[LRUG] [Help] Alternatives to NewRelic

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

I'd be interested to know how you've decided to scale your "hosts"

As I understand newrelic's concept of a "host" is more or less a server.
(whereas skylight charges per request)

So I'd be inclined to say "have fewer larger instances"

(There's a queueing theory argument for the same thing too,
see the rapgenius saga with heroku from a couple of years ago)

But I also like Sam's suggestion: "put new relic on a subset of machines"



On 28 May 2015 at 20:56, Seb Jacobs <seb.jacobs at futurelearn.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> At FutureLearn we have been using NewRelic since before we launched back
> in October 2013,
> however it's getting to the point where we can no longer justify paying
> for NewRelic.
>
> * What do we currently use NewRelic for? *
>
> + Identifying slow controller actions/SQL queries
> + Monitoring slow background jobs
> + Identifying deployments which may have effected specific page generation
> times.
> + Monitoring page generation times
> + Monitoring page load times
> + Monitoring general throughput and servers (used for Capacity planning)
>
> I am currently in the process of evaluating alternative services to
> NewRelic, and although in theory a combination of services such as
> AppSignal, Skylight.io and ServerDensity might be able to meet the more
> general use cases I have been unable to find any which feel quite right.
>
> I was wondering if any fellow LRUGers have come across any NewRelic-like
> services which fit these particular needs, and work out cheaper overall.
>
> It might be worth noting that we are currently hesitant to go down the
> path of reducing the number of instances running NewRelic as this will make
> our infrastructure considerably more complicated to manage.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> --
>
> Seb Jacobs
> Web Developer
> FutureLearn
> E: seb.jacobs at futurelearn.com <james.coglan at futurelearn.com>
>
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