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Living on the Edge with Rails 4 & Ruby 2

RailsConf 2013 is right around the corner! And to celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog post that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby support. Don’t forget to check out the entire series so far: Cross Application Tracing and Thread Profiling. We want New Relic’s Ruby agent to work [...]

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Thread Profiling: See Exactly What Your App Is Doing

RailsConf 2013 is right around the corner! And to celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog post that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby support. Don’t forget to check out yesterday’s post on Cross Application Tracing. New Relic tries to bubble up the most significant performance data from your [...]

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Cross App Tracing: Time to Break Up that Huge Rails Application?

RailsConf 2013 is right around the corner! And to celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog post that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby support. If you’re a Rails developer, you know that developing a great web app is a straightforward process. While that offers many advantages, some apps [...]

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New Relic’s Instances Tab

We’ve recently revamped the ‘Instances’ tab, which is a special feature we provide to customers using Heroku’s New Relic addon. The instances tab can be found in the navigation under Monitoring > Instances. Heroku caps the amount of memory application processes can use. Heroku’s docs say if the app instances running within each dyno use [...]

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Using New Relic on Heroku? Read How Our New Ruby Agent Measures Queue Time

Today we released version 3.5.7 of the New Relic Ruby agent, which contains several changes to how Request Queueing is reported. In sum, these changes provide a more accurate interpretation of queue time data for Ruby applications running on Heroku. (For more information on frontend time reporting, please see the documentation in our support site.) [...]

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