Why and What about "Newrelic"

[fahad]

Many people use Newrelic . But why ? What are the usefulness of this tool. If i install this will it eat huge amount of my vps resource ... ? And they are offering forever free account with no server limit ... Will they be able to see server datas ? I am just concerned about it ..... Also my privacy as i have to install it by root ....

 

[peterw]

They use newrelic because they don't want to spend time. If you want to monitor the system you need root. If you want to monitor only a web app you do not need root access.

It depends on your view of the company if you trust them or not.

 

[switsys]

I think their 'Lite' service is great.
It won't eat huge amounts of your VPS's resources.
 

 

[gbshouse]

Since our control panel is written in .NET we use NewRelic to monitor it's performance including database queries etc.

Recently upgraded our setup and now also DNS PoPs' performance can be tracted using single web interface.

I think that their product is great maybe beside pricing ...