By completing this course, learners will:

• Install and configure New Relic agents.

• Collect APM metrics for apps and services.

• Use distributed tracing to analyze performance bottlenecks.

• Monitor infrastructure, containers, and Kubernetes.

• Build dashboards and configure alert policies.

• Integrate observability with DevOps workflows.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction to New Relic

• What is New Relic?

• Observability vs monitoring

• New Relic One platform overview

Module 2: Setup & Instrumentation

• Installing New Relic agents (Java, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go)

• Instrumenting web and microservices apps

• Collecting APM data

• Basic troubleshooting

Module 3: Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

• Transactions and throughput

• Error tracking and analysis

• Service maps and dependencies

• Performance tuning

Module 4: Distributed Tracing

• What is distributed tracing?

• Configuring tracing across microservices

• Root cause analysis with traces

• Analyzing latency and bottlenecks

Module 5: Infrastructure & Logs

• Monitoring infrastructure and servers

• Container and Kubernetes monitoring

• Log collection and analysis

• Cloud platform integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Module 6: Dashboards & Alerts

• Creating custom dashboards

• Querying data with NRQL (New Relic Query Language)

• Configuring alerts and notifications

• Incident response workflows

Module 7: Browser & Mobile Monitoring

• Monitoring frontend performance

• Real User Monitoring (RUM)

• Mobile APM with New Relic SDKs

• Tracking user sessions

Module 8: Integrations & Ecosystem

• CI/CD pipeline integration

• Slack, PagerDuty, and Jira integrations

• OpenTelemetry support

• Security and compliance features

Module 9: Real-World Projects

• Monitoring a microservices-based e-commerce app

• Building an SRE dashboard with custom KPIs

• Debugging Kubernetes workloads with New Relic

• End-to-end observability in CI/CD

Module 10: Best Practices & Future Trends

• Scaling observability in enterprises

• Governance and access control

• Observability-driven development (ODD)

• The future of APM and AI-powered insights

Learners will receive a Certificate of Completion from Uplatz, validating their expertise in New Relic and observability practices. This certification demonstrates readiness for roles in software engineering, DevOps, and site reliability.

New Relic skills prepare learners for roles such as:

• Application Performance Engineer

• DevOps Engineer

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• Cloud Engineer

• Observability Specialist

New Relic is being widely adopted across enterprises, SaaS companies, and cloud-native organizations to ensure reliability and performance, making it a strong career skill.

1. What is New Relic?
A full-stack observability and APM platform for monitoring applications, infrastructure, and user experience.

2. How does New Relic differ from traditional monitoring tools?
It provides end-to-end observability with distributed tracing, logs, metrics, and dashboards, not just server monitoring.

3. What is NRQL?
New Relic Query Language, used to query telemetry data for custom dashboards and alerts.

4. How does distributed tracing help?
It tracks requests across microservices, helping identify performance bottlenecks and root causes.

5. What can you monitor with New Relic?
Applications, infrastructure, logs, containers, Kubernetes clusters, browser sessions, and mobile apps.

6. Can New Relic integrate with CI/CD pipelines?
Yes, it integrates with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, and other CI/CD tools for automated observability.

7. What are the benefits of New Relic?

• Real-time monitoring

• End-to-end observability

• Wide integrations

• Powerful alerting and dashboards

8. What are challenges with New Relic?

• Licensing costs for large-scale deployments

• Learning curve for NRQL and advanced features

• Data volume management

9. How does New Relic support Kubernetes monitoring?
Through New Relic Kubernetes integration, collecting pod, node, and cluster-level metrics with dashboards.

10. Where is New Relic being adopted?
By enterprises, SaaS companies, and cloud-native teams to monitor apps, microservices, and infrastructure at scale.