New Relic Web Application Monitoring

New Relic is the operations tool that developers love and for Rackspace Cloud customers we provide New Relic Standard free of charge. It is an on-demand web application performance management solution that lets application development and deployment teams combine real-user monitoring with server monitoring and deep, app-level visibility inside production Ruby, PHP, Java, Python, JRuby or .NET apps deployed in a cloud or in a datacenter. Sign-up, installation and configuration take two minutes, and New Relic’s intuitive interface eliminates the learning curve. New Relic provides performance metrics for all user request as well as application monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause diagnosis, and production Java thread profiling. In addition, New Relic provides pro-active planning tools such as alerts, capacity planning, scalability analysis, database usage analysis, Apdex scoring, and deployment history. More than 14,000 companies around the world use New Relic to ensure superior service for their critical apps.

Key Advantages:

• Multi-language support: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, Python and .NET
• Enterprise-class functionality including
  • Real user monitoring including performance of all end-user page requests.
  • Server monitoring including metrics on CPU usage, physical memory, network activity, load averages, and more.
  • Rich monitoring of application performance and response time down to the level of individual transactions.
  • Tracing through the entire stack of application functionality down to individual application components, classes, methods, and more. Including the calls into the back end database.
• Simple product delivery via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model
• Zero acquisition cost for Rackspace Cloud customers
• Rapid time to value. New Relic works when first installed with no configuration required
• Just create an account on the New Relic web site and in 2 minutes you are ready to go!

Real World Use Cases

SaaS

Zurb Delivers High-Performance Web Apps with Real Time Performance Data Provided by New Relic
When your business is designing and building web apps, performance is crucial for maintaining leadership. ZURB couldn’t afford to let app slowdowns degrade the user experience. Needing fast, comprehensive performance results to avoid any potential negative user experience impacts, ZURB turned to New Relic, which they were able to implement in minutes.

Corporate Website

IGN Entertainment Turns to New Relic to Manage the Performance of Its Network of Online Properties
With highly-interactive sites that require frequent updates and deployments, IGN sought a solution that could help monitor application performance 24×7, while enabling team members to collaboratively identify and troubleshoot potential bottlenecks. Since it’s adoption of New Relic to monitor application performance, IGN has been able to speed application deployments, improve response time for its sites, and scale to ensure superior performance during traffic spikes and peak usage.

E-Commerce

Groupon Must Always Be Ready for Spikes in Traffic and Monitoring App Performance is Mission Critical
Growth for Groupon translates into traffic bursts on the site that on any given day can double or triple the normal traffic. The team turned to New Relic to keep an eye on the health and availability of Groupon.com. With New Relic the team at Groupon can quickly dive into individual transactions to see a performance breakdown component by component.