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What it's New Relic???

id 12y ago
A company based in San Francisco that offers monitoring of web and mobile applications. I know them because I block their scripts.
Donzo 12y ago
I use New Relic. They provide, IMHO, fantastic realtime server monitoring functions. You can tell if the hypervisor is stealing from your allocation, how many resources you are using, and other useful information. All of this is displayed on nice looking graphs and such. They also give you downtime notifications if your server goes offline for more than a few minutes. Not only is the service free, but they give you a free T-shirt. They have application monitoring tools as well, which they are monetizing. I'm very happy with the product. What's Ducksboard?
- patio11 12y ago
  What's Ducksboard? Think like the Panic dashboard but reconfigurable with as many data sources as Zapier supports APIs.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
    Uh, ok, what's Ducksboard, what's Panic dashboard and what's Zapier?
    - swartkrans 12y ago
      I am not sure if HN is for you. These are well known companies in this sphere and barring that a quick Google search would answer these questions but obviously you are just making a reddit style joke post that also has no place here.
      - SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
        I'm semi-serious. I know NewRelic, as we use it at work and it's good. I don't know those other products, so the "explanation" didn't explain anything to me. Comments HN excel (sometimes) at distilling the merits of using these products in a way that press releases that a google search finds really do not. I'm sorry if you didn't like the terse and flippant way that I expressed that. Thanks for the vote of confidence, though. I see that your account is less than a month old (hint: click on the user name and you can see the same about me).
- kawsper 12y ago
  What I don't like about New Relic is their pricing model. I don't like to be paying for each appserver connected. We are constantly adding and removing servers based on our traffic, and with something like New Relic we need to renegotiate or change contract if we suddenly needs a lot of servers. Pay by metric, pay by request etc. is fairer in my eyes. If I have 10 servers connnected and send 1 request-per-minute I still pay for having 10 servers connected. If they process 1 request from me it shouldn't matter whether or not I have 1 or 10 servers connected, I should only pay for what they process. The reason I am not using NewRelic personally is that my infrastructure is 5 linodes, which I pay $20 for each server. And with NewRelic Pro I have to pay $149 per host. I have seen people doing tricks like only enabling NewRelic for certain hosts just to get around their pricing model. I really like New Relic, and its very pleasant to use their service, they give good insight about your application, I just wish I could afford their service.
  - markab21 12y ago
    Their pricing models make even less sense when you’re using docker containers for deployments. With that said, I’ve used their services for years and without question for my group the monitoring pays for itself in improved efficiency of developers and operations. Last year we moved from the free service to the enterprise service that gives us 12 app-servers (in our case 12 deployed Rails docker-Containers) for about $500 a month. We have docker nodes that spin up and down frequently for one of the rails apps we use for monitoring and it can at times create what appears to be more instances than what we physically have. Their free service I believe is good enough for many use cases, and you can monitor an unlimited number of hosts/services outside of the “application” monitoring. I looked at scout and a few other monitoring services, and as much as I like their pricing model, the product just doesn’t compare to new-relic.
  - ericcholis 12y ago
    I agree, New Relic's pricing model is almost too "enterprise". Per host pricing seems high, and difficult to scale. It's too bad, because I love everything else they offer. I'm even considering the new Insights service. I think they need to introduce a mid-tier pricing level between Free and Pro. They've got a good foothold in the market as a all-in-one solution. I've attempted to find a drop-in replacement, without much luck. It's difficult to find a one-for-one service, but here's some similar services with entry-level pricing: DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/): $15/host/month up to 100 hosts. Scout (https://scoutapp.com/subscriptions https://scoutapp.com/subscriptions): $10/host/month CopperEgg (http://copperegg.com/pricing/ http://copperegg.com/pricing/): A la carte depending on service Stackify (http://www.stackify.com/pricing/ http://www.stackify.com/pricing/): $15/host/month The biggest feature that I need is application level monitoring for PHP. There's plenty of great server monitoring tools, but not many services that track application performance like New Relic does. I know there's plenty of ways to replicate New Relic, but who has the time? Of course, I could be completely wrong, and missing a great alternative service.
ceejayoz 12y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=new+relic https://www.google.com/search?q=new+relic

id 12y ago

A company based in San Francisco that offers monitoring of web and mobile applications. I know them because I block their scripts.

