemfile to have

  gem "newrelic_plugin", :git => "git://github.com/newrelic-platform/newrelic_plugin.git", :tag => 'release/0.2.11'
It would be fantastic if it eventually got as simple as their PHP plugin or regular monitoring is to install.

Re: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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Post by kawsper »

coopr wrote: post #18
kawsper wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I still need to rewrite all my statsd/graphite implementations.

Could you tell me what differs in your solution, and why it is better? And why you didn't choose Graphite/Carbon or statsd?

Re: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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Post by miketheman »

It's a step in the right direction - integrating a variety of information sources has always been a key component of our product, Datadog. http://www.datadog.com

It's very important to bring the relevant numbers together to get a cohesive view of the current state, as well as be able to correlate between sources to paint the bigger picture.

Re: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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Post by timjahn »

I see they have a SendGrid plugin. I'm looking to track our SendGrid email traffic more in a more granular manner and for longer than native SendGrid supports (they only store for a few days).

Does SendGrid via New Relic mean they provide more granular tracking and longer term storage?

Re: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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Post by coopr »

timjahn wrote: post #28

I see they have a SendGrid plugin. I'm looking to track our SendGrid email traffic more in a more granular manner and for longer than native SendGrid supports (they only store for a few days). Does SendGrid via New Relic mean they provide more granular tracking and longer term storage?

Longer term - yes: See data retention details here http://newrelic.com/pricing2 (and note that you can get a free New Relic Standard account here http://newrelic.com/sendgrid

More granular - no: The SendGrid plugin presents roughly the same data you could access via the SendGrid API (at least AFAIK).

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