Easy webservers and application monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
NewRelic is very easy to install on Ubuntu systems, only a view simple steps are required. The NR client is very stable and in my experience it never stopped working. While I'm using the free version, NR helps me to identify problems an all my servers.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't use NR for PHP application monitoring, because the reported memory usage isn't correct if you use PHP-FPM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The server monitoring is great, I'm always informed about the status of my server status and NR has helped me several times to locate the problem.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Play with the different levels for the triggers for the alert policies. It helped me a lot to get alerts under different circumstances.
Very good service monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
It has extensive monitoring for servers & applications. Especially the monitoring of errors is very good & usefull.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface of New Relic is quite complicated. To find certain possiblities & parts within new relic can be quite challenging. Still some work is needed in the "user friendliness" part.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to see if our servers have enough capacity to run our daily web applications.
Best free moniroting tool - easy to set up
What do you like best about the product?
This is really easy to set up and it provides a really good monitoring service which allows to keep an eye on every services, for free too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Prices are rather high when you want to go to a premium service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is really helpful for keeping an eye on both the server, the application, the database (and the queries made from the application on the database). It can help to identify slow queries, bottleneck in application, traffic charge, server disk IO and a lot of other items.
When my application was running slowly, it really helped me to identify what's wrong.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a full monitoring server for your server, your application and even your users browser performances.
An overall great performance metric reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
The monthly performance reports are great for when you don't need to be directly involved in all aspects of web dev and are just supervising. Metrics are comprehensive and broken down into easily digestible chunks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since i haven't used any competitive products I'm not too sure. It's met all of my expectations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use New Relic to monitor all our live web sites/forums/apps.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great tool to monitor your live apps and tracing features when needed.
Easy to use and install
Super easy to launch and install. I would recommend it if you would like to get your AWS stats into New Relic quick and easily.
Simple, easy to install, and provides a lot of insight
This same AMI/Application supports all of the AWS plugins that NewRelic offers, SQS, SNS, EC2, ELB, RDS... My only complaint is that you HAVE to input your credentials directly into the user data, it won't take an EC2 Role.
Almost perfect
It is almost perfect. It was so easy to launch but then the instructions about setting user data didn't match with what I could see and ultimately I had to spend an hour finding where to add my config (AWS keys and New Relic key.)
If the instructions were updated, OR even better, if there was a config.sh script you could just run if you were forced to ssh in then this would have 5 stars.
Easy to get up and running
As long as the steps are followed, this is a super easy setup to get up and running. I mainly used the AMI for monitoring out RDS instance. The not so good thing was that I had to recreate the instance twice because I had the wrong configuration. This was a little annoying as I had to destroy and recreate the instance but once you have the knack it's an easy process.
