Chapter 12. Application Performance Monitoring with New Relic

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Signing up for a New Relic account
  • Installing the New Relic Java agent
  • Using the performance overview
  • Locating performance bottlenecks with Transaction Traces
  • Observing database performance with New Relic
  • Release performance monitoring with New Relic
  • Server Monitoring with New Relic

Introduction

Monitoring is a key part of running any system, from the smallest to the largest; however, monitoring takes many forms. We covered application monitoring in Chapter 10, Monitoring with Sensu and those recipes demonstrated how to set up monitoring for application faults. Fault monitoring is only one part of the picture; however, for a true reflection ...

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