New Relic announced general availability of a new service that provides the most comprehensive and advanced code-level monitoring for Node.js, one of the industry’s hottest frameworks that supports highly interactive, real-time applications.
The New Relic service for Node.js framework will be broadly available to customers directly through its website and through strategic relationships with CloudBees, Engine Yard, Joyent, and Windows Azure, all which have strong ties with the Node.js developer community.
New Relic made the announcement at its FutureStack13 conference, alongside a series of innovations in software analytics, mobile and web application performance management.
With this release, New Relic delivers the only APM solution for Node.js where the user can view the overall health of applications from an aggregate response time dashboard and also drill down into code-level data.
The addition of Node.js support also sets New Relic apart as the only SaaS solution with a single, integrated view alongside web and mobile application monitoring for five other languages, server monitoring and plugins.
The Node.js framework enables web applications to be built using the traditional, front-end coding language JavaScript on the back end of the server, enabling the creation of powerful and fast applications. Retail e-commerce, consumer Internet, online gaming, social media and mobile app developers have been among the first industries to adopt Node.js – a server-side, JavaScript programming framework regarded for its ability to support large volumes of asynchronous events. Proving the popularity of the framework, more than 10,000 New Relic users have signed up to learn more about the service.
Some popular Node.js uses include:
- Chat applications that run across distributed devices
- Data streaming, i.e., real-time audio or video
- Real-time game playing with tens of thousands of concurrent users
- Powering API services for both web and mobile applications
Typically, the event-driven, asynchronous and non-blocking I/O features in the powerful coding framework Node.js can also present unique challenges in performance monitoring. New Relic has addressed those challenges through the creation of a customized agent - from the ground up - with advanced capabilities such as:
- End-to-end transaction traces
- Alerts and notifications
- Application maps
- Code-level diagnostics
- Database transactions
- Error tracking to quickly identify problem areas
- Performance visibility across the entire app, including third party APIs, web services
- Reporting for SLA, availability, scalability and more
The New Relic agent requires no additional instrumentation for the most popular Node.js frameworks, which are:
- Express (2/3)
- Restify
- Connect
The New Relic agent also supports the following databases:
- MongoDB
- mySQL
- Redis
- Memcached
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