New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

They call it an "open platform". I don't get it -- what part of their platform is open? The plugins are open source, but that's not their platform.

This has been my main project for months - I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks.

Not had much luck with the two plugins I&#x27;ve tried to install so far:<p>1. The Nginx plugin has a broken init.d script. Not the end of the world, but hardly a plug and play solution.<p>2. The Varnish plugin download is behind a self-signed SSL certificate (which is for a different domain no less). Furthermore the Gems it requires are loaded from a GitHub repository that is no longer available to the public. There simply doesn&#x27;t seem to be a way to get this plugin installed.<p>The install process and software requirements for the plugins also appear to be wildly different. It would be incredible if New Relic provided the ability to install plugins over the command line from a central repository - something as basic as `newrelic install $plugin_name` would be ideal.<p>I really hope that these issues are worked out as I think this platform has real potential. It&#x27;s just unfortunate that the quality of the plugins appears to be far from production ready.

Boy am I glad I didn&#x27;t sign an expensive contract with New Relic recently.

It&#x27;s a step in the right direction - integrating a variety of information sources has always been a key component of our product, Datadog. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datadog.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datadog.com</a><p>It&#x27;s very important to bring the relevant numbers together to get a cohesive view of the current state, as well as be able to correlate between sources to paint the bigger picture.

Does anyone use it with Azure? I tried the trial over a year ago and I felt that the new Azure Management Portal did a fine enough job already. Is there something new here now?<p>I also found this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newrelic.com&#x2F;azure" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newrelic.com&#x2F;azure</a>

Curious how this compares to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scoutapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scoutapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>The big disadvantage I see is that I still need to manually install these plugins on each server, whereas with scount my understanding is it&#x27;s 1 click installs?

I see they have a SendGrid plugin. I&#x27;m looking to track our SendGrid email traffic more in a more granular manner and for longer than native SendGrid supports (they only store for a few days).<p>Does SendGrid via New Relic mean they provide more granular tracking and longer term storage?

Looks pretty cool. While you are building stuff, can you add in dynamic alerts so that I can create alerts around events I care about?