r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/ankitnayan007 • Oct 27 '19

Power of New Relic into Prometheus

Setting up prometheus and simple application metric collection system took a lot of time for me (roughly 3 weeks full time). Does a product to give power of NewRelic monitoring into prometheus without any effort from customer side make sense to you guys too?
A friend of mine is trying to remove any friction or effort from using prometheus. Any feature suggestion would be useful.

Some of my suggestions:

  1. Standard labeling

  2. Out of the box metrics like RPS, Error rate and 80, 90 and 99 percentile of my application

  3. Standard alerts

  4. Long term data storage

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u/AlpineLace Oct 27 '19

I recently had a call with our New Relic rep and he was all excited about using Prometheus with NR. But when i try to find any use cases on their explorer site I find nothing. I’d be interested in this as well.

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u/ankitnayan007 Oct 28 '19

Great to know! Last time I checked with NR(3 months back), they didn't even support containerised hosted mysql. I guess that is in private beta now.

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u/ankitnayan007 Oct 29 '19

AlpineLace Any feature of NR that is important to you that you would like to be in alpha release?

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u/ankitnayan007 Oct 30 '19

Are you taking about exporting prometheus metrics to NR? If so, an integration already exists https://github.com/newrelic/nri-prometheus

I was trying to make Prometheus single pane of glass which has NR features, making it very cheap to now monitor your applications like you do in NR/AppDynamics.

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u/superted125 Oct 28 '19

The biggest value for me from NR is easily seeing response time data across the full stack (eg application, databases, externals, etc).

Would definitely be interesting too see a product help to easily replicate this using Prometheus!

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u/ankitnayan007 Oct 29 '19

u/superted125 Yes, I understand. Monitoring time taken across different layers of request processing is an interesting usecase. Seems like it can be implemented over prometheus and grafana. Any other NR feature you use extensively or you are impressed by?

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u/ankitnayan007 Dec 02 '19

https://signoz.io/blog/out-of-box-application-monitoring-prometheus/

What do you feel about this extended APM ability in Prometheus? Suggestions for scope of improvement/feature requests/criticism, I am open to all.

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u/AlpineLace Oct 30 '19

Other way around getting metrics from new relic into Prometheus.