{"id":174,"date":"2020-05-01T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/?p=174"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T15:40:44","slug":"an-observability-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/2020\/05\/01\/an-observability-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"An Observability Platform, Serverless, and the Smoking Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"

As my colleague James notes in his piece on <\/span>Reframing and Retooling for Observability<\/span><\/a>, New Relic made a clear shift into the observability space with its launch of New Relic One:<\/span><\/p>\n

In September last year New Relic put down a marker that it plans to compete in the market for Observability tools, announcing the New Relic One platform, with an aggressive throw down against newer market entrants.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the weeks before a pandemic made such things impossible, James had the opportunity to sit down at the <\/span>Smoking Goat<\/span><\/a>–his favourite (UK spelling intentional) restaurant–and muse about observability more generally in <\/span>this Opinionated Infrastructure video<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding New Relic One in particular, my colleague Rachel and I had a chance to speak with various folks at New Relic and dig a bit deeper into the platform per se (and its characterization as an “observability platform”); we have also been keeping tabs on New Relic\u2019s activity in the serverless observability space.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Relic One as Observability Platform<\/span><\/h1>\n

Rachel and I formatted our conversations about New Relic One as <\/span>What Is\/How to videos<\/span><\/a>. We recommend watching them in the following order:<\/span><\/p>\n

What is an observability platform? How to extend and customize New Relic One<\/span><\/h2>\n