New Relic
A Ruby agent for monitoring application performance and business data with New Relic.
What is New Relic?
New Relic Ruby agent is an open-source monitoring agent that instruments Ruby applications to collect performance metrics and business data. It helps developers identify performance issues, troubleshoot problems, and analyze customer experience data to make informed decisions.
Ruby developers and teams using Rails, Rack, or other Ruby frameworks who need application performance monitoring and business analytics.
It provides deep integration with New Relic's observability platform, supports multiple Ruby environments and frameworks, and offers both performance monitoring and business data collection in a single agent.
Overview
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Use Cases
Best For
- Monitoring Rails application performance in production
- Collecting custom business metrics from Ruby applications
- Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks in Ruby web apps
- Instrumenting background jobs and non-web Ruby processes
- Deploying Ruby applications on AWS Lambda or Heroku with monitoring
- Extending application observability beyond basic performance metrics
Not Ideal For
- Teams not using or unwilling to adopt the New Relic observability platform
- Applications where minimal instrumentation overhead is critical, such as high-frequency trading systems
- Projects already heavily invested in competing APM tools like Datadog or AppDynamics
- Development setups needing only local, lightweight debugging without cloud-based analytics
Pros & Cons
Pros
Works with Rails, Rack, and non-web applications, ensuring consistent monitoring across diverse Ruby environments, as detailed in the supported frameworks list.
Can be installed as a Gem or Rails plugin and supports AWS Lambda, Heroku, and other platforms, making it adaptable to various deployment scenarios.
Extends beyond performance metrics to collect custom business data, enabling detailed analysis of customer experience and business decisions.
Includes NRDiag for automated diagnostics and offers multiple support channels, reducing downtime and simplifying issue resolution.
Cons
Tightly coupled with New Relic's proprietary platform, requiring a New Relic account and potentially limiting flexibility if switching providers.
Non-web applications require manual startup calls and additional configuration, which can be more involved than standard web app setups.
Instrumentation adds latency, which might impact performance-critical applications, a trade-off for detailed monitoring data.
Frequently Asked Questions
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