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Understand and use Maps

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We're still working on this feature, but we'd love for you to try it out!

This feature is currently provided as part of a preview program pursuant to our pre-release policies. The public preview includes access to Auto-Discovery and Transaction 360, bundled together. Having opted into the preview, you gain access to all three capabilities at no cost; opting out of the preview applies to all three as well.

Maps provides a unified and integrated view of your cloud estate, allowing seamless navigation and exploration of services and infrastructure. It integrates tracing, infrastructure, and performance data into a cohesive experience, addressing limitations of other map experiences.

Service map vs. Maps

Feature

Service map

Maps

Focus

View one service at a time.

Gain a comprehensive view of multiple services, enhancing overall system understanding.

Navigation

Navigate through individual services

Explore the entire cloud topology, including AWS resources, from a holistic view of the entities and their relationships.

Grouping

Not available

Organize entities in multi-level grouping for simplified visualization and management.

Clustering

Not available

Automatically group nodes to declutter the map, making complex environments simple and manageable.

Infrastructure visibility

Limited context on infrastructure.

Directly inspect AWS and cloud resources, providing deeper insights into infrastructure support.

Service relationships

See direct interactions between services.

Understand complex interactions, including bypass relationships, for better dependency management.

Health status summary

Basic health indicators

Filter services by health status to focus on critical, degraded, or uninstrumented services.

Customization

Basic appearance settings

Tailor map view and edge styles to suit specific needs, improving clarity and focus.

Maps is available only to the Advanced Compute customers. To enroll, navigate to one.newrelic.com > Administration > Preview & Trials, and enroll for New experiences: Maps, Transaction 360, and Auto-Discovery.

Map components

Get familiar with the components of Maps, which visualize the relationships within your services, resources, and teams, and show their health status.

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one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > APM & Services: Maps view.

Component

Description

Focal node

The entity from which you open the map. It serves as the reference point for visualizing relationships with other entities one depth away. Select the focal node to get the comprehensive view of the entity details on the right pane.

Connected nodes

The connected nodes are entities that have a direct relationship with the focal node. They appear one depth away from the focal node.

  • Inbound nodes: These nodes send data to the focal node and appear to the left and top of the focal node in the default view.

  • Outbound nodes: These nodes receive data from the focal node and appear to the right and bottom of the focal node in the default view.

    Select a node to get the comprehensive view of the entity details on the right panel. To open the map of that node, from the Related entities section in the right panel, click See full map.

Edges

Edges illustrate the inbound and outbound relationships between nodes. Point to an edge to view the relationship type and the data flow direction.

You can change the edge style from the Map View Settings panel by using the Edge Path Type drop-down.

Zoom in, Zoom out, and Center and reset zoom

Adjust the map view by zooming in and out or centering and resetting the zoom level. If nodes are outside the main viewport, the map thumbnail provides a compact overview to help navigate and locate the nodes.

Health status summary

The Health status summary provides a quick overview of node statuses, using color-coded indicators and counts to help you identify areas requiring attention. You can instrument uninstrumented nodes directly from the staus summary.

Clusters

Cluster is the logical grouping of nodes that simplify the map by consolidating related nodes. A cluster forms when at least 10 nodes:

  • Share the same parent node.

  • Have the same relationship type.

  • Belong to the same entity domain and type.

  • Exhibit the same dependencies (inbound or outbound).

    A cluster displays the number of nodes it contains, and the color of the cluster depends on the health status of the nodes within.

  • Red: At least one critical node

  • Yellow: At least one degraded node but no critical nodes

  • Green: All nodes are operational

    Select a cluster to view the nodes in the right panel of the map. Reveal nodes from the panel to display them individually on the map outside the cluster.

Map entry points

Maps provides a consistent mapping experience accessible through various entry points. Depending on the type of entity you select to explore, separate views are available to show services, teams, infrastructure resources, or dynamic data flows. This unified approach offers clear insights into service interactions, infrastructure dependencies, team operations, and data flows.

Important

Maps with Distributed tracing and Auto-Discovery provides unified relationships between entities. While Maps remains functional even if you haven't enabled Distributed tracing or Auto-Discovery, enabling these features is recommended for a more impactful and consistent experience.

Use Maps

With the features and components of Maps, you can explore and manage your cloud environment in the following ways:

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