The alerts in New Relic have always been an essential feature for our customers, starting in the early days when we watched only web applications through the evolution of availability monitoring and server alerting. Coming next, though, is the biggest improvement to alerting yet. In this talk we'll cover the latest features with special insights and pro-tips, as well as an inside look at the new policy based features. Get ready to take your alerts to a whole new level.
62. Notification Groups
Define a set of notification
channels for use across multiple
policies
Include e-mail addresses,
PagerDuty services, HipChat
rooms, etc
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86. ‘Alarm fatigue’
worries hospitals
“...a patient’s life could be hanging in the balance.”
San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2013
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104. Alerts V2: Summary of Improvements
Alert Policies
Notification Channels
Notification Groups
Server Downtime
Lag time setting
New API
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105. What do we expect from alerting?
Get the right people involved at the
appropriate time
Use well defined notification channels
Group channels together for easy re-use
Take advantage of PagerDuty
High signal, low noise
Alert on key transactions
Edit lag times
Distinguishing critical and caution problems
Adjusting apdex T
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106. What do we expect from alerting
Flexibility
Define policies according to specific operational
requirements
Use defaults, define overrides
API for integration, management and auditing
Simplicity
Watch only the things you care about most
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107. Migrating to use Alert Policies
Accounts will be upgraded in November
One policy will be created for each application and key transaction
One policy will be created for each unique set of threshold settings across all servers
Existing alert behavior is preserved
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