newrelic

What is newrelic?

The New Relic npm package is a powerful tool for monitoring and managing the performance of your Node.js applications. It provides insights into application performance, error tracking, and user interactions, helping developers to optimize and troubleshoot their applications effectively.

What are newrelic's main functionalities?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

New Relic APM provides detailed insights into the performance of your application, including response times, throughput, and error rates. By simply requiring the New Relic module at the start of your application, it will automatically start monitoring your app's performance.

const newrelic = require('newrelic');

// Your application code here

// New Relic will automatically monitor your app's performance

Custom Instrumentation

Custom instrumentation allows you to monitor specific parts of your application that are not automatically tracked by New Relic. By using the `getTransaction` method, you can create custom transactions and measure their performance.

const newrelic = require('newrelic');

function myCustomFunction() {
  const transaction = newrelic.getTransaction();
  // Your custom code here
  transaction.end();
}

myCustomFunction();

Error Tracking

New Relic provides error tracking capabilities that allow you to capture and report errors that occur in your application. By using the `noticeError` method, you can send error details to New Relic for further analysis.

const newrelic = require('newrelic');

try {
  // Your code that might throw an error
} catch (error) {
  newrelic.noticeError(error);
}

Custom Events

Custom events allow you to send specific events to New Relic for tracking and analysis. By using the `recordCustomEvent` method, you can create and send custom events with associated data.

const newrelic = require('newrelic');

newrelic.recordCustomEvent('MyCustomEvent', {
  key1: 'value1',
  key2: 'value2'
});

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