Synthetic monitoring is a suite of automated scriptable tools on the New Relic platform used to monitor websites, applications, critical business transactions, and API endpoints. If there is an error, failure, or anomaly affecting your customer-facing applications, then your synthetic check (i.e. monitor) will catch it and alert you before anyone is impacted.
Your number of free synthetic checks is based on the edition of New Relic:
- Free — 500 free checks/month
- Standard — 10k free checks/month
- Pro — 1M free checks/month
- Enterprise — 10M free checks/month
Important details
- The add-on rate of $.005 per additional check is for all non-ping monitors (see documentation).
- Ping monitors will be included as part of every New Relic edition at no extra cost.
- To increase the number of monthly synthetics checks without the add-on rate, you can upgrade your tier to help stay within included limits.
You can use one of the queries outlined here to easily check your synthetics usage.
Note: only non-ping monitor checks will be billed based on overages. All ping monitors will continue to be included as part of your New Relic edition at no additional cost.
For more, check out our docs page where we outline the usage plan, and review your current entitlement and usage so you have an understanding of how this may impact your usage and billing upon renewal.