Node VM Metrics View Comes to New Relic APM
By Check out the new runtime metrics for the Node.js VM and a dedicated Node VMs view for analyzing this new data in New Relic APM.
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New Relic Brings APM to Node 7
By New Relic APM has supported Node.js version 7 since shortly after its release in late October 2016.
Continue ReadingAdding and Analyzing Custom Metrics in Node.js
By The New Relic Node.js agent comes with a powerful set of monitoring capabilities, but you can also use custom monitoring for a particular application.
Continue ReadingThe Most Popular Programming Languages of 2016
By Our annual look at the relative popularity of programming languages reveals that while Java still rules, other options—from JavaScript to Go—are catching up.
Continue ReadingRedMonk on the Docker Usage Pattern: Significant Growth & New Directions
By RedMonk analyzes New Relic’s data on which programming languages are being used with Docker, its uptake patterns, and the growth of the Docker community.
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New Relic’s Node Agent Release 1.28.0 Enhances Express Middleware Instrumentation
The New Relic Node.js agent now automatically instruments the performance of Express’ middleware functions—just upgrade your agent and redeploy!
Continue ReadingNew Relic Serves Up Raspberry Pi Beacons to Celebrate Pi Day
By In honor of Pi Day this year, we created simple alert beacons using Raspberry Pi units. Learn how to make your own!
Continue ReadingFutureStack14 Video: Modern Enterprise Technology—From DevOps to Node.Js
By Modern matters. Before Thanksgiving, we rolled out the video of Docker founder Solomon Hykes’ FutureStack14 presentation on the future of modern software. But while containers are important, they’re far from the only element of the future of technology. That’s where Mitchell Hashimoto’s talk on Taming the Modern Data Center and TJ Fontaine presentation on Node.js: Systems…
Continue ReadingSetting Up Custom Instrumentation Using New Relic for Node.js
By The New Relic for Node.js agent has automatic instrumentation for standard web requests, but sometimes that isn’t enough. If you are using web sockets or databases we don’t instrument yet, have background jobs, or have segments of your code that you’d like more insight into, custom instrumentation is for you. Luckily, we’ve added custom instrumentation…
Continue ReadingThe 5 Things Every API Must Have
By When building a Web API, certain features are commonly needed for a baseline implementation. Sometimes these may be specific features built into the framework or they may need to be manually coded. In this post, I’ve compiled the various Node.js libraries, along with the key features, needed for API development. Regardless of API framework or…
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