Backend and Infrastructure

Overview: New Relic as a Drupal Performance Monitor for Drupal 8, 9, and 10

New Relic is a monitoring service that provides insights into your application stack from front-end performance to the server and infrastructure metrics. New Relic uses a combination of aggregating server logs, and pre-built (or custom) monitors to track the metrics that are most important to your application. The collected data can be organized into custom dashboards, and alerts can be set up and issued per customizable conditions.

In this tutorial, we'll:

  • Learn about different New Relic modules and their purpose
  • Review some default dashboard components and reports
  • Discuss how to use the information in New Relic to understand the health of your Drupal application

By the end of this tutorial, you should understand the basics of using New Relic and the insights it offers to monitor and improve the performance of your Drupal site.