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New Relic is a software observability platform founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, initially associated with software-as-a-service application performance monitoring. Its tools collect and analyze telemetry such as metrics, events, logs, and distributed traces to help engineering and operations teams understand applications and infrastructure. The platform is used to investigate errors, latency, service dependencies, user experience, and the operational effects of software releases across a technology stack.

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What is the New Relic platform primarily used for?

New Relic is a cloud-based software observability platform used by engineering and IT operations teams to monitor the performance of their applications and infrastructure. It collects telemetry data—such as metrics, logs, events, and distributed traces—to help teams find and fix software bugs and outages.

Who founded New Relic?

New Relic was founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, a software engineer who previously created the application monitoring tool Wily Introscope. Cirne pioneered the concept of delivering Application Performance Monitoring (APM) as a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product.

What is the New Relic One platform?

New Relic One is the company's unified, cloud-based interface that integrates all of its telemetry and data analysis tools into a single entity. It allows engineering teams to query their system data using NRQL (New Relic Query Language) to visualize complex architectural health.

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