Start using New Relic

New Relic is an observability platform that helps you build better software. You can bring in data from any digital source so that you can fully understand your system, analyze that data efficiently, and respond to incidents before they become problems. As extensive as the capablities of New Relic are, you can get started with the platform by following a three-step procedure.

Need some inspiration first? Check out this intro video.

Otherwise, let's get you started:

Step 1 of 6

Does your organization already have New Relic but you're just adding a new team or project? See Add a new account.

Step 2 of 6

Ingest some data

Our guided install auto-discovers your environment, and walks you through a recommended setup. When the infrastructure agent and agent are installed, log data is usually also reported (although sometimes manual configuration is necessary).

Watch a video of using the guided install..

Manual installation:

If you prefer or require a more manual approach (for example, if you need to deploy at scale), see the options below.

Use our application performance monitoring (APM) monitoring to learn about your web or non-web application's performance. We support apps for several programming languages:

C
Go
Java
.NET
For Windows .NET applications on IIS, use our guided install in New Relic to get started with APM.
If you're on an EU server, use our launcher for EU accounts instead.
Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby

Browser monitoring in New Relic measures full page life cycle and session data, such as popularity and user satisfaction (Apdex) by page, JavaScript error analytics, interaction events, AJAX requests, etc.

See browser monitoring install.

We provide flexible, dynamic observability of your entire infrastructure, from a datacenter to thousands of Amazon, Google Cloud, or Azure instances, or containers running in orchestrated environments. Learn the health and performance of all your hosts with application context and logs.

Linux guided install for infrastructure monitoring
Linux procedures for infrastructure monitoring
Windows
Kubernetes
Prometheus
On-host integrations (for services like NGINX, StatsD, MySQL, etc.)
AWS cloud integrations
Azure cloud integrations
Google Cloud Platform

We offer a fast, scalable log management platform so you can connect your logs with the rest of your telemetry and infrastructure data in a single place.

Enable log management with APM logs in context, our infrastructure agent, or other log forwarding solutions.
Explore relevant log data across your platform, including errors, distributed traces, hosts, and more.
Use our logs UI to find meaninful patterns in your logs, attributes, patterns, live-tail logging, and queries. Not only that, you can add alerts conditions, query your log data, and create to share with colleagues.

Analyze your Android and iOS application performance, and troubleshoot crashes:

Understanding “Is it the network?” begins with collecting network telemetry and using the power of the New Relic platform to navigate and explore each unique telemetry type.

Don't know where to start? Check out the guided deployment wizard.

Already know what telemetry you want to add? Start here with Instant Observability.

If you want to send us telemetry data from other open source tools, check out these options:

See more options for reporting custom data from any source.

Synthetic monitoring allows you to proactively monitor your website or API endpoint to make sure your content is fully functional. Send scripted browser tests to your site from locations all around the world to verify your content is always up, everywhere.

Synthetic monitoring doesn't require installation, except for its private minions feature.

If our more curated agents and integrations don't provide what you need, we give you access to APIs and SDKs that let you report data from any source. Learn more.

Step 3 of 6

Check out some dashboards

Now that you've got some data coming in, it's time to explore your environment in real time with some out-of-the-box UI views. You should see data in the Infrastructure, APM, and Logs UI pages. If you don't see that, revisit the install instructions or see Not seeing data.

Some tips on understanding those UI pages and more:

Video: An intro to the platform (2:20)
APM UI
Infrastructure UI
Logs UI
Distributed tracing UI
Service maps
Want to build your own dashboards? To build charts, you'll need to learn to query your data.

Step 4 of 6

Add more data

If you need data from other sources, choose from our hundreds of integrations.

Step 5 of 6

Set up alerting

Want to get notifications for issues?

Set up your first alert.
Learn about important alerting concepts
Note that some of the quickstarts come with alerts already set up.

Step 6 of 6

Add users

You're now ready to add the rest of your team to New Relic. Use the User management UI to add users. To learn about the different types of users, see User type. See our tutorial on adding users and managing user access.

Next steps

Now that you're set up with New Relic, learn how to solve your app's performance issues with our My app is slow tutorial.

To troubleshoot install issues, see New Relic Diagnostics.
To set up a strong observability foundation, see our implementation guide, which will walk you through installing and understanding more observability tools and features.
Learn about how billing works
Get some tips on using New Relic. Some options:
- Get a tour of the platform
- Our Nerd Bytes YouTube channel for helpful how-to videos
- New Relic University for in-depth training

If you're on our Free edition, you don't have access to our global technical support service. To get 24-7 support, upgrade to a paid edition. Alternatively, use our community forum to ask questions and see answers.

If you don't see your technologies or tasks listed here, see the complete list at New Relic Instant Observability. You'll find integrations bundled into quickstarts, providing you instant access to pre-built dashboards and alerts specific to your technology.

Once you have data coming into New Relic, learn more about the New Relic UI or set up alerts. If you're curious about pricing, we have a blog post set up to help you with cost estimation.