Creating custom Dashboards in New Relic is super duper easy breezy!

We provide many curated views and dashboards out of the box, but you’ll likely want to create your own custom dashboards to keep an eye on business-relevant metrics or specific projects. Creating custom charts and dashboards begins with querying your data.

Our query language, NRQL, is a SQL-like language that gives you the power to see and create queries.

For better querying, and optimal value from New Relic, it will help to have a strong understanding of how your New Relic data is organized.

• Each of your “entities” (like a host, agent or dashboard) is identified by a unique id.
• Data on entities is collected under events found in the New Relic data dictionary.
• Some tags are automatically applied to your monitored entities, and you can add your own custom tags to organize data.
• If you want to add more fine-grained detail, like capturing user names or other high-cardinality values, we recommend using custom attributes or creating custom events.

Entities are building blocks to our system views including:

• Workloads: A group of related entities. Provides an aggregated view of the health and activity of the entities in the workload.
• Service maps: Connections between entities. Automatically created by New Relic based on what we can infer from your telemetry.

In addition to events you can use, APM reports metric data in the form of metric timeslice data. You can also use NRQL to query, facet, and alert on this type of data. To explore timeslice data in metrics and events, see Explore your metrics.

Not sure where to get started? Complete a system health evaluation and we’ll recommend next steps!

If you are a nonprofit organization, looking to level up your Observability tools, sign up for a free account here:

https://newrelic.com/social-impact/signup

New Relic offers free tools and full platform features along with 1TB of free monthly data injest and 5 user accounts to all qualifying global nonprofit customers! Just email us at hgruber(at)newrelic(dot)com to find out more!