Monitoring your infrastructure can be daunting. Gathering the data from your servers, databases, cloud platforms, and hosted services is only the first task, and once you've set all that up, you still need to find ways to make sense of it all.
That's where New Relic comes in. Not only do our guided installs and pre-configured dashboards and alerts help you get up and running quickly, our tools will help you proactively troubleshoot and improve your infrastructure. Whether you want to view one host or one thousand, you can do everything you need from one central location without having to hunt for the data you need.
Your infrastructure monitoring solution
New Relic makes it easy for you to see what's going on inside your infrastructure, whether it runs in the cloud or dedicated hosts. In Datadog, you may be familiar with these capabilities as agents, and we call the same infrastructure capabilities agents at New Relic as well. Here's how we organize our infrastructure agents and integrations:
- Infrastructure agents for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems with guided and manual install options
- An agent for for Kubernetes
- Cloud agents for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform that you can install independently of our infrastructure agents
- On-host integration agents for services like MySQL, Apache, Docker, and Kafka that work together with our infrastructure agent to maximize your data reporting
As long as your system and on-host integrations meet our minimum requirements, all you need to try is a free New Relic account and you can start right away.
Get started with New Relic infrastructure monitoring
Your infrastructure data in New Relic is located in the one.newrelic.com > Infrastructure section of the UI, exactly the same as Datadog. The fastest way to get an infrastructure monitor up and running can be done through our guided installation path, which you can find within one.newrelic.com by selecting Add Data > All > Guided install.
Select the New Relic account you want to monitor your infrastructure data.
Select Windows under the Auto-discovery section.
Select Begin installation.
New Relic will provide a command for you to run on your Windows system. Just copy the command, open Powershell as an administrator, paste and run the command, and you're done!
Select the New Relic account you want to monitor your infrastructure data.
Select Linux under the Auto-discovery section.
Select Begin installation.
New Relic will provide a command for you to run on your Linux host. Just copy, paste, and run the command on your host, answer the prompts, and you're done!
Select the New Relic account you want to monitor your infrastructure data.
Select macOS under the Auto-discovery section.
Select Begin installation.
New Relic will provide a command for you to run on your macOS host. Just copy, paste, and run the command on your host, answer the prompts, and you're done!
Select the New Relic account you want to monitor your infrastructure data.
Select Kubernetes under the Auto-discovery section.
Select Begin installation.
The guided install will take you through the Kubernetes implementation process. Follow the prompts and you'll be all set. If you need any help, see our Kubernetes installation guide
Select the New Relic account you want to monitor your infrastructure data.
Select Docker under the Auto-discovery section.
Select Begin installation.
New Relic will provide a command for you to run on your host. Copy, paste, and run the command, and you're done!
New Relic also offers a whole suite of on-host integrations. From one.newrelic.com > Add Data > Infrastructure & OS, just select your desired integration from our list to get started.
Explore premade dashboards
New Relic provides out-of-the-box dashboards from the moment you set up an infrastructure integration. These dashboards are pre-configured, allowing you to begin visualizing your data with zero setup time.
Some of the most important areas that our infrastructure dashboards automatically cover are:
- Event data for your hosts, including metric data, the ability to filter by host, and notifications about your system health under the Hosts tab.
- Entries for any applications you choose to integrate under the Inventory tab.
- Granular details for each event under the Events tab, filterable by agents, alerts, and integrations with a single click.
- Access to your application based integrations, like AWS and Azure, accessible in one click from the sidebar.
- Easily open up the settings pages for your Agents and Alerts from the sidebar without having to leave the dashboard.
Add preconfigured alerts
Go to one.newrelic.com > Add Data > Infrastructure & OS, then select the Alerts tab. You'll see a list of preset alerts to choose from. Once you add one to your account, you can customize the conditions to whatever you need them to be. Just select the option you want, add your account, plug-in your data with our guided install, and you'll be set! For more information on setting up premade alerts, see our documentation on adding dashboards and alerts.