Release performance monitoring with New Relic

One of the most important events to track in any monitoring is a release; this can be anything from a software release, through to server upgrades and anything in between. New Relic allows you to add these as reportable elements, allowing you to perform before and after performance reporting. Using the release monitoring you can take the guesswork out of the effectiveness of a release and this allows you to use empirical data to judge if a release was good.

New Relic offers an API to record a release, allowing you to integrate your automated release tools, configuration management, and others. Using the New Relic API, you should be able to ensure that any automated process can register the release. ...

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