New Relic enables free public access to live RPM session. Take RPM for a Test Drive and see what it can do!
25 February 2010 at 10:20 am | In Java, New & Noteworthy, News, Product Update, Rails, Testing | Leave a CommentTry RPM on a real app in production
Want to test drive RPM on a real app — one that’s not your own? Now you can. Recently we deployed a live web app on EC2 and enabled RPM to manage it. Then we created a “guest-access” mode so that anyone could use RPM to monitor that real app. Guest Access allows you to use all of RPM’s monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing features. Now you can try RPM, just like you would on your own web application, to monitor performance, identify trouble spots, and drill down into transactions to see what’s really going on. We invite you to take RPM for a spin and spend as much time as you like seeing what it’s capable of.
RPM has a rich set of features. Here are some suggestions for getting started when you use the Test Drive:
- Troubleshooting Tab: A good starting point. View application health and availability at a glance.
- Web Transactions: Begin your investigation of problem spots by determining what types of transactions need improvement.
- Transaction Traces: Drill down into individual transactions. Find problems in the stack trace and SQL statements.
- Optimize Tab: RPM’s tools for long term planning and optimization.
- Custom Views: Create your own dashboards tailored for your business.
- Notes: Share your observations with your team. Capture a graph, add your thoughts, and send a link to your team.
Try New Relic RPM on your app!
After you take the Test Drive using Guest-Access and find out why hundreds of companies like yours have chosen RPM to manage their critical web applications, you can try RPM on your own application for free, with no obligation. Just select the sign up button (can’t miss it — it’s that big red button at the top) in the demo to try our free product, RPM Lite, or visit our web site, determine which subscription level is right for you, and sign up. Either way, you’re just two minutes from learning more about your production application’s performance than ever before.
Support for Sinatra, Rack, and Metals now available in RPM Ruby Agent 2.10. Plus more cool features…
24 February 2010 at 9:12 am | In Cloud Computing, New & Noteworthy, Product Update, Rails | 6 CommentsGreat news! The newest version of the RPM Ruby Agent, 2.10, is available for download. We have also added new features in RPM for both Java and Ruby apps. We’ve included a description below of some of the new capabilities. Get the new agent by selecting the Upgrade banner in RPM, or at GitHub where you’ll find the the product download as well as the latest product documentation. Without further ado, here’s what new:
Sinatra, Rack, and Rails Metal Support
We’re pleased to add support for Rack, Sinatra and Rails Metals in this release. For each of these technologies, New Relic instruments a call method as if it were a controller action, collecting transaction traces and errors. This enables deep, real-time visibility into Ruby web apps that take advantage of these solutions.
For Rack and Metal instrumentation details, see the Agent Rack API documentation.
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne discusses “How Apdex Reveals User Frustration with Your Web Experience.”
17 February 2010 at 10:53 am | In Did You Know, Java, News, Performance Tuning | Leave a CommentRecently our vp of engineering Jim Gochee posted a blog about our successful effort to improve the performance of our flagship product New Relic RPM. Reading how Jim and team used Apdex as a key metric for measuring the before-and-after effects of the optimization effort got me to thinking just how important Apdex has become to our business over the past year.
Way back when we initially introduced RPM as the first SaaS-based application performance management tool, we got a lot of great feedback from our customers in the Ruby community. (We only supported Ruby then; we now also support Java.) Ruby developers are such a shy and retiring bunch that we practically had to pry their opinions out of them. (Ok, not really.) One of the comments we got went something like “you know, measuring average response time and throughput is great, but averages sometime hide the fact that some of my transactions are really slow and affect customer experience. You ought to measure Apdex scores.” We looked into it, liked what we saw, and said “You’re right, we should.” Fast forward to now, and Apdex has become an essential component of RPM and a critical metric for measuring our service levels and business goals.
Rails3 BugMash RPM Gold Winner is WMNF Radio
16 February 2010 at 9:30 am | In Events, News, RPM in the News | Leave a Comment
WMNF is a community radio station in Tampa, Florida (and available online at www.WMNF.org.) Community radio is commercial-free and listener supported, which pretty much means they are always in need of financial help. WMNF plays eclectic music — jazz, blues, rock, polka, bluegrass, and lots else — and independent, progressive news and public affairs programming.
Matt Cowley is a part-time staffer at WMNF and is a Rails developer. As Matt says “I’m half-time staff at WMNF as the web manager, and built their site using Ruby on Rails. I’m also a freelance developer. My lame coding blog is at http://www.madcowley.com/madcode.”
Matt took part in the RailsBridge Rails3 BugMash a couple weeks ago. RailsBridge is a project put together by Mike Gunderloy, Dana Jones, Sarah Mei, Sarah Allen, Michael Breen, Eric Davis, and Sam Elliott to foster and support a sense of community with Rails. The BugMash was in support of Rails3, the major release of Rails in beta and due for GA any day now.
To support the BugMash effort, New Relic offered a prize of one year of RPM Gold for one of the participants chosen at random by RailsBridge. The lucky winner was Matt Cowley and he has donated the prize to WMNF. Great gesture Matt and congratulations to WMNF Radio. Rock on!
Twitter addresses are @wmnf and @madcowley.
RPM Silver/Gold subscribers: new Transaction Summary shows all web transaction types and their metrics in one view
2 February 2010 at 4:50 pm | In News, Performance Tuning, Product Update | Leave a Comment
Subscribers of RPM Silver and Gold will see we’ve added a new view of web transactions called the Web Transaction Summary Page. It’s pretty informative and we think you’ll find it very useful. All paid subscriptions get the Web Transactions page. When you click on the Web Transactions tab, you currently see a rollup of worst-offending transactions with associated graphs on the right side. You can sort these transactions types by throughput, slowest response time, most frequently called, etc.
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