Donzo 12y ago

I use New Relic. They provide, IMHO, fantastic realtime server monitoring functions. You can tell if the hypervisor is stealing from your allocation, how many resources you are using, and other useful information. All of this is displayed on nice looking graphs and such. They also give you downtime notifications if your server goes offline for more than a few minutes. Not only is the service free, but they give you a free T-shirt. They have application monitoring tools as well, which they are monetizing. I'm very happy with the product. What's Ducksboard?

patio11 12y ago
What's Ducksboard? Think like the Panic dashboard but reconfigurable with as many data sources as Zapier supports APIs.
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
  Uh, ok, what's Ducksboard, what's Panic dashboard and what's Zapier?
  - swartkrans 12y ago
    I am not sure if HN is for you. These are well known companies in this sphere and barring that a quick Google search would answer these questions but obviously you are just making a reddit style joke post that also has no place here.
    - SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
      I'm semi-serious. I know NewRelic, as we use it at work and it's good. I don't know those other products, so the "explanation" didn't explain anything to me. Comments HN excel (sometimes) at distilling the merits of using these products in a way that press releases that a google search finds really do not. I'm sorry if you didn't like the terse and flippant way that I expressed that. Thanks for the vote of confidence, though. I see that your account is less than a month old (hint: click on the user name and you can see the same about me).
kawsper 12y ago
What I don't like about New Relic is their pricing model. I don't like to be paying for each appserver connected. We are constantly adding and removing servers based on our traffic, and with something like New Relic we need to renegotiate or change contract if we suddenly needs a lot of servers. Pay by metric, pay by request etc. is fairer in my eyes. If I have 10 servers connnected and send 1 request-per-minute I still pay for having 10 servers connected. If they process 1 request from me it shouldn't matter whether or not I have 1 or 10 servers connected, I should only pay for what they process. The reason I am not using NewRelic personally is that my infrastructure is 5 linodes, which I pay $20 for each server. And with NewRelic Pro I have to pay $149 per host. I have seen people doing tricks like only enabling NewRelic for certain hosts just to get around their pricing model. I really like New Relic, and its very pleasant to use their service, they give good insight about your application, I just wish I could afford their service.
- markab21 12y ago
  Their pricing models make even less sense when you’re using docker containers for deployments. With that said, I’ve used their services for years and without question for my group the monitoring pays for itself in improved efficiency of developers and operations. Last year we moved from the free service to the enterprise service that gives us 12 app-servers (in our case 12 deployed Rails docker-Containers) for about $500 a month. We have docker nodes that spin up and down frequently for one of the rails apps we use for monitoring and it can at times create what appears to be more instances than what we physically have. Their free service I believe is good enough for many use cases, and you can monitor an unlimited number of hosts/services outside of the “application” monitoring. I looked at scout and a few other monitoring services, and as much as I like their pricing model, the product just doesn’t compare to new-relic.
- ericcholis 12y ago
  I agree, New Relic's pricing model is almost too "enterprise". Per host pricing seems high, and difficult to scale. It's too bad, because I love everything else they offer. I'm even considering the new Insights service. I think they need to introduce a mid-tier pricing level between Free and Pro. They've got a good foothold in the market as a all-in-one solution. I've attempted to find a drop-in replacement, without much luck. It's difficult to find a one-for-one service, but here's some similar services with entry-level pricing: DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/): $15/host/month up to 100 hosts. Scout (https://scoutapp.com/subscriptions https://scoutapp.com/subscriptions): $10/host/month CopperEgg (http://copperegg.com/pricing/ http://copperegg.com/pricing/): A la carte depending on service Stackify (http://www.stackify.com/pricing/ http://www.stackify.com/pricing/): $15/host/month The biggest feature that I need is application level monitoring for PHP. There's plenty of great server monitoring tools, but not many services that track application performance like New Relic does. I know there's plenty of ways to replicate New Relic, but who has the time? Of course, I could be completely wrong, and missing a great alternative service.

ceejayoz 12y ago

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+relic https://www.google.com/search?q=new+relic