Start using New Relic today
If you are a nonprofit looking to level up your Observability skills and monitoring tools, New Relic offers it’s platform for free to all qualifying Nonprofits around the world. Click here to find out how you can signup for our Observability for Good program! New Relic will deliver incredible data insights into your entire tech stack. Don’t let your donation page go down when you need it most. Ensure your website stays up in peak times of volunteering and engagement with donors. New Relic is an observability platform that helps you build better software. You can bring in data from any digital source so that you can fully understand your system, analyze that data efficiently, and respond to incidents before they become problems. As extensive as the capablities of New Relic are, you can get started with the platform by following a three-step procedure.
Need some inspiration first? Check out this intro video.
STEP 1 OF 6
Sign up for New Relic
Does your organization already have New Relic but you’re just adding a new team or project? See Add a new account.
STEP 2 OF 6
Ingest some data
Our guided install auto-discovers your environment, and walks you through a recommended setup. When the infrastructure agent and APM agent are installed, log data is usually also reported (although sometimes manual configuration is necessary).
Watch a video of using the guided install
Manual installation:
If you prefer or require a more manual approach (for example, if you need to deploy at scale), see the options below.
STEP 3 OF 6
Check out some dashboards
Now that you’ve got some data coming in, it’s time to explore your environment in real time with some out-of-the-box UI views. You should see data in the Infrastructure, APM, and Logs UI pages. If you don’t see that, revisit the install instructions or see Not seeing data.
Some tips on understanding those UI pages and more:
- Video: An intro to the platform (2:20)
- APM UI
- Infrastructure UI
- Logs UI
- Distributed tracing UI
- Service maps
- Want to build your own dashboards? To build charts, you’ll need to learn to query your data.
STEP 4 OF 6
Add more data
If you need data from other sources, choose from our hundreds of integrations.
STEP 5 OF 6
Set up alerting
Want to get notifications for issues?
- Set up your first alert.
- Learn about important alerting concepts
- Note that some of the quickstarts come with alerts already set up.
STEP 6 OF 6
Add users
You’re now ready to add the rest of your team to New Relic. Use the User management UI to add users. To learn about the different types of users, see User type. See our tutorial on adding users and managing user access.
If you are a nonprofit organization, looking to level up your Observability tools, 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!